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1) The first level of pain control is removing your
biggest obstacle: FEAR, i.e., letting your intellect
play the "what if" game. Fear inhibits two important
abilities: concentration and relaxation. Basically, fear
= pain. You must confront both the fear associated with
the pain and the fear of using self-hypnosis. The fears
usually associated with pain are: fear of making it
worse, fear of having a unknown illness, fear of
unending pain, and fear of death. It is important that
your condition has been diagnosed by your doctor to
dispel these fears. The fears usually associated with
hypnosis are: fear of being misled or tricked, fear of
not doing it right, fear of losing self-control, or fear
of coming out of self-hypnosis too soon. The truth
is: all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. Your way is the
right way, and self-hypnosis is a method of gaining more
self-control than you ever thought possible! But you
must participate with an open mind. Once you have
practiced self-hypnosis techniques, the fear of coming
out of it is like the fear that you might forget how to
drive your car. In one form or another, hypnosis has
been successfully used by "native" healers for 100’s, if
not 1000’s of years. There are many well-documented
cases of painless surgeries with hypnosis dating as far
back as the 1840’s when a Scottish surgeon named Dr.
James Esdaile practiced Mesmeric techniques in India.
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2) The second level of pain control is achieved by
generating trust and belief in the hypnotic process and
in the virtuosity of your body. Realize that your body
makes its own pain killing drugs similar to morphine
called endorphins. (That’s why morphine and its
derivatives are so addictive, the brain has these
receptor sites built in.) Endorphins are administered in
a site-specific way within the brain in order to
preserve the other vital systems and functions of the
body. This is how nature intended pain control. Ever
notice a bruise on yourself and not remember how it
happened?
3) Once your mind has been freed of fear and ignorance,
the third level of pain control is the ability to focus
your intellect and concentrate on your experience in the
present moment. When you concentrate on just the pain in
the moment, noting its qualities, you have reduced that
pain by 2/3: you have removed both the pain you remember
from yesterday and the pain you anticipate for tomorrow.
By closing your eyes and focusing inwardly on the pain,
you have indirectly begun the hypnotic process.
Distracting yourself by concentrating on something else
such as your breathing can help, too.
4) The fourth level of pain control is using the
intellect to engage systematic/progressive relaxation.
Relaxation is an important key to successful pain
control, especially for chronic pain. You begin with
slow rhythmic breathing centering in the abdomen, paying
close attention to expelling ALL your air with each
exhale. Then focus on relaxing your eyelid muscles and
progress all the way down to your feet, mentally
relaxing each muscle group as you go. A personalized
guided relaxation CD is often helpful. Continue scanning
your body for any pockets of tension, and, if necessary,
consciously tense any resistant muscle group for a few
seconds, then release. Use your breath as your main
focal point. At this level you have reduced the pain by
about 75% and with enough practice can control your
nervous, circulatory, and healing systems through
visualization and guided imagery.
5) The fifth level is complete removal of the pain
through the process of dissociation. (Dissociation
through self-hypnosis is a controlled process and has no
relation whatsoever to any mental disorder.) Some people
are better at dissociation, out-of-body journeys, and
deep trance states than others; yet, with enough
practice anyone can do it. To enter a deep trance state
you must be completely relaxed but rested enough to
remain awake. The key here is to realize that you are
removing yourself from the pain and not vice versa. With
your mind’s eye, create a pain-free place in detail,
using your most vivid memories of a relaxing place.
Beautiful outdoor scenes work well, but any serene
location will do. Using a background sound track or
personalized self-hypnosis CD can prove useful to
maintain focus for longer periods of time. The more
absorbed you can become in your imagery, the more
oblivious you will become to your symptom. With enough
practice, at this level you can completely anaesthetize
any part of your body and undergo surgery or, coupled
with proper physical conditioning, you can mentally
detach from labor contractions for a drug-free, painless
childbirth.
PLEASE NOTE: Make sure you have been diagnosed by
your doctor before using any of these techniques,
especially if symptoms of redness, swelling, or
infection are present. Remember that pain is a signal
from the body that something may be overused or out of
balance, (or in childbirth, it may be time to simply
change positions.)
For those geographically indisposed (out of
town), I'll record a Personalized Session Audio CD with
your own personal imagery (hey, not everyone likes the
beach, right?). You are then able to do self-hypnosis on
your own with a custom-made audio CD with your choice of
background sounds that are meaningful to you.
To get
started today, click here and use my secure, instructional
order form. (You must be at least 18 years of age
or submit written parental consent.)
For those living in the SF Bay Area, please
click here to set up your FREE 1/2
hour consultation. In 2 sessions, you'll
learn self-hypnosis, develop in-depth personal pain
relieving imagery, and have a recorded personalized CD
of the second session for your home use. Let's go ahead
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