The saying “no pain, no gain” just isn’t true. Reflect on all of the times pain has hindered you from joining activities that you enjoy – perhaps running, playing tennis, fishing and even sitting can be impossible when you’re in great discomfort. Have you gained anything from missing out on memories?
However, the adage that “Pain is all in your head” can, actually, be true. If that is the case, then the cure is all in your head, too. With self-hypnosis, pain can evaporate. Despite what you may believe, hypnosis is simply a mental state during which messages can connect with the unconscious more easily. The state of hypnosis is characterized by deep relaxation. In fact, with regular practice of a self-hypnosis pain elimination regimen, you will feel much more serene over all.
Pain is a signal that something in your body is amiss. So pain is technically a positive thing. But once you have your doctor check you out to ensure that the pain isn’t indicating a harmful condition such as a tumor, it’s time to manage or even eliminate the pain.
There is no risk in a hypnotherapeutic pain relief program. You can not “get stuck” in a hypnotic state. The worst that might happen when you use self-hypnosis for pain elimination is that you might fall into a natural sleep state for 20 or 30 minutes- think of all of the times that pain has kept you from getting sleep!
This isn’t to say that a hypnotherapeutic pain management system is the same as sleep, which is the biggest misconception about hypnosis. If you are asleep, you are unconscious. If you are not conscious, then you cannot hear anything. If you can’t hear anything, then a hypnotherapist cannot help you. In truth, hypnosis is actually a state of keen awareness.
Despite being consciously aware of everything, hypnotherapeutic pain management programs can tackle both mental and physical causes and introduce many successful avenues to eradicate pain. Drugs merely block the reception of the physical symptoms of pain briefly, but hypnotherapeutic pain regimens can actually diminish the amount and strength of pain signals that you perceive. You can literally reprogram your body to send less pain-inducing chemicals to your receptors. This means that you can use fewer pain killing drugs, or frequently no medications at all.
Endorphins are opiate-like substances that are created in the brain. They are the chemicals that cause athletes to feel high when they workout very hard. Using self-hypnosis, you can also discover how to program your brain to make pain-relieving endorphins on demand and then send them to the painful area where they are required.
Because of endorphins, the brain is capable of inducing analgesia, which is a light anesthesia, as well as full anesthesia (numbness). Medical journals are full of reports both in pre-anesthesia days, as well as in modern times, when invasive surgery has been done under hypnoanesthesia.
Hypnosis can also be used to program the mind to focus your attention away from pain, which will help you perceive much less discomfort. Additionally, hypnosis hypnotherapeutic pain management programs can help our mind recognize and comprehend that the pain is there, but not to let us suffer from it. A qualified hypnotherapist will be familiar with how to completely address other hypnotic suggestions that will facilitate your recovery.
A very effective hypnosis pain remedy lies in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. No doubt that after living with chronic pain, you may be cynical that a hypnotherapeutic pain program will get the job done. In a lot of cases, NLP techniques actually work better for modern thinkers than traditional hypnosis does because it was developed for people like you who are conditioned to question and analyze everything. When we analyze, we tend to put up barriers to the acceptance of post-hypnotic suggestions.
Feelings of stress always make us perceive far more pain than we are actually experiencing. One of the most successful NLP patterns for eliminating anxiety is known as the “Flash.” This technique reprograms the mind to use mental images that create stress to actually trigger thoughts that cause feelings of relaxation instead. After you’ve used this practice, it will be difficult or impossible to think the thoughts that distress you, because your unconscious mind will immediately and automatically exchange them in a Flash for thoughts that relax you instead.
Pain relief and self hypnosis go hand in hand. If you’re exhausted from coping with prescriptions that render you incompetent to drive or to fully experie life, or worse, of living with the shooting, stabbing or throbbing pulsations of discomfort, a hypnosis pain elimination program can provide safe, natural and instantaneous relief.
Alan B. Densky, CH has been helping people with hypnosis in pain management since 1978. A well-known authority in the hypnotherapy field, he offers headache and migraine hypnosis & NLP CDs and free self-hypnosis resources on his Neuro-VISION website.
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