Imagine what it would be like to feel no pain, have more mobility, and experience renewed freedom in your life! 

How would your quality of life improve?

Are you beginning to feel that there’s nothing you can do about your chronic pain? 

Are you tired of taking analgesics and pain killers?

Chronic pain affects millions of Australians. It’s causes include: injury, an autoimmune disorder, stress or a serious medical condition.

Did you know that pain is your ‘friend’? It alerts you to the fact that something is amiss in your body. However,  if the diagnosis from your doctor is that your pain cannot be fixed medically and therefore is in the category of chronic pain, your brain will nonetheless keep on sending you pain. It doesn’t understand “chronic” unless it’s thoroughly explained to the unconscious mind through interaction by hypnosis.  The “files” relating to your pain need to be changed! Hypnosis creates a path from your brain to your body.

Are you aware that Hypnotherapy can achieve very positive results in managing, reducing or even alleviating pain altogether? Today, hypnosis is being used to treat chronic pain as well as a wide variety of health problems.

How can Hypnosis Help Chronic Pain?

When a person relaxes into a hypnotic state, the unconscious mind then opens and listens to suggestions of changes you want for yourself. You see, the unconscious mind is 95% of your mind; it’s very very powerful.   It’s easy for the hypnotist to change the “files” it has regarding smoking, drinking too much alcohol, anxiety, depression, overeating, trauma, public speaking, phobias, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, dental pain, tics, fears, relationship break-up distress, lack of self-esteem, trichotillomania, binge eating, and chronic pain. Usually a deal of stress is associated with these problems, and stress is not at all supportive of good overall mood and health.

You’ve probably heard that stress can influence our overall health.  Hypnotic or ‘trance-like’ states have been used to treat physical and mental health since ancient times. Evidence of hypnosis techniques can be found in the bible dating back to 1500 BC! From there, hypnosis continued to be used and developed. Since then, hypnosis has been researched and developed scientifically. In the present day it is being used to treat a wide variety of health problems (see above paragraph).

Hypnotherapy uses relaxation and visualisation techniques to guide you into a state of deep peacefulness, reduced anxiety and increased creativity, which can be very useful with a patient who is tense, anxious or emotionally distressed.. In other words, it connects your mind and body. Once you are guided into a relaxed state, the therapist addresses you problem by directly communicating with your unconscious mind,

When someone has chronic pain, visualisation is one of the main methods of dramatically alleviating the pain. To the brain, what is imagined is real. Sometimes a patient will walk out of the hypnotist’s room with no pain at all. For example, there was a patient who couldn’t walk well due to arthritis in her knees. She left the room with zero pain and when seen by the therapist three weeks later, the pain was still non-existent. 

This big change in the patient’s life is totally due to the work the hypnotist does in explaining to the unconscious mind that the pain is no longer necessary.

You may have fears around the process of hypnosis itself, derived from watching stage or TV entertainment. Don’t worry!  Real, clinical hypnosis is not about making you act in a silly way that is out of your control. In fact the experience is so peaceful, relaxing and enjoyable that some clients go looking for another problem so they can experience more hypnosis!

In summary, hypnotic states have been used for healing since humankind has existed, but because hypnosis can be misused for so-called entertainment and has been portrayed in the media as something mysterious and magical, supposedly out of the hypnotic subject’s control, it has been viewed with distrust and scepticism by many health professionals. However, recent advances in neuroscience are giving evidence that the use of hypnosis is a useful and effective tool to help patients and health professionals manage a variety of conditions, especially anxiety and pain.