Using Hypnosis for Medication-Free Pain
Control
Virtually everyone experiences major chronic
or acute pain sometime during their lifetime. Once the source of pain is
known and you are working
with your health practitioner to remedy the problem, the pain no longer
serves its purpose and can safely be controlled. Generally people turn to
various pain control medications, weather
over-the-counter or a prescriptions, to relieve unnecessary pain. But
sometimes the side effects of
medication are almost as bad as the pain
itself. You might get an upset stomach from aspirin or other pain relievers,
or become addicted to
something your doctor prescribed. Or perhaps you
simply prefer not to use any drugs of any sort.
Hypnosis and Pain
Hypnosis is one of the most natural
alternatives to drugs for controlling pain. It works because the mind and
body are connected: what is done
to one affects the other.
Here's an example - Think about biting into a slice of lemon, Really imagine
the tart taste as the cool juice squirts onto
your tongue, What happened? Did your saliva start to flow? Your thoughts caused your body's reaction.
Similarly your expectation determines
the extent of your pain. If you expect pain with a certain procedure - like dental treatment for example - you will
be prepared for pain and
will experience it strongly, no matter how careful your dentist is. In other words it is your brain - your mind - that gives
meaning to pain.
How to Reprogram Pain
Just as expectation can strengthen your experience of pain, your mind can
moderate pain. Using hypnosis, you can reprogram how your body
reacts to a painful situation. There are several ways this reprogramming can
work. Here are a few of them.
Imagery can help stimulate the release of endorphins into
your body. Visualization of what you want to have happen seems to trigger
the
correct physical response in your body. Under hypnosis you can visualize
soothing, healing endorphins reducing the pain. As you do so your
pain will lessen and may even completely disappear.
Deep relaxation can help relieve pain. Some painful
conditions, such as headaches or IBS, are aggravated by stress and therefore
can be
eased by relaxation alone. Even those conditions that are not directly
stress-related can be helped with relaxation. Pain causes your muscles
to tense up, and the tension makes the pain worse. You may have noticed that
an injection hurts less when you're relaxed than when you're
tense.
Since anticipation of pain makes it worse, hypnosis can help
relieve your fear of pain if you are facing a situation that could be
painful,
such as natural childbirth. If you go into the procedure relaxed, without
fear, and with confidence in your ability to handle the situation, it will
be much less painful.
One of the most interesting ways to reduce pain is metaphor
intervention, which involves treating the pain as if it were an object and
describing it's characteristics, such as it's shape, size, colour, texture,
and temperature. When it is clearly defined you imagine transforming
it into something else, often the metaphor's opposite. Within a few minutes
after you finish the exercise your pain will be much reduced, if
not gone altogether.
Snoring
The act of
respiring through the open mouth so that the currents of inspired and
expired air cause a vibration of the uvula and soft palate,
thus giving rise to a sound more or less harsh.
Once any suggestion of an organic condition had been ruled
out by a doctor, hypnotherapy can be utilised to help the sufferer to find
their
own way of sleeping peacefully and quietly or, if the sufferer is not the
snorer, but the snorer's partner, then it is the partner who can be
helped - by learning to appreciate and enjoy the deep relaxation that the
snorer is demonstrating.
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