| Hypnotherapy Pain Management | | | | of pain anywhere in the body-because they target |
| Have you ever wondered how people in India are | | | | the pain receptors in the brain. Hypnotherapy Pain |
| able to walk across hot coals without feeling any | | | | Management |
| pain? The answer is simple: hypnosis. | | | | But monks aren't the only ones to use hypnosis to |
| Hypnosis (both guided by someone else or | | | | control unpleasant sensations. Before anesthesia was |
| self-hypnosis) has been used throughout the | | | | available, people often used hypnosis (again, either |
| centuries as a way of managing pain. It is often | | | | self- or guided-) as a means of managing pain and |
| intertwined with religious practice. Monks in many | | | | discomfort during surgery. |
| different cultures are able to endure what most of | | | | Today, hypnosis is an excellent tool for managing |
| us would consider to be quite painful rituals without | | | | pain due to chronic conditions such as: fibromyalgia, |
| experiencing great discomfort because their minds | | | | arthritis, migraine headaches and menstrual cramps. It |
| are so focused on the spiritual element(s). Though | | | | can also be used to ease the side effects from |
| meditation, they are able to achieve a level of | | | | chemotherapy. Furthermore, it is a growing trend for |
| self-hypnosis in which their brain is able to ignore or | | | | women to use hypnotherapy in order to give birth at |
| "switch off" the pain receptors. | | | | home in a natural, drug-free environment. The benefit |
| Pain occurs not at the site of the injury, but rather in | | | | of this kind of hypnosis is that once you are familiar |
| the mind. It is the nerves which signal to receptors in | | | | enough with the practice to engage in self-hypnosis, |
| the brain that pain should be felt, and it is the brain | | | | it can be used to ease all types of pain and physical |
| that then triggers that sensation. This is how pain | | | | discomfort. |
| killers such as Tylenol are able to work on any type | | | | |