The short answer is yes, I can make your pain stop, whether it is emotional or physical pain
And if that is enough, go ahead, click the purple button on this website and contact me to book an appointment
However, if you are curious how it works, then listen up as I share some pretty cool stuff
Today, we look into the mind and how pain works
As well as how hypnosis can effectively remove or resolve both physical and emotional hurt
Now I will caution though!
For physical pain, if you need to see a doctor for treatment for an injury, please do so as well
It doesn’t make sense to remove it so you can run on a broken ankle for a marathon without a cast for example
That’s just crazy
If you understand that, then let’s look first into how our brain and body works
The Science of Pain
Now of course, if we step on a Lego brick, it doesn’t just light up a specific area of the brain
What seems simple is actually a rather complex network that involve nerves, the body, and the brain to interpret pain from physical, emotional or other sources
Physical pain is pretty straight forward
When we get a cut or an injury, the nerves send signals to the brain, lighting up specific areas that might help one to understand the source of the pain
Between the left arm or the right leg, a small cut or a more serious bruise, etc
Emotional or psychological pain is a little more interesting
Naturally, these can come from emotional hurts or psychological issues and that can trigger either a mental or even a physical pain
A person who just had their heart broken might literally feel their heart ache
Other sources of pain might be environmental, or even a trigger from mirror neurons when you see someone else hurting
Environmental causes might be the sensations of prickly heat or biting cold
While mirror neurons activate when we observe someone else, be it in real life or even when watching a movie
It can be an emotion like feeling sad seeing someone cry, or even a stronger sensation like wincing while your foot tingles at seeing a victim in a horror movie
In fact, pain is a personal and subjective experience
One might have more sensitivity, or more tolerance, to the same source, and thus you get different reactions
How does Hypnosis work with Pain Relief?
Now I’m going to refer to this study for a bit where they compared the brain scans of people who had physical, hypnotically-induced, and imagined pain
Simply put, there are some disorders which seem to have no explanation, and they wanted to study some possible causes
Naturally, when there is a physical cause, it is of the highest intensity, and more areas of the brain is activated
And on the other side, if the pain is imagined only, it is pretty low intensity, and very few areas are activated
However, when one is hypnotically induced, we can see similar areas of the brain are activated (matching the physical), even though it may not be the same intensity
Now of course, this shows the power of hypnosis in inducing pain
How does it help then?
Let’s sidetrack a bit more and I shall share my reasonings about this study for a bit
The current pain disorders might have physical causes (which aren’t found or isolated yet) or psychological factors
And perhaps, these psychological causes were hypnotically induced
That is where you need to understand how the mind works, how hypnosis is involved even during our childhood
Naturally, since the issues that stem from our childhood are deep inside us
They can cause either pain or illness
And that is also why hypnosis is a great tool in resolving and relieving such hurts
Now what about the physical causes, you might ask
Since this study showed that it is possible to use hypnosis to induce pain, then that also means we can use hypnosis to relieve or stop pain
I will caution again!
If you need medical attention, please seek treatment if necessary
Only if you still got remnants of physical pain, then yes hypnosis is a viable option
Quick Case Study of Hypnosis for Toothache
Yes, it is true
A female client came to me for a toothache, lamenting how it hurt, and it was swollen
How she cannot eat or drink cold drinks
Honestly, my eyes were narrowed as I asked her
“Why not see a dentist?”
And she replied that she went to the dentist that morning and he said it was an inflammation and scheduled for surgery 3 days later
However, she cannot wait 3 days because it is such a torture
So she came to me to help her relieve her pain
At least enough for her to eat and drink normally
I relented… but I reminded her to still see the dentist for the surgery
Just because the pain is gone, doesn’t mean the inflammation no longer exist
She still needs medical treatment
She agreed and I did the hypnosis
After she came out of hypnosis, she drank a glass of cold water to test
To her surprise, it was really gone
I reminded her to go for the surgery before she left
4 days later, she texted me with a sad emoticon
“McKing… my toothache came back…”
I asked if she went to the dentist…
She replied she didn’t go cause there was no more toothache
Facepalm!
For the record, her unconscious mind knew about the inflammation and made her tooth ache and swollen so that she will see a dentist
And in the hypnosis, we told her unconscious mind that the appointment for the surgery was set for 3 days later, and thus, there is no reason to have the aching reminder anymore
That’s why it went away
However, after 3 days, her unconscious mind realized she didn’t go for the surgery and thus, the toothache came back
To Conclude
Yes, hypnosis can help with pain relief
And because everyone has their unique perceptions and beliefs towards themselves
It means that each hypnotic experience is personalized and incredibly unique
For the lady above, we negotiated with her unconscious mind to reduce and remove the toothache
And I had a client came for pain after a stroke, which surprisingly, came from anger
Upon releasing her anger, her pain went away
But for another person, like my mom’s physical injury, we did a regression to heal her physical injury instead
Since I shared earlier that pain is a personal and subjective experience, so too is its resolution
That’s why I can have many different examples of various techniques and possibilities for how one person’s pain can come about
So if you have any questions, feel free to tap that purple button that you see on this website and drop me a message
I will reply as soon as I can
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Til next time~
