Self Hypnosis Pain Reduction CDs
The axiom “no pain, no gain” just is not true. Think of all of the times pain has stopped you from joining activities that you enjoy - perhaps partaking in sports and even sitting can be unbearable when you are in great pain. Did you gain anything from missing out on memories?
However, the saying that “Pain is all in your head” can, in fact, be correct. If that is so, then the cure is in your head, also. With self hypnosis, pain can completely disappear. Despite what you may think, hypnosis is simply a mental state where messages can reach 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 calm over all.
Pain is a signal that something in your body is not right. So pain is technically a positive thing. But after you have your medical practitioner check you out to ensure that the pain is not signaling a harmful condition such as a tumor, it’s time to manage or even eliminate the pain.
There is no danger in a self-hypnosis pain relief program. You can not “get stuck” in a state of hypnosis. The worst that might happen when you use self-hypnosis for pain reduction is that you might fall into a natural state of sleep for 20 or 30 minutes- think of all of the times that discomfort has prevented you from getting sleep!
This is not to say that a self-hypnosis pain management system is the same as sleep, which is the major misunderstanding about hypnosis. When you are asleep, you are unconscious. If you are unconscious, then you cannot hear anything. If you can’t hear anything, then a hypnotherapist cannot assist you. Hypnosis is actually a state of keen awareness.
Even though you are consciously aware of everything, self-hypnosis pain management programs can address both physical and mental causes and lead to many successful avenues to eradicate pain. Medications just block the reception of the physical symptoms of pain temporarily, but self-hypnosis pain regimens can actually lessen the amount and strength of pain signals that you sense. 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 drugs at all.
Endorphins are opiate-like substances that are manufactured in the brain. They are the elements that cause athletes to get a high when they workout intensely. Using self-hypnosis, you can also learn how to program your brain to create pain-relieving endorphins on demand and then send them to the painful part of your body 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 accounts both in pre-anesthesia days, as well as in modern times, when major 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 make you perceive far less discomfort. Additionally, hypnosis self-hypnosis pain management programs can help our mind recognize and comprehend that the pain is there, but not to let us feel it. A qualified hypnosis pain relief professional will understand how to completely address other hypnotic suggestions that will assist in your recovery.
A highly effective hypnosis pain remedy lies in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. No doubt that after dealing with chronic pain, you may be skeptical that a self-hypnosis pain program will get the job done. In many cases, NLP techniques actually are more successful for modern thinkers than traditional hypnosis does because it was developed for people like you who are brought up to analyze and question everything. When we analyze, we tend to construct 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 stress is known as the “Flash.” This tool reprograms the unconscious mind to use thoughts that create stress to actually trigger thoughts that create feelings of relaxation in their place. After you’ve tried this practice, it will be difficult or impossible to think the thoughts that trouble you, because your unconscious will immediately and automatically exchange them in a Flash for thoughts that relax you instead.
Self hypnosis and pain relief go hand in hand. If you are tired of coping with prescriptions that render you in no condition to drive or to fully experie life, or worse, of living with the throbbing, stabbing or shooting pulsations of discomfort, a hypnosis pain elimination program can offer safe, natural and instantaneous relief.
Alan B. Densky, CH has been helping people with hypnosis pain control 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.
- Alan B. Densky, CH