There is a reason why we feel pain. Pain can be a very useful signal from your body, telling that you need to take it easy, to re-evaluate your way of life, to seek medical attention. But pain, especially chronic pain, can be a devastating thing, negatively affecting every aspect of our lives. As pain continues, your system can become more sensitive to it, so that pain just leads to even greater pain. Pain can cause terrifying panic and crushing despair, making life seem unlivable.
But so much of pain is a matter of focus and perception. We’ve all had times when we’ve accidentally cut ourselves without even noticing it. But what happened the moment that you did finally see the cut? It started to hurt, perhaps quite badly. Think about other times when you were in pain, but something distracted you sufficiently so that you felt the pain much less or it even disappeared altogether. Once the distraction was over, you were probably amazed and distressed to feel the pain come flooding back. But the fact that you were able to forget about the pain for a while shows that what you think about the pain can have a profound effect on how much it actually hurts.
Before you can address the effects of your pain, you must know its cause. It is vital that you consult a qualified medical physician before we start to work on your pain. While hypnosis is not effective for every single pain sufferer, no treatment is. But in many studies hypnosis has proven extremely effective for treating both acute and chronic pain, and today is even used for childbirth and certain surgeries. Hypnosis is widely recognized by contemporary medicine as one of the safest and most inexpensive means of pain control available.
