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Pain Management

Hypnosis can be used in a number of different situations relating to pain. One way is during pre and post surgery. Hypnosis is very effective in helping to calm pre surgery fears so that you can go into the surgery with a positive and healing attitude. Afterwards hypnosis can be used to find helpful visualizations suggested by the subconscious which can be practiced during self hypnosis to speed up the healing process.

Dental work is another area where hypnosis is effective. Many people have a strong expectation of pain upon going to the dentist and avoid it whenever possible. By diminishing that expectation you can diminish much of the pain associated with dental work.

Hypnosis can also be used with chronic pain. It is not a subustitution for proper medical care and cannot cure medical conditions. Yet hypnosis is appropriate when a treated chronic condition causes pain, such as with arthritis or migraines, or when there is persistent pain that doctors have tested extensively but cannot find a cause for. In these cases hypnosis can help you to understand that pain is a subjective experience and that we can change the way we choose to experience it. For example you could bang your funnybone when you are playing with a child and it will be, in fact, funny. But if you were to bang that same bone upon coming home after a hard days work it would actually be quite painful. Hypnosis helps to change the way in which you judge what is painful as well as to adjust the experience of pain within the body.