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The saying “no pain, no gain” simply is not true. Reflect on all of the times pain has stopped you from partaking in activities that you enjoy - perhaps fishing, running, playing tennis 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, often, be correct. If that is the case, then the cure is in your head, also. With hypnotherapy, pain can completely disappear. Despite what you may think, 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 hypnosis pain elimination regimen, you will find yourself much more tranquil over all.

Pain indicates that something in your body is wrong. So pain is actually a positive thing. But after you have your medical practitioner give you a check up to ensure that the pain is not signaling a dangerous condition like a tumor, it’s time to manage or even eliminate the pain.

There is no danger in a hypnosis pain relief program. You can not “get stuck” in a hypnotic state. The worst that could possibly happen when you use hypnosis for pain reduction is that you could fall into a natural sleep state for a half hour- think of all of the times that pain has kept you from sleeping!

This is not to say that a hypnosis pain management system is similar to sleep, which is the major 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 hypnotist cannot help you. In truth, hypnosis is actually a state of keen awareness.

Even though you are consciously aware of everything, hypnosis pain management programs can help both physical and mental causes and present many effective avenues to eliminate pain. Pills just block the reception of the physical symptoms of pain briefly, but 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 in many cases no drugs at all.

Endorphins are opiate-like substances that are created in the brain. They are the elements that cause athletes to get a high when they workout intensely. Using hypnosis, you can also discover how to program your brain to make pain-relieving endorphins on demand and then send them to the painful part of your body where they are required.

Thanks to endorphins, the brain is capable of inducing analgesia, which is a mild anesthesia, as well as full 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 be used to program the mind to focus your attention away from pain, which will make you perceive much less discomfort. Additionally, hypnosis hypnosis pain management recordings can help our mind know and understand that the pain is present, but not to let us feel it. A certified hypnotherapist will understand how to completely address additional hypnotic suggestions that will facilitate your recovery.

A very effective hypnosis pain remedy comes from Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. No doubt that after coping with chronic pain, you may be skeptical that a hypnosis pain program will get the job done. In many cases, NLP techniques actually work better for modern thinkers than traditional hypnosis does because it was created for people like you who are taught to analyze and question everything. When we analyze, we tend to throw up barriers to the acceptance of post-hypnotic suggestions.

Stressful 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 instead. After you’ve used this practice, it will be impossible, or at least very difficult to think the thoughts that trouble you, because your mind will instantly 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 exhausted from coping with prescriptions that render you incompetent to drive or to fully experie life, or worse, of living with the shooting, stabbing or throbbing pulsations of discomfort, a hypnosis pain elimination program can provide safe, natural and instantaneous relief.

Alan B. Densky, CH has been helping people with self hypnosis pain control since 1978. A famous 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