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The old adage "no pain, no gain" simply is not true. Envision all of the times pain has kept you from engaging in activities that you enjoy - perhaps partaking in sports and even sitting can be impossible when you are in great discomfort. Have you gained anything from missing out on memories?

However, the adage that "Pain is all in your head" can, actually, be true. If that is the case, then the cure is all in your head, also. With self-hypnosis, pain can completely disappear. Despite what you may believe, hypnosis is simply a mental state during which messages can reach the unconscious more easily. The state of hypnosis is characterized by deep relaxation. In fact, with regular practice of a hypnotherapy pain elimination regimen, you will find yourself much more calm over all.

Pain indicates that something in your body is not right. So pain is actually a positive thing. But once you have your doctor give you a check up to make sure that the pain is not signaling a harmful condition like a tumor, it is time to manage or even eliminate the pain.

There is no danger in a self-hypnosis pain relief program. You can't "get stuck" in a state of hypnosis. The worst that might happen when you use hypnotherapy for pain control is that you could fall into a natural state of sleep for 20 or 30 minutes- think of all of the nights that pain has kept you from getting sleep!

This is not to say that a self-hypnosis pain management system is the same as sleep, because that is the major misunderstanding about hypnosis. If you are asleep, you're unconscious. If you are unconscious, then you can't hear anything. If you can't hear anything, then a hypnotist can't assist you. Hypnosis is actually a state of keen awareness.

Even though you are consciously aware of everything, self-hypnosis pain management programs can help both physical and mental causes and introduce many effective avenues to do away with pain. Medications just block the reception of the physical symptoms of pain on a temporary basis, but self-hypnosis pain regimens can actually decrease the amount and strength of pain signals that you perceive. You can literally reprogram your body to distribute less pain-inducing chemicals to your receptors. This means that you can use fewer pain killing drugs, or in many cases no prescriptions at all.

Endorphins are opiate-like substances that are created in the brain. They are the chemicals that cause athletes to feel high when they workout very hard. Using hypnotherapy, you can also learn how to program your brain to create pain-relieving endorphins on demand and then distribute them to the painful part of your body where they are needed.

Because of endorphins, the brain is capable of inducing analgesia, which is a mild anesthesia, as well as full anesthesia (numbness). Medical journals are full of reports both in pre-anesthesia days, as well as in modern times, when major surgery has been done under hypnoanesthesia.

Hypnosis can also be used to program the mind to focus your attention away from pain, and that will make you perceive far less discomfort. Further, hypnosis self-hypnosis pain management recordings can help our mind recognize and comprehend that the pain is there, but not to let us experience it. A certified hypnotherapist will be familiar with how to completely address other hypnotic suggestions that will lead to your recovery.

A very effective hypnosis pain remedy comes from Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. No doubt that after coping with chronic pain, you may be cynical that a self-hypnosis pain program will help. In a lot of cases, NLP methods actually work far better for modern thinkers than traditional hypnosis does because it was created for people like you who are brought up to analyze and question everything. When we analyze, we tend to throw up barriers to the acceptance of post-hypnotic suggestions.

Feelings of stress always make us perceive far more pain than we are actually experiencing. One of the most successful NLP patterns for eliminating stress is known as the "Flash." This method reprograms the unconscious to use mental images that create stress to actually trigger thoughts that create feelings of relaxation in their place. After you have used this technique, it will be difficult or impossible to think the thoughts that trouble you, because your unconscious mind will instantly and automatically exchange them in a Flash for thoughts that relax you instead.

Pain relief and self hypnosis go hand in hand. If you are tired of coping with prescriptions that leave you incapable of driving or to fully experie life, or worse, of living with the stabbing, shooting or throbbing pulsations of discomfort, a hypnosis pain elimination program can offer safe, natural and instantaneous relief.

Alan B. Densky, CH has been helping people with self-hypnosis pain relief since 1978. A famous authority in the hypnotherapy field, he offers pain management hypnosis & NLP CDs and free self hypnosis resources on his Neuro-VISION website.