How can Hypnotherapy help with pain management?
Probably one of the most famous Hypnotherapists in the world called Milton Erickson, used Hypnotherapy to help himself with pain relief, after suffering from polio, when he was a young boy. When he was recovering from polio and had to live in an iron lung, he used to watch how people behaved and this developed his interest in psychology.
Hypnotherapy is a very powerful tool if used properly and could be a great benefit in helping you to control pain. Hypnotherapy can be used to distort time, so rather than you feeling pain all day, it maybe possible to help you just to feel it for 10 minutes of that day. I am assuming that you have already been to see a doctor to ensure that the pain, isn’t trying to tell your body anything.
If you could feel uncomfortable at the dentist, time distortion could be used to make the time at the dentist seem as short as possible. While at the same time suggestions could be made into your subconscious mind, so that you feel more comfortable while the dentist is working on your teeth. The same technique could be used to make a flight in a plane more bearable.
If I was going to help you with pain management, I would first find out a little bit more about your experience of pain and how it is effecting your life.
If you are on heavy medication for your pain and this is causing you to feel drowsy all the time, Hypnotherapy maybe an alternative way to help you deal with the pain. But this is something you need to discuss with your doctor before coming to see me.
I would then show you how to release tension that you hold in your body, this could be a big factor in why your are experiencing pain and this maybe causing you a blockage. The next area I would work with is your breathing. Shallow breathing can cause you to hyper ventilate and experience more of the pain than you really need to. Hypnotherapy has been used very successfully to help reduce pain, while a lady is going through pregnancy especially labour itself.
I remember years ago before I left HSBC suffering from lower back pain, I changed my chair but this made no difference. As soon as I retired from HSBC my lower back pain disappeared and I put this down to the environment I was working in at the time. The Telecom department I worked in processed an awful lot of information and my body was experiencing the shock of that, even though I had conditioned myself to deal with the huge volumes of data. 10 years later I found out that two of the people who I was working with in the department, were suffering from cancer and it didn’t surprise me and pushed me to leave HSBC sooner than I would have like to.
I will then guide you through a number of visualisation exercises and finally once in you are in a very relaxed state of mind I will suggest a number of positive statements into your subconscious mind to help you with pain management. Your subconscious mind is more liable to take on board positive statements while you are in a very relaxed state of mind.
There is a story of a young girl who was extremely ill in bed, who suddenly started speaking in Hebrew, while in a fever. It came out that she had once lived with a professor, who used to walk around late a night, speaking Hebrew to himself, while she was asleep in bed. Her subconscious mind had absorbed this and learnt it, even though she wasn’t fully conscious at the time. I can remember falling asleep in Latin classes, but because the teacher didn’t reprimand me for it, I actually went from the bottom of the class to the top. I was in a light sleep while learning, which was a form of hypnotic trance.
I will then provide you with a tailor made Hypnotherapy CD, which I recommend using daily. As you learn to relax properly on a daily basis, any pain trapped in your body will start to be released. Any memories from your past that could be causing pain in your body will be released, so that you can review these memories and file them away more cleanly.
I personally had been suffering from boils on my nose from 18-26, when I resolved a panic attack issue, the boils went away. After I released repressed feelings from my child hood, that had been causing them. There is a big link between the body and the mind.
Whether you live in Sheffield or else where in the world, I can either work face to face, visit you in your home or do a consultation over the telephone and drop you a tailor made CD in the post.
If I can assist you further, please contact me on (0044) 01909 561706 or via tim@hypnosis-sheffield.com.
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Tim Wells Hypnotherapist and Neuro Linguistic Programming (N.L.P.) master practitioner who is based close to Sheffield, is looking for opportunities to conduct tailor made personal development courses for your organisation. He can deliver courses in the following areas: Stress Management, Weight Management, Stopping smoking, Phobia removal, Confidence boosting, positive thinking, Lucid dreaming, Sales skills, Mind machine technology etc. I am also open to offers to carry out work, that I may not have already considered.
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