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FREEDOM FROM THE PERCEPTION OF PAIN

Pain is the perception of sensations in the body, as interpreted by the mind because of past knowledge and experience. When a message is sent from an affected part of the body to the brain, the brain is alerted that something is amiss. When we perceive an experience to be painful, we often tend to enhance that feeling and experience our expectation i.e., if a child puts his/her finger on a hot stove and is burned, the next time that child gets too close to that hot stove, he/she will pull back re-experiencing the fear of pain even if he/she didn't actually touch the stove, and if the child accidentally does touch the stove again, the pain experience will be enhanced because of the fear and expectation of the painful experience. Sometimes the actual fear of the pain is worse than the pain itself.

When someone experiences an accident causing a broken bone, the message is sent to the brain to alert the body that something has happened. The resulting pain is to prevent the use of that part of the body to allow healing. The actual experience of pain causes emotional stress; the muscles tense up and the pain is increased. Hypnosis can help reduce up to 75% of the pain by assisting the body to relax. In addition, hypnosis can help the person disassociate from the painful experience by therapeutic suggestion. Hypnosis acts upon the pain in a similar way as narcotics, however with hypnosis there are no side affects.

Psychosomatic pain is as real to the person experiencing it as physiological pain. In many cases of psychological pain, there is a suppressed underlying conflict. Deep emotional pain if not dealt with, will sometimes find an expression as disease, pain or both. The procedure for the removal of psychosomatic or physiological pain, is the same because the body suffers equally from both. Generally the client is unable to determine the difference because it is very real pain in either case.

Most of our emotional responses are unconscious. When we are born, we begin to develop a map of reality based upon our visual, auditory, kinesthetic and olfactory sensations and experiences. This map is only our perceptions of the way we perceive reality. A child does not have the ability to rationalize the same as an adult, thus if they are told something by someone they love and trust or someone in authority, they are likely to take it into their memory bank as truth. If a child is repeatedly told that they are just like grandma and grandma was sickly, then the child is likely to accept that as truth for themselves even if it is an untruth. The unconscious will then set out to create circumstances that confirm that belief that they are just like grandma.

The unconscious mind operates much like a computer. It is programmed with all sorts of software, some good and others simply not functional anymore. Your unconscious mind obeys your repetitive thoughts i.e., old programming. If you have been thinking negative thoughts about yourself; beating yourself up, your unconscious mind will set out to create in your world that which you believe is true about yourself.

It is important to think only positive thoughts because you will eventually experience the results of your repetitive thoughts in your physical world. Instruct your unconscious mind as to who you want to be. If you want to have a healthy pain free body, tell yourself, "I AM healthy and pain free". It may not be true when you say it, however, the subconscious mind does not know the difference in what you perceive as reality and what is imagined. If you keep the positive thought in your mind, and see yourself as healthy, your unconscious mind will have no choice but to create a healthier body. In some cases you can even reverse negative health conditions by consistently using repetitive positive affirmations with the feelings associated with good health.

Our bodily functions are controlled by our unconscious mind. It is a good thing, because if we had to consciously think about breathing we would soon die because we would forget to breath. Much of our unwanted behavior is unconsciously created by past programming because of the traumas we have experienced. Even minor incidents can have a profound affect on the unconscious mind. If you wish to change your behavior, change your thoughts. Make a list of the positive behavior an/or thoughts you wish to express in your life, then, direct your unconscious mind using the words "I AM", for example:

I AM healthy

I AM energetic

I AM pain free

I AM abundant

You can make up any affirmation you choose by simply including the world "I AM " in front of it. It is even more powerful if you can feel the emotion, i.e., feel healthy...feel pain free...feel abundant...feel energetic. If you don't know how it feels, make it up. Your unconscious mind doesn't know the difference.

Hypnosis bypasses the analytical left brain and accesses the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is more likely to accept therapeutic suggestions because it does not analyze the suggestion. You cannot be made to do anything that goes against your core values or survival instincts, however, if you have a sincere desire to change unwanted pain or behavior and trust the process, hypnosis is a powerful tool for transformation.

Hypnosis is most affective in a one-on-one session with a qualified Hypnotherapist, however, if you cannot afford the cost or the time to invest in one-on-one sessions, you will benefit from my RELEASING PAIN CD. The benefit of the CD is that you are getting a session in the privacy of your own home and you can use it over and over again. In fact, my RELEASING PAIN CD is most affective when listened to first thing in the morning before getting out of bed and the last thing in the evening before going to sleep. Listen to my RELEASING PAIN CD for 21 days and then as often as needed.

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Hypnosis for Pain

By Evelyn Strauss WebMD Medical News

Medically reviewed by Dr. Jeannie Brewer

Sept. 4, 2000 -- For me, cramming in college wasn't about mastering material before an exam. It was about squeezing in my studies before a migraine knocked me flat. When the fuzziness started creeping into my head, I knew it was just a matter of time. Leaning over my chemistry book, I'd race to memorize before the thumping began. Learning chemical reactions was not an option in my darkened bedroom, hammers whacking the inside of my head for days at a time.

