Hypnosis: Effective in handling pain

Increasing numbers of dentists, physicians and other healing arts professionals are using hypnosis to reduce or eliminate pain. The practice is highly effective. 

Where hypnosis is used, the need for injections of pain killers is minimized, reactions to drugs is often eliminated, healing and recovery is expedited. Hypnosis can also alleviate the pre-surgery anxieties, reducing stress dramatically. In an average hypnosis experience the subject will often feel a tingling or numbing of a hand or other part of the body. This is known as "glove anaesthesia", an early phase of the pain reduction process.

It is interesting that the anaesthesia experienced in the hand can, by the hypnotherapist, be transferred to any other part of the body-very useful in dentistry and medicine. A number of obstetricians are now using hypnosis, exclusively, in the delivery process. But in cases where chemical anaesthesia is advisable, the amount required will be significantly less. Most hypnotherapists will work with pain problems primarily in conjunction with a healing arts professional. This is because pain is a symptom, and it is vitally important to discover its source or cause. It would be unfortunate if a client, complaining of what he felt was a migraine headache, was relieved of the pain and paid no further attention to the matter-only to discover too late the pain was not a migraine but a brain tumour. 

Pain demands attention and investigation. An interesting use of hypnosis is the suggestion of time distortion, wherein hours of pain can seem like mere minutes.