Hypnotherapy for Pain
Hypnotherapy has been used to relieve chronic pain for
many years. In fact, hypnosis was one of the
earlier forms of anaesthesia, when doctors discovered that
surgery could be performed without the patient feeling pain.
Pain may be a warning of an underlying medical condition, so if you are considering hypnosis then you should visit your GP first. When the pain has been diagnosed, hypnotherapy can be of great benefit alongside medication or alone.
Hypnotherapy works by changing the way the brain interprets the pain signals sent by the affected nerves to the brain so as to reduce the intensity of what is felt.
Research has shown that hypnosis can relieve pain associated with digestion and IBS, headaches, backache,
fibromyalgia, sciatica, dentistry, surgery and a variety of other injuries and illnesses.
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Emotional pain - the pain of rejection and loss - shows up in our brain in the same pattern as that of bodily pain, demonstrating again the link between mind and body. Depression also leads to worsening of chronic pain.
Hypnotherapy can release mental pain and lift depressive thoughts thus releasing and
lifting the pain in the body *