The proverb "no pain, no gain" just isn't true. Reflect on all of the times pain has hindered you from participating in activities that you enjoy - perhaps partaking in sports and even sitting can be impossible when you're in pain. Did you gain anything from missing out on memories?
However, the saying that "Pain is all in your head" can, often, be true. If that is so, then the cure is in your head, too. With self-hypnosis, pain can disappear completely. Despite what you may think, 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 hypnotherapy pain elimination regimen, you will find yourself much more calm over all.
Pain is a signal that something in your body is amiss. So pain is actually a beneficial thing. But after you have your medical practitioner give you a check up to make sure that the pain isn't indicating a harmful condition such as a tumor, it is time to manage or even eliminate the pain.
There is no threat in a hypnotherapy pain relief program. You can not "get stuck" in a hypnotic state. The worst that might happen when you use hypnotherapy for pain elimination is that you might fall into a natural sleep state for a half hour- think of all of the times that pain has prevented you from sleeping!
This is not to say that a hypnotherapy pain management system is the same as sleep, because that is the biggest misconception about hypnosis. If you are asleep, you are unconscious. If you are not conscious, then you can't hear anything. If you can't hear anything, then a hypnotherapist can't assist you. In truth, hypnosis is actually a state of keen awareness.
Despite being consciously aware of everything, hypnotherapy pain management programs can help both physical and mental causes and lead to many effective avenues to eradicate pain. Drugs merely block the reception of the physical feeling of pain on a temporary basis, but hypnotherapy pain regimens can actually diminish the amount and strength of pain signals that you perceive. You can literally reprogram your body to distribute less pain-inducing chemicals to your receptors. This means that you can use fewer pain killing medications, or frequently no medications at all.
Endorphins are opiate-like compounds that are created in the brain. They are the compounds that cause athletes to have a high when they workout intensely. Using hypnotherapy, you can also discover how to program your brain to create pain-relieving endorphins on demand and then distribute them to the painful body part where they are required.
Because of endorphins, the brain is capable of inducing analgesia, which is a mild 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, and that will help you perceive much less discomfort. Further, hypnosis hypnotherapy pain management programs can help our mind know and understand that the pain is present, but not to let us feel it. A certified hypnosis pain relief professional will be familiar with how to completely address additional hypnotic suggestions that will facilitate your recovery.
A very effective hypnosis pain remedy lies in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. No doubt that after coping with chronic pain, you may be skeptical that a hypnotherapy pain program will get the job done. In many cases, NLP methods actually work far better for modern thinkers than traditional hypnosis does because it was created for people like you who are conditioned to question and analyze everything. When we analyze, we tend to throw up barriers to the acceptance of post-hypnotic suggestions.
Tense feelings always make us perceive far more pain than we are actually experiencing. One of the most powerful NLP patterns for eliminating stress is known as the "Flash." This methodology reprograms the unconscious to use mental images that create stress to actually trigger thoughts that create feelings of relaxation in their place. After you've tried this technique, it will be difficult or impossible to think the thoughts that distress you, because your mind will instantly 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 medications that leave you incapable of driving or to fully experie life, or worse, of living with the stabbing, shooting 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 self-hypnosis pain relief 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
