Pain Management & Relief
Learn how to manage pain naturally and effectively using mind body medicine techniques.
Physicians and behavioral specialists use clinical hypnosis, relaxation response training, and other forms of mind body therapy to help their patient's experience significant comfort and relief from pain.
Professionals in major medical facilities such as Stanford University Medical Center use a variety of mind body medicine techniques to successfully reduce and manage pain.
Effective methods to reduce pain include relaxation response training, mindfulness training, cognitive behavioral therapy.
With the help of an experienced professional, you can learn how to harness the power of your mind to improve your quality of life, and renew and revitalize your mind and body.
Benefits of mastering these pain reducing skills:
Dr. David Speigel at Stanford School of Medicine has written several articles regarding the application of clinical hypnosis in the treatment of pain. Clinical hypnosis has been used for over a hundred years to reduce and alleviate pain. Pain control is one of the oldest and most widespread uses of clinical hypnosis.
According to Dr. Speigel there are four ways clinical hypnosis can be used to reduce pain:
1. Alter how the brain responds to the pain signal. You can turn down a part of the
brain called the anterior cingulate gyrus that helps you focus and pay attention, altering
the perception of the pain signal.
2. Alter the emotional response to pain. Pain is the physical signal, suffering is the
emotional response to that signal. Hypnosis can help reduce the emotional response of
suffering and reduce anxiety, anger, worry or frustration.
3. Shift attention. Hypnosis can help you shift attention to other senses or external
stimuli. If what we focus on increases, when we shift our focus off the pain, people tend
to experience a reduction of pain.
4. Elicit relaxation. Hypnosis induces relaxation, thus reducing muscular tension that
exacerbates pain, soreness, tenderness, and discomfort.
Click here to watch a 6 minute video where Diane Sawyer interviews Dr. Speigel on Good Morning America and discusses how clinical hypnosis can alleviate pain.
Physicians and behavioral specialists use clinical hypnosis, relaxation response training, and other forms of mind body therapy to help their patient's experience significant comfort and relief from pain.
Professionals in major medical facilities such as Stanford University Medical Center use a variety of mind body medicine techniques to successfully reduce and manage pain.
Effective methods to reduce pain include relaxation response training, mindfulness training, cognitive behavioral therapy.
With the help of an experienced professional, you can learn how to harness the power of your mind to improve your quality of life, and renew and revitalize your mind and body.
Benefits of mastering these pain reducing skills:
- Improved quality of life
- Increased desire to engage in social activities
- Increased pleasure in day to day activities
- Increased energy and mental clarity
Dr. David Speigel at Stanford School of Medicine has written several articles regarding the application of clinical hypnosis in the treatment of pain. Clinical hypnosis has been used for over a hundred years to reduce and alleviate pain. Pain control is one of the oldest and most widespread uses of clinical hypnosis.
According to Dr. Speigel there are four ways clinical hypnosis can be used to reduce pain:
1. Alter how the brain responds to the pain signal. You can turn down a part of the
brain called the anterior cingulate gyrus that helps you focus and pay attention, altering
the perception of the pain signal.
2. Alter the emotional response to pain. Pain is the physical signal, suffering is the
emotional response to that signal. Hypnosis can help reduce the emotional response of
suffering and reduce anxiety, anger, worry or frustration.
3. Shift attention. Hypnosis can help you shift attention to other senses or external
stimuli. If what we focus on increases, when we shift our focus off the pain, people tend
to experience a reduction of pain.
4. Elicit relaxation. Hypnosis induces relaxation, thus reducing muscular tension that
exacerbates pain, soreness, tenderness, and discomfort.
Click here to watch a 6 minute video where Diane Sawyer interviews Dr. Speigel on Good Morning America and discusses how clinical hypnosis can alleviate pain.