Pain, chronic pain relief, sheffield, U408

Hypnotherapy for Pain and Headaches

Deep relief
Hypnotherapy can help at a deep level with pain, in the following ways:
1) directly reducing levels of pain
2) altering your perception of pain
3) improving your mind's response to pain
4) dealing with trauma that may have initiated the pain response
5) reducing physical tension
6) helping you cope with pain

Hypnotherapy for backache pain, Sheffield

What is pain?
Doctors discovered during the world wars that uninjured people could be in great pain e.g., if they thought the blood they could see was their own. Likewise, injured soldiers were equally capable of being in no pain, despite huge injury, if their minds were intent on a task e.g., getting to greater safety or rescuing someone.

Switching off pain
Do you think you'd notice a cut on your leg if you were in the process of saving a child's life e.g., from falling over a cliff? Yet this same cut would be very painful if you were just sat at home doing nothing. Pain, it turns out, is subjective, and we are quite capable of switching it off! Its just not usually under our direct control.

One definition is:
"Pain is the mind's emotional response to warn of tissue damage."
Born in the mind, it follows that pain has the potential to be completely switched off by the mind too. This is exactly what happens when people commonly undergo anaesthetic-free operations using only hypnosis for pain relief.

Hypnotherapy for backache pain, Sheffield

Chronic Pain
Hypnotherapy can also help with chronic pain. After all why does your mind give out the same warning over and over again? If you got the message the first time it might feel a bit pointless 10 years later when it's still relentlessly saying the same old warning! These responses can even persist long after the initiating condition has cleared up. The mind gets 'caught in a loop'.

Hypnotherapy changes these conditioned emotional responses by accessing the subconscious, where conditioned responses are stored.

Hypnotherapy for Pain and Headaches

Hypnotherapy for Pain and Headaches

Hypnotherapy helps with the following kinds of pain:

- injury
- post operative pain
- mystery pain see also Stress and Anxiety page
- headaches see also Stress and Anxiety page
- back pain see also Stress and Anxiety page
- tooth ache
- burns
- phantom limb pain
- pain caused by disease
- migraine see also Stress and Anxiety page

Hypnotherapy for backache pain, Sheffield

Consult your GP first
*Pain is a vital response to let us know that something is wrong. In all cases the client must have consulted their GP first. Only in very rare cases will pain be completely removed. More usually it will be reduced and/or transformed. Once you have seen your GP we can work on a solution based upon what is known about your pain.

Hypnotherapy for backache pain, Sheffield

Hypnotherapy for backache pain, Sheffield

*Required disclaimer: Results, symptoms and treatment may vary from person to person, all individual cases are taken on merit.

Treating pain with hypnotherapy, depending on the nature of the pain, may involve:

- Visualisations and progressive relaxation in hypnosis (removing tension, especially in and around the affected areas is the first and easiest step towards relief)

- Directly reducing your pain* (with hypnotic suggestion your sensations of pain can come more under your control such that it can be largely reduced)

- Changing your perception of pain (with hypnotic suggestion your perception can change from feeling pain to feeling e.g., pressure or warmth)

- Changing your emotional response to pain (pain is an emotional response designed to ensure you take serious and immediate action. As such there is often a hidden element of fear associated with pain which makes the sensation much worse. With hypnotic suggestion the subconscious can be encouraged to let go of this fear element. Other emotional associations with your pain can also be removed such as anger, depression, guilt etc, all of which lightens your load.)

- Dealing with the trauma that initiated the pain. (in cases of serious injury the event that initiated the pain may have been traumatic and could benefit from reprocessing. By revisiting this event in the comfort and safety of hypnosis the emotional element can be reduced and hence the pain too. This approach can also cure cases of 'mystery pain' when these are the expression of a long forgotten trauma or even a current subconscious conflict, stress etc,.)

- Boosting self-esteem and motivation with hypnotic suggestion and NLP (NLP anchoring can allow you to summon up your best, as and when it's needed, and hypnotic suggestions can help you feel better about yourself and what you are dealing with... all of which can help you cope long term)

Hypnotherapy for backache pain, Sheffield

- Timeframe:
This varies greatly depending on each individual's pain, condition and situation.

Hypnotherapy for backache pain, Sheffield

 

 

 

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