Can you change pain and change the intensity itself? If you work with hypnosis then you know you can, but there has also been research done on it and what came out of that was interesting. In this article you will discover 3 ways you can change
Pain can change you in 3 ways
In hypnosis, you can regulate pain so that it diminishes or even disappears completely. You can also use hypnosis to sedate. The stimulus is then still there but through anesthesia it is no longer there.
But now researchers from Oxford in collaboration with researchers from Sidney have also discovered a way that offers perspective for people with chronic pain.
They had a group of people who had chronic pain in their hands move their hands. In response, swelling developed and it hurt. Not necessarily a pleasant study, but good.
They divided people into three groups. One group was given a magnifying glass, another group was given a diminutive glass, and the other group was not. You may already know where this is going and indeed the group that looked through the magnifying glass, there the pain was significantly less. That's interesting.
And not only was the pain less, the swelling was less and went away faster. In the group that used the magnifying glass there, the swelling actually increased. So the way you look at your pain does have a strong influence.
Another way to treat pain
Italian scientist Marina de Tommaso and colleagues investigated whether art could play a part in combating pain. They first had people look at about 300 paintings and had to classify them from beautiful to ugly.
Then they looked for the paintings together, beautiful and ugly. That person then went to look at the painting and was administered a pain stimulus. When he looked at an ugly painting, he felt the pain more than with the beautiful painting.
So beauty can also help ease pain, so when you are in pain look at something beautiful or think of something beautiful and you ease the pain. In fact, you process the pain stimuli less strongly when you look at beauty.
The third way to fight pain
The third way was also kind of an interesting one. It was a study that Kurt Grey and Daniel Wagner did from Harvard University. They did it on people who were given a pain stimulus. They told the people who participated that the person who would give them a stimulus could choose between pain or pleasure.
These people were divided into two groups and one group was told that the person giving them the pain stimulus does it on purpose. The other group was told that he does it accidentally because he thinks he is actually making them feel good. This is because the software program is confused.
Those who received the pain stimulus "accidentally" experienced less pain. So also the intention of the person you hurt apparently has an influence.
So what does this mean and what can you do with it
So when you're in pain, here's what you can do. First, it's not on purpose. In addition, you can imagine it getting smaller and smaller; for example, you can imagine your hand getting smaller and smaller.
And then look at something you really like. This will reduce pain and also make it stop faster. For people with chronic pain, this can definitely be a good start to learning to deal with it.
However, if you want more effect then I know hypnosis can help you even better. Please make an appointment if you want to reduce or even resolve this pain for good. With hypnosis it is possible to resolve chronic pain completely. It does depend on the pain and the situation but it is possible.
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