Stress and pain are intimately related. When being in pain causes stress or being stressed worsens pain, Hypnotherapy can help break the cycle.
For pain therapists, these treatments, which focus on the relationship between the mind and body, are considered mainstream. For other health professionals, they may be considered alternative or complementary therapies. Regardless of how they are labelled, there is evidence that for many people they work.
Hypnosis rapid transformational techniques designed to enhance concentration, minimize one’s usual distractions, and heighten responsiveness to suggestions to alter one’s thoughts, feelings, behaviour, or physiological state. Hypnosis is not a type of psychotherapy. It also is not a treatment in and of itself; rather, it is a procedure that can be used to facilitate other types of therapies and treatments.
Hypnotherapeutic methods for achieving pain relief are numerous. Suggestions may be direct or indirect or may utilize guided imagery, hypnoanalysis or other procedures.
As is so important in hypnosis, attitude is a major factor. It is important that the patient accept that relief is possible. Interim pain needs to be approached on a different basis from chronic pain. Interim pain is not to be relinquished completely as it usually a sign of injury. However, chronic pain may have become a “program” that the conscious mind continues to run even after the injury has healed. In these cases pain may well be completely removed permanently.
Through hypnosis, patients frequently can be shown that they can control their pains, and being able to do so they also can diminish pain to tolerable levels or turn it off completely at will.
Seemingly endless periods of tests which prove inconclusive, often accompanied by conflicting diagnoses, can instill levels of fear which may be dealt with through hypnotherapy. Guilt, anger or other emotional problems often enter into the picture when accidents are involved as source conditions.
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In dealing with pain situations, teaching the patient the use of self-hypnosis techniques can be highly beneficial, reinforcing the programming that has been done in the case.
