Hypnotic Pain Control Strategies
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A Brief Summary
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”Experimental and clinical psychologists have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an ‘Actual ‘experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail”
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Maxwell Maltz
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Psycho-Cybernetics
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1960
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Pain sounds a warning bell, its job is to gain our attention and alert us to an immediate
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problem. If we experience pain for a sustained length of time we should obviously seek medical evaluation and diagnosis from our GP., but after treatment has begun and suitable medical procedures are in operation, the pain itself becomes unnecessary - redundant if you will. But the warning bell still rings, robbing us of sleep and making life generally miserable, uncomfortable and sometimes ‘impossible’.
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Suffering on the other hand appears to stem from the attendant emotions people experience when they actually interpret the pain, emotions such as fear, isolation, injustice and anger are common place and should I believe, be addressed as well as the physiological event itself.
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Here is where hypnosis is extremely beneficial, not only because it can be directed to the pain in a selective fashion whilst leaving the alarm signalling system intact, but also because it can change the ways we interpret the pain and, where appropriate, deal with our belief systems and general coping and management structures.
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When the Client is in trance and the ever critical and evaluating conscious mind has been by passed, the Hypnotist, through the use of multilevel communication including metaphor, analogy and allegory can offer power suggestions to the unconscious which in turn can create profound therapeutic change.
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The great exponent of modern hypnosis, Dr. Milton Erickson, who sadly died in 1980, left behind him a huge body of knowledge based on the premise that we all possess the resources and abilities we need to produce hypnotic phenomena or facilitate hypnotic change. His work with terminal cancer patients as well as those with tinnitus and phantom limb pain is well documented.
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Based on what we have learned from Dr. Erickson and how hypnosis has evolved, here are some of the more general pain control strategies.
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Continued on next page.
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