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MANAGEMENT OR FEAR OF PAIN
WHY CHOOSE HYPNOSIS?
Pain should never be treated for its own sake, but if the underlying cause is known and your doctor gives permission, hypnosis can be very effective in relieving pain. Hypnotherapy is used in a variety of situations and pain control can work in three ways.
1. Relaxation
When pain is experienced, muscle and tissue becomes tense. This can exacerbate the pain.
2. Sensory Alteration
The signals sent by our body are actually interpreted and perceived as pain within in our mind. There are many techniques that we can use to change that interpretation, so that our resulting perception of the pain is also altered to the point where the pain can be turned off or reduced.
3. Distraction
Your mind simply focuses on something else, either external to you or sensations in some other part of your body, reducing the attention you're paying to the pain. Its just like when you cut yourself without realising it and you don't actually feel any pain until you become aware of the cut some time later. Up until that moment, your mind had successfully been distracted.
Hypnotherapeutic techniques can be used as a safe, natural alternative to anaesthetic for surgery or for controlling more chronic pain such as arthritic joint pain.
The treatment is highly tailored to individual requirements, so the exact form of treatment and number of sessions will vary from person to person. However significant improvements can quite often be made in just a few sessions, with a view to teaching self hypnosis for future use.
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