Hypnosis isn't just effective at relieving stress and making us feel better about ourselves. Recently we have been able to see, very graphically, the power of hypnosis in the control of pain, with TV programmes such as Channel 4's ground breaking documentary Hypnosurgery Live and through ever more frequent media reports of surgical techniques such as knee surgery and dentistry performed solely with the use of hypnosis. This has finally given hypnosis the credibility needed for it to begin to be taken seriously by the medical community, meaning that today hypnotherapy is much more widely accepted and available as a genuine alternative and / or complementary method of pain relief - although the use of hypnosis alone for pain control during surgery is still pretty rare.
As everyone's nervous system is totally unique and as no one else can feel our pain, pain is completely subjective and everyone's experience of it is different. Yet no matter where we feel a pain, what causes the pain or the type of pain we feel, all pain is produced in the brain. Although we may feel pain at the site of say, a cancer tumour or a break in a bone or a cut to the skin; that is simply the brain’s way of telling us where the problem is but the sensation of pain is actually produced in the brain. Through the use of modern techniques such as brain imaging and studies into epigenetics, cutting edge science is now beginning to explain what complementary therapists have long believed; that there is a definite mind-body connection; one cannot be affected without affecting the other. This is fundamental in understanding how hypnosis works to control pain.
Hypnotherapists use hypnosis to help patients change the way the brain interprets these signals, allowing the patient to take control of the pain instead of being controlled by the pain.
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