Migraine Headache Treatment - Self-hypnosis Provides A Natural Cure
The adage "no pain, no gain" simply 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're in pain. Did you gain anything from missing out on memories?However, the adage that "Pain is all in your head" can, often, be true. If that is the case, then the cure is all in your head, too.
With self hypnosis, pain can fade away. Despite what you may think, hypnosis is simply a mental state where messages can connect with 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 serene over all.
Pain indicates that something in your body is amiss. So pain is technically a positive thing. But after you have your physician give you a check up to ensure that the pain is not indicative of a harmful condition like 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 not "get stuck" in a state of hypnosis. The worst that could possibly happen when you use hypnosis for pain management is that you might fall into a natural sleep state for 20 or 30 minutes- think of all of the times that discomfort has kept you from sleeping!
This isn't to say that a self hypnosis pain management system is similar to sleep, which is the leading misunderstanding about hypnosis. If you are asleep, you're unconscious. If you are not conscious, then you can't hear anything. If you cannot hear anything, then the hypnotist can't 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 tackle both physical and mental causes and present many successful avenues to do away with pain.
Drugs only block the reception of the physical feeling of pain temporarily, but self hypnosis pain regimens can actually lessen the amount and strength of pain signals that you perceive. You can literally reprogram your body to distribute less pain-inducing chemicals to your receptors. This means that you can use fewer pain killing medications, or in many cases no medications at all.
Endorphins are opiate-like elements that are manufactured in the brain. They are the chemicals that cause athletes to have a high when they workout intensely. Using hypnosis, you can also learn how to program your brain to generate pain-relieving endorphins on demand and then distribute them to the painful body part where they are needed.
Thanks to endorphins, the brain is capable of inducing analgesia, which is a mild anesthesia, as well as complete anesthesia (numbness). Medical journals are full of accounts both in pre-anesthesia days, as well as in modern times, when invasive surgery has been done under hypnoanesthesia.
Hypnosis can also work to program the mind to direct your attention away from pain, which will make you perceive far less discomfort. Further, self hypnosis pain management programs can help our mind realize and understand that the pain is there, but not to let us feel it.
A qualified hypnotherapist will be familiar with how to fully address additional hypnotic suggestions that will assist 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 doubtful that a self hypnosis pain program will get the job done.
In many cases, NLP methods actually work far better for modern thinkers than traditional hypnosis does because it was developed for people like you who are conditioned to question and analyze everything. When we analyze, we tend to throw up barriers to the acceptance of post-hypnotic suggestions.
Feelings of stress always make us perceive far more pain than we are actually experiencing. One of the most successful NLP patterns for eliminating anxiety is known as the "Flash." This method reprograms the unconscious mind to use mental images that create stress to actually trigger thoughts that cause feelings of relaxation instead.
After you've tried this technique, it will be difficult or impossible to think the thoughts that distress you, because your unconscious mind will instantly 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 incapable of driving or to fully experie 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.
by: Alan Densky