Living with Chronic, Debilitating Pain?

Help could be at hand……

By using distraction techniques and the efficacious benefits of trance, you can relax more completely and learn to block the pain signals in your body.

This doesn’t mean necessarily that the cause of the pain is cured…..but it does open up opportunities for your unconscious mind to assist the body in working on the healing process.

Let’s take a closer look at pain ……

Pain is a signal, an event that must be noticed and interpreted before it turns into suffering. So pain control involves learning to not notice the signal at all - or learning to interpret it in a different perhaps more passive way. In reality it amounts to a process of noticing something else instead….a distraction, for instance, or deep absorption in some other activity, or focus on other events.

When a pain signal is noticed, some of the associated interpreted suffering has an emotional context such as fear or anger or surprise. Sometimes fear of pain can be more than the actual pain itself.

Medication

Taking medication does not “kill” pain, it merely masks it by putting us either in a state of mind where we no longer think about pain or care about it, or by inhibiting the signal itself.

Heeding the danger signs

The pain signal can be meaningful and relevant or have no value. It could be an alarm indicating something physically is wrong, tissue is being damaged or destroyed, and we need to attend to the causes.

Acute and Chronic Pain

Finally pain can be short-term or long term. Short term pain which has not risen out of danger or alarm can often be managed in a straightforward way. This might be child birth, surgery or dental work – where the outcome is positive and well formed and the duration of the pain is finite. Long term or chronic pain however carries with it the memory of past pain and the anticipation of future pain. It can take over the whole body and dominate a person’s existence.

So – whatever your threshold may be – the building blocks of pain management are there for you to utilize (with practice) whenever you need them. Learn to not notice the signals or to interpret them in an emotion free and benign way.

How many times do sports persons, especially in contact sports, notice nagging injuries for the first time after the event in which they were totally absorbed?.
Next time you have a hangover or banging headache, try filling the well under your tongue with saliva for a short period of time - and then notice where your headache symptoms have gone.
How much of a white knuckle ride for you is visiting the dentist? Try this for next time. Practice and install an abdominal breathing cycle linked to some calm and reassuring affirmations. Then next visit breathe deeply and regularly getting into a totally relaxed light trance state. It’ll be almost a pleasure!!

Not just for sports injuries........

Another added benefit is that through pain management techniques you can advance to a state where your unconscious will be enabled and entreated to work towards helping you recover from injury. If this might be of benefit to you then call me for a consultation (see contacts page)

Peter Wright Hypnotherapy

Online and throughout South and West England