Managing Pain With Hypnotherapy
Huge numbers of people are affected by significant and long lasting pain. Here we focus on the effects that it can have on someone and how hypnotherapy can assist to handle that pain.
Pain is a huge problem, with around 10 million suffers in the United Kingdom alone (which is 20% of the populace!)(1). Pain is meant to warn us of damage, but when that warning continues for long periods, it can be both debilitating and stressful. Pain can come from lots of sources, including health problems, injury and medical procedures, and even the stress and strain of life. The use of medications can be a great help with pain but usually they would only go part way in removing the pain for periods of time and lots of people simply have to accept the pain.
Pain can be a warning that is challenging to ignore. The results of long lasting pain can be just as devastating as a severe pain from a recent injury.
Pain has a multitude of effects on the human body, which includes:
Changes in appetite are common in some instances from the drugs but normally whenever people turn to food for comfort.
Pain commonly causes interruption to their normal sleeping patterns.
Anxiety, depression and mood swings due to persistent pain.
Feelings of despondency, low self-esteem and self esteem – feeling ‘broken’.
How can hypnosis give assistance with pain control?
The use of hypnotherapy has a long pedigree with regards to pain management not to mention there are no unwanted side effects from drugs or surgery. It is extremely useful in relation to conditions where stress or anxiousness has a considerable effect on the symptoms or pains linked to the condition. Irritable bowel Syndrome, for example, is proven to worsen through stress and anxiety, so when these emotional problems are taken away, the issue should then calm in its severity.
Hypnotherapy processes do not remove pain, but it changes the perception of it as well as the response to it. This enables people to proactively manage their pain levels, which can be very empowering after years of being enslaved by pain.
In simple terms you understand how to treat pain and its effects in a new, more natural way. Hypnosis could well be the answer you are seeking out. Pain management hypnotherapy specialist techniques will give you the tools to relax deeply and significantly impact the way you control your pain.
Sally Moore from Hypnotherapy Lincolnshire based in Woodhall Spa and Lincoln, Lincolnshire has been extremely successful at reducing and controlling long term pain in many clients.
(1. http://www.britishpainsociety.org/media_faq.htm )
