Hypnotherapy for Pain Management
Pain is an extremely common side effect of numerous illnesses and ailments. Each person will experience pain in a different way and at a different level. It is an essential element in our survival. In fact, acute pain is our body’s way of telling us we are being damaged and we’d better do something about it. Moderate pain can be worse than mild pain to the point that it interferes with function and can’t be ignored during daily life and will also require stronger medication than mild. Severe pain interferes strongly with daily activities and may confine the sufferer to bed rest. This pain does not go away over time and instead requires continuous treatment.
Hypnotherapy can be effective in easing cancer pain, pain related to burns, and rheumatoid arthritis. It has been also used by many to manage numerous instances of pain, including irritable bowel syndrome, sciatica, spinal stenosis, burns, joint pain, neck pain and a variety of other injuries and illnesses.
How Hypnotherapy works for pain
Hypnotherpy is likely to be effective for most people suffering from diverse forms of pain. Hypnosis used for pain control and pain management offers help where medication and alternative medicine have failed. The pain killers that reside in your body are responsible for the pain that a person experience. These natural pain killers are endorphins. Endorphin is the name for one of the brain’s neurotransmitters. Pain management hypnotherapy can access this natural endorphin in your body and train your mind to access and activate the appropriate neurotransmitter to reduce the pain that you feel
When you are in hypnosis, you are in a relaxed, calm and very focused state of mind where you are open to receiving positive suggestions. By being in a state of focused concentration on an pleasant and positive image, the centers for pain seem to get blocked from receiving signals from the source of pain. Consequently a person will either feel very little pain or none at all.
Hypnotherapy may either be used alone or in combination depending on your individual circumstances and the specialist areas of your practitioner. As well as using certain hypnotherapy techniques such as suggestion hypnotherapy, analytical hypnotherapy and visualisation, some practitioners may also use Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Psychotherapy to enhance their treatment.
If you have a problem with pain that your doctor can’t seem to solve for you, even through medication, consult a hypnotherapist to get to the bottom of its cause.
