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The axiom "no pain, no gain" just is not true. Reflect on all of the times pain has stopped you from engaging in activities that you enjoy - perhaps running, playing tennis, fishing and even sitting can be impossible when you are in 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 the case, then the cure is in your head, too. With hypnotherapy, pain can vanish. 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 self-hypnosis pain elimination regimen, you will find yourself much more calm over all. Pain is a signal that something in your body is wrong. So pain is actually a beneficial thing. But once you have your doctor give you a check up to make sure that the pain is not indicating a harmful condition such as a tumor, it is time to manage or even eliminate the pain. There is no threat in a self-hypnosis pain relief program. You cannot "get stuck" in a hypnotic state. The worst that might happen when you use self-hypnosis for pain reduction is that you could fall into a natural state of sleep for 20 or 30 minutes- think of all of the times that discomfort has kept you from sleeping! This is not to say that a self-hypnosis pain management system is similar to sleep, which is the leading misconception about hypnosis. If you are asleep, you are unconscious. If you are not conscious, then you cannot hear anything. If you cannot hear anything, then the hypnotherapist cannot assist you. In truth, hypnosis is actually a state of keen awareness. Even though you are consciously aware of everything, self-hypnosis pain management programs can help both physical and mental causes and introduce many effective avenues to do away with pain. Medicines simply block the reception of the physical symptoms of pain on a temporary basis, but self-hypnosis pain regimens can actually diminish the amount and strength of pain signals that you perceive. 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 in many cases no prescriptions at all. Endorphins are opiate-like chemicals that are created in the brain. They are the compounds that cause athletes to have a high when they workout intensely. Using self-hypnosis, you can also discover how to program your brain to create pain-relieving endorphins on demand and then send them to the painful area where they are required. Thanks to endorphins, the brain is capable of inducing analgesia, which is a light anesthesia, as well as complete anesthesia (numbness). Medical journals are full of reports 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, which will help you perceive far less discomfort. Further, self-hypnosis pain management programs can help our mind know and comprehend that the pain is there, but not to let us experience it. A certified hypnotherapist will be familiar with how to completely address additional hypnotic suggestions that will aid in your recovery. A highly effective hypnosis pain remedy comes from Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. No doubt that after living with chronic pain, you may be cynical that a self-hypnosis pain program will help. In a lot of cases, NLP techniques actually are more successful for modern thinkers than traditional hypnosis does because it was created for people like you who are conditioned 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 stress is known as the "Flash." This method reprograms the mind to use mental images that create stress to actually trigger thoughts that cause feelings of relaxation instead. After you have tried this practice, it will be difficult or impossible to think the thoughts that trouble you, because your mind will immediately and automatically exchange them in a Flash for thoughts that relax you instead. Hypnotherapy and pain relief go hand in hand. If you are exhausted from coping with prescriptions that leave you incapable of driving or to fully experience life, or worse, of living with the throbbing, stabbing or shooting pulsations of discomfort, a hypnosis pain elimination program can provide safe, natural and instantaneous relief.
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Alan B. Densky, CH has been helping people with hypnosis pain management since 1978. A familiar authority in the hypnosis field, he offers headache and migraine hypnotherapy & NLP CDs and free hypnotherapy resources on his Neuro-VISION website. www.neuro-vision.us/
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