With hypnosis for pain management I offer you a gentle way to reduce both acute and chronic pain that comes with conditions like:
You and I work together to change how you think feel and act towards pain.
Most likely we’ll start by focusing on your breathing to help you relax.
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy for pain management isn’t a one-off treatment. It depends on how severe your pain is.
With more practice the quicker and more effectively you can control the pain. In effect you're offering yourself faster and faster brain re-training.
Using Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy we will work together to change your thoughts and behaviours to develop better pain management coping skills.
Basically this is what pain management is: a change in your awareness of pain. This helps you develop better coping skills, even if the actual level of pain stays the same.
Why? Because the perception of pain is in your brain. And you can affect physical pain by addressing the thoughts and behaviours that fuel it. In other words pain management is a way of 'dialling down' the painful feelings so they don't run riot through your life
You’ll recognise that the pain interferes less with your life, so you can function better and with less stress.
Our work together also involves 'homework' - I'll want you to keep a track of your thoughts and feelings associated with your pain throughout the day in a journal, for example.
When I was 13 I had a cartilage taken out of my knee. Everyday ever since, to some extent, there's a reminder of the pain that's there - the odd twinge, stiffness in cold weather, clicks and grinds when I stand on that leg at yoga, if I turn suddenly.
So, when I decided to start running marathons and competing in Iron Man events my first thought was, "Can my knee take it, or am I I setting myself up for failure?"
Answer. I created my own hypnosis script and mantras to get me around the courses. Three Iron Man events and seven marathons later all I can remember was the sense of achievement and enjoying the events themselves. Nothing NOTHING got in the way.