What freed me from those hammers was hypnosis, a practice that people have used for medical purposes for more than a century. In the last several decades, researchers have subjected hypnosis to the scrutiny of clinical trials -- and it has passed with flying colors. It's been successfully used to soothe acute and chronic pain stemming from surgery, cancer, kidney stones, back conditions, and invasive medical and dental procedures. Still, many people who might benefit from the technique don't explore it. For some, hypnosis carries a stigma, perhaps because of the "performer" hypnotists, who make people cluck or moo in front of large audiences.

Fortunately for me, these were not my only associations with the technique. A friend had told me about her success using hypnosis to control pain from Crohn's disease, and I went to see her hypnotherapist. We taped a 10-minute session, and I listened to it every morning and evening. Within a couple of months, my migraines were gone.

"If this were a drug, everyone would be using it," says David Spiegel, MD, a psychiatrist at Stanford University. "Changing your mental set can change what's going on in your body."

"Most patients benefit from the use of hypnotic suggestion for pain relief," says Guy Montgomery, PhD, a behavioral scientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. (Montgomery published a meta-analysis on the subject in the April 2, 2000 issue of the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.)

Tapping the Power of Suggestion

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During hypnosis, subjects enter a state of inner absorption, concentration, and focused attention,

in which they pick up suggestions particularly well. In this condition, they can tap into normally unused mental powers to create new possibilities of 'experience. "Hypnosis is simply a refined form of applied imagination," says Donald F. Lynch Jr., MD, a urological oncologist at the Eastern Virginia School of Medicine, who has used the technique to help patients alleviate the pain, anxiety, and depression associated with cancer.

Results from several papers have recently furnished compelling new evidence for the powers of hypnosis. The April 29, 2000 issue of the journal Lancet reported that hypnosis reduced pain, anxiety, and blood pressure complications in patients undergoing invasive medical procedures. (Hypnosis was compared with standard care and supportive attention, such as encouragement and active listening.) In addition, the procedures took significantly less time in the hypnosis treatment group, probably because the health care workers didn't have to interrupt their activities to deal with the patients' pain or to stabilize blood pressure, says Spiegel. Patients in the hypnosis group also required less than half as much painkilling medication as those in the standard group.

Patients most commonly employ the technique in addition to other treatments, but it can also be used by itself. Alexander A. Levitan, MD, MPH, a medical oncologist in Minneapolis, has participated in numerous surgeries, including hysterectomies and tracheostomies, in which hypnosis was used as the sole agent for pain control.

How Does It Work?

No one knows exactly how hypnosis works, but scientists have several ideas. "Hypnosis changes your expectations about how intense the pain will be," says Montgomery. "That alters your experience of the subsequent pain."

Spiegel offers an alternative explanation. "You focus your attention on a competing image that blocks your perception of the pain," he says.

Researchers are currently testing these theories by way of various experimental approaches. Some studies, for example, are documenting the physiological changes that occur under hypnosis. The process activates certain parts of the brain, including the portion that focuses attention. "By concentrating elsewhere, a person inhibits the pain from coming to conscious awareness," says Helen Crawford, an experimental psychologist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

In a study by Spiegel and Harvard psychologist Steven Kosslyn, PhD, published in the August

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2000 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, subjects were hypnotized and told that the black-and-white pictures they were looking at were color. Blood flow increased in the part of the brain that processes color vision. In other words, although the subjects were viewing black-and-white photos, their brains behaved as if they were seeing colors.

Hypnotizing Yourself

For my antimigraine campaign, the idea was to create an experience of calm. At my appointment with the hypnotherapist, I listened to his voice saying that the muscles in my body might begin to lengthen, that I could discover just how comfortable I could become. "How pleasant it is to have a moment when doing nothing is the right thing to be doing," he said. He suggested that when I became completely conscious, I would discover that I could enjoy all of these comforts, even with my eyes open.

I suspect my sessions allowed me to incorporate a deepened sense of relaxation into my daily life, which alleviated the stress that was partly responsible for triggering my migraines. People often picture specific images to achieve a goal. To soften a headache, for example, I might have conjured up an ice pack on my head. For general pain relief, says Lynch, "you might focus on a part of the body as a control center. Then you turn down pain as you would turn down the volume of a radio."

Clinicians use a variety of tests to determine susceptibility to hypnosis, but chances are that if you can immerse yourself in your imagination -- if you easily get absorbed in novels, for example -you can be hypnotized. The technique employs powers of attention similar to those involved in watching a film. "When you enter a theater, you're aware of the other 200 or 300 people," says Levitan. "But when the movie begins, you concentrate on it and lose track of the audience. You choose to switch your focus." Motivation plays a key role in hypnosis, and the best way to find out if it will help you is to try it. "My experience has been that most people who need hypnosis for pain control can use it successfully," he says.

It's possible to induce a hypnotic state in yourself and conduct your own session -- which is the goal for many people. A licensed practitioner can facilitate learning the technique, however. "Most people do better the first time with someone helping," says Lynch. But he stresses, "All hypnosis is really self-hypnosis. The hypnotherapist is guiding you to do something for yourself. /I

For me, that something was reclaiming my time.

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Finally, I could delve into my books without the fear that advancing hammers would chase me through the pages.

Evelyn Strauss is a science and health writer based in Santa Cruz, Calif.

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• Got Pain? Researchers Have Some Ideas That May Surprise You

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