| At one point or another each of us has experienced | | | | or silenced. |
| pain. | | | | Perhaps the most surprising thing is that we almost |
| Though few people actually welcome it, few would | | | | always look to ourselves last in any attempt to control |
| deny that it has an essential role to play in our survival. | | | | our chronic pain. Yet it is within our self and our own |
| After all, without pain, we simply wouldn't be aware | | | | mind that real pain relief and truly effective pain control |
| that tissue damage is taking place somewhere in our | | | | can be found. |
| body and that we need to do something - fast. | | | | Because we are so accustomed to looking outside of |
| In any approach to pain, of course, we need to first | | | | ourselves for help with pain, we seem to have a |
| check with a qualified doctor or other medical | | | | learned mind-set of helplessness when it comes to |
| practitioner. It is essential that we get a proper medical | | | | chronic pain. We have been conditioned to accept that |
| evaluation of our situation and the correct treatment | | | | something or someone external to ourselves is |
| for any disease or injury that we may have suffered. | | | | responsible for making pain go away. |
| But what if we have already done this? But what if | | | | Understanding that we have it within our self to control |
| we have already received and understood the | | | | pain is a major step forward in releasing its truly |
| message pain brings, done all we - and the doctor - | | | | debilitating grip on our life. |
| can do and yet still the pain exists? | | | | And this is the wonderful power of using hypnosis and |
| This is the predicament faced by millions of us on a | | | | self-hypnosis for pain relief. |
| daily basis. And living with this kind of pain seriously | | | | With properly applied hypnosis we are empowered to |
| affects the quality of life for anyone forced to | | | | instruct our own mind to dramatically reduce - and in |
| experience and endure it. | | | | many cases totally eliminate - any pain we may be |
| Generally speaking, pain may be divided into two | | | | experiencing. |
| distinct types: Acute pain and chronic pain. | | | | No drugs, no apparatus, no TEMS machines are |
| Acute pain is useful and indeed, essential. It informs us | | | | needed. Indeed, hypnosis is so powerful that it can be, |
| of what needs attention and this is the reason for its | | | | and sometimes is, used instead of local or general |
| existence. It's a signal relayed from the wounded area | | | | anaesthetic in order to completely eliminate pain even |
| to the brain alerting us to take action. | | | | in major surgery. |
| But chronic pain is altogether different. With pain of this | | | | All that's required is your mind's own innate capacities |
| kind, we have already received the message and still it | | | | and abilities. |
| persists. It is ongoing and relentless. It's as if we seem | | | | If you or someone you care about suffers from |
| to be just stuck with it. | | | | chronic pain, there really is something you can do |
| Indeed, the chronic pain generated by conditions such | | | | about it. |
| as rheumatism, back and shoulder pain, arthritis, | | | | By working with an experienced and fully qualified |
| migraine headaches, post surgical pain, cancer (and | | | | transformational hypnotherapist, you can learn how to |
| sometimes its treatment), fybromyalgia etc serves no | | | | control even long-standing chronic pain. |
| useful purpose. It is unneeded for our survival. | | | | Using the power of your own mind you can indeed |
| Put simply, chronic pain is useless pain. | | | | learn to control pain - and regain control of your life. |
| When pain outlives its usefulness it needs to be muted | | | | |