About Pain Management
Pain is like a burglar alarm. It alerts us that there is a an immediate problem.
What can we do with the pain which, like the burglar alarm that can’t be disconnected, continues to irritate us? The sources of many types of pain can be chronic or ongoing. Migraine headaches, back pain, arthritis are among the types of chronic pain that people suffer.
It is possible to control any type of non-useful pain while leaving your alarm system intact. It is very important that when managing pain that we still experience some sensation that is alerting us to a new problem.
How Hypnosis Can Help
Hypnosis can help you to learn to control unwanted, unnecessary pain, but still experience the sensation that is alerting you to the fact that there is a problem. Some pain, even pain of long duration and deep intensity, will be positively changed with the use of hypnosis. Most commonly, relief from pain occurs in the ?rst few sessions. Some people notice that their pain subsides immediately while others feel results hours after their hypnosis session. Relaxation in many cases will relieve considerable amounts of pain. Muscle tension puts pressure on nerves and aggravates discomfort. So easing your tension is the often the first goal in dealing with pain. Hypnosis allows you to leave intact your alarm systems and allows you to reduce only the unnecessary hurt or pain. Hypnosis can help you to control your pain by substituting another sensation such as warmth for the pain or utilising your imagination to physically place the pain elsewhere in the body where the intensity is less.
Other helpful hypnotic suggestions to assist pain relief may include:
- that when pain occurs, time will pass quickly while during pain
free intervals time will pass slowly. - to imagine a control panel and turn down the level of pain.
- giving the pain an imaginary shape color and sound that is
pleasant. - to transfer feeling such as numbness to those areas of pain.