No Pain – No Gain

The adage “no pain, no gain” just is not true. Remember all of the times pain has hindered you from joining activities that you enjoy – perhaps playing tennis, running, fishing 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, 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 where messages can reach the unconscious mind more easily. The state of hypnosis is characterized by deep relaxation. In fact, with regular practice of a hypnotherapy pain elimination regimen, you will feel much more serene over all.

Pain – A signal that something’s wrong

Pain is a signal that something in your body is wrong. So pain is technically a positive thing. But after you have your physician check you out to ensure that the pain is not indicative of 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’t “get stuck” in a hypnotic state. The worst that would ever happen when you use hypnotherapy for pain elimination is that you might fall into a natural state of sleep for a half hour- think of all of the times that discomfort has prevented you from getting sleep!

This isn’t to say that a self-hypnosis pain management system is similar to sleep, because that is the leading misunderstanding about hypnosis. When you are asleep, you’re unconscious. If you are unconscious, 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.

Program your body

Despite being consciously aware of everything, self-hypnosis pain management programs can help both mental and physical causes and present many successful avenues to eradicate pain. Medications simply block the reception of the physical feeling of pain briefly, but self-hypnosis pain regimens can actually diminish the amount and strength of pain signals that you sense. You can literally reprogram your body to distribute 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 chemicals that are created in the brain. They are the chemicals that cause athletes to have a high when they workout very hard. Using hypnotherapy, you can also discover how to program your brain to generate pain-relieving endorphins on demand and then distribute 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 completed under hypnoanesthesia.

Hypnosis can also work to program the mind to focus your attention away from pain, and that will make you perceive far less discomfort. Further, hypnosis self-hypnosis pain management recordings can help our mind know and understand that the pain is there, but not to let us experience it. A qualified hypnotherapist will understand how to fully address additional hypnotic suggestions that will facilitate your recovery.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming

A very effective hypnosis pain remedy lies in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. No doubt that after living with chronic pain, you may be doubtful that a self-hypnosis pain program will help. In a lot of cases, NLP methods actually work better for modern thinkers than traditional hypnosis does because it was created for people like you who are taught to question and analyze everything. When we analyze, we tend to put 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 anxiety is known as the “Flash.” This methodology reprograms the mind to use thoughts that create stress to actually trigger thoughts that cause feelings of relaxation in their place. After you have used this practice, it will be difficult or impossible to think the thoughts that upset you, because your unconscious mind will immediately and automatically exchange them in a Flash for thoughts that relax you instead.

Pain relief and hypnosis go hand in hand. If you’re exhausted from coping with prescriptions that leave you incompetent 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 clients with hypnosis pain management since 1978. A famous authority in the hypnosis field, he offers headache and migraine hypnosis & NLP CDs and free self-hypnosis resources on his Neuro-VISION website