Resolving pain through hypnosis

Pain

What is pain. Pain is an unpleasant stimulus caused by actual or potential damage to the body. There is an injury somewhere or one is imminent and the brain releases a stimulus of pain. Sometimes, however, pain occurs without an identifiable physical cause.

It is a very good principle that we have in our bodies. It is an advanced warning system that demands your attention. You want to start doing something about it immediately so that the pain stops. Most people then take a painkiller because that's the easiest thing to do.

Pain, of course, can also very well be a signal of something that really needs urgent care. Think of appendicitis. Surgery is then necessary and the pain causes you to take immediate action. So it is something very beautiful.

Pain and Hypnosis

Because pain demands your attention and you bring all your attention to that place, you feel the pain too. Have you ever been in pain somewhere and been distracted? For a moment you had "forgotten" about the pain, so to speak. The feeling was gone. So you can also compare it to hypnosis, only you work with different principles.

When you want to work with anesthesia, a few things are important. First is the natural anesthesia that we as humans have in our bodies. We have the "gift" of completely anesthetizing ourselves. That's super cool and also insanely effective in surgery. Importantly, the person undergoing it is in the somnambulistic state, or a state of physical relaxation as well as mental relaxation.

Mental relaxation is achieved when you forget something and can't get back to it. That is the test for the hypnotherapist to make that happen. From there, anesthesia is very easy and can be achieved after only a few minutes. Ideal for dentists.

It's different, when pain is a signal for something to happen. To numb that pain is neither smart nor advisable. You can imagine if you were to numb the pain in appendicitis, that's not helpful (and that's putting it mildly...).

Anesthesia with hypnosis is ideal for dentistry, as well as for minor and even major surgeries. It requires skill from the hypnotherapist, but also from the nursing staff, such as doctors, nurses and orderlies... Indeed, the power of suggestion cannot be underestimated. Indeed, as a doctor, you can also work very well with "waking hypnosis" by suggesting that this drug (e.g., water) is highly sedating. If the patient accepts this and the doctor reinforces it, then anesthesia is a reality.

It would be nice if hypnosis were used much more widely. Also in patient conversations. I'm not talking about closing eyes and relaxing, but getting a patient to believe an idea. Everyone knows the effect of the placebo, only few doctors also work with it in language. Just the other day I sat with a doctor with my son because he had to have a shot. The doctor went ahead and prepped him by telling him it might hurt and not to be afraid....

Quickly, I broke into that conversation and distracted my son with something else. The doctor I gestured for her to give the shot now and nothing was wrong. However, if you are going to make someone shift all their attention to where it is going to hurt, then you create problems that don't have to. Of course, I briefly explained to the doctor what I was doing and that it might be good to get some training;-)

You see, you can use hypnosis to numb pain very easily. It is a method that would be ideal for a dentist, but also a midwife, for example. You can also do it yourself by closing your eyes once. And then relax your eye muscles completely until you can no longer open them. When you have succeeded, say to yourself , "As long as I cannot open my eyes, nothing that happens around me will bother me, nor will anything bother me.

Please leave a comment what your findings are.

Ferdy Koot

on03 Apr 2012

Hello, My wife has been suffering from Bladder Pain Syndrome for about 2.5 years. There are indications that the body is indeed trying to process “something” psychological, but this cannot be proven through conventional medical means. For now, she’s receiving bladder irrigations as “treatment.” Then there’s the “chicken-and-egg” situation: as soon as she starts focusing on her breathing, she goes into a full-blown panic. It was once suggested that she might have drowned in a past life, but due to her fear of hypnosis, that won’t be clarified. And so you have a vicious cycle… Personally, I do love experimenting, but perhaps because of my ADD, I hardly ever go into a trance during self-hypnosis. Let alone one deep enough to allow regression to a past life. Interesting article!

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