Hypnosis for pain management
Pain management hypnosis has been shown to work to reduce the pain a person experiences. The painkillers residing in your body are responsible for this. These natural pain relievers are endorphins. Let’s see the origin of the name endorphin. Endorphin is the name of one of the brain’s neurotransmitters. When this neurotransmitter was first isolated in 1974, it was called endogenous morphine. This is just a medical phrase that means morphine produced by the body or the morphine of the body. Endorphin is an amalgamation of the two words.
Pain management hypnotherapy can access this natural morphine in your body and train your mind to access and activate the appropriate neurotransmitter to reduce the pain you feel. The pituitary gland and hypothalamus naturally produce endorphins during activities such as exercise (the so-called runner’s high is one example), being in love, which can produce a bit of an adrenaline rush, as well as experiencing an orgasm.
Like real morphine, endorphins produce good feelings by blocking bad feelings. In this case, bread. Your nerve endings send messages to your spinothalamic tract. These nerve endings receive their messages from sensations that affect your body. The sensations activate nerve endings that then transmit the messages to the spinothalamic tract, a pathway through the spinal cord.
The spinal cord is also called the white matter. In the white matter, there are fibers that then relay the message to your neurons, which relay the information to your thalamus. There are four main categories of messages: pain, itch, touch, and temperature. Have you ever hurt yourself and felt that initial number before the pain kicked in? The delay between the painful blow and the sensation of pain is due to endorphins.
As the nerve endings send their messages to the spinal cord, the body releases endorphins that slow down the next transmission of the pain signal to the thalamus. Relieving pain with hypnosis raises your endorphin level. You can see how the pain message is intercepted in your spinal cord by the increased level of endorphins and the general sensation of pain is mitigated by your body’s natural morphine.
Along with this natural pain relief are the messages that pain relief hypnotherapy sends to your subconscious. So, in addition to the natural physical pain relief, your subconscious is lowering your mental reaction to pain. Both the mind and the body work together to control pain. As your body feels less pain, your mind realizes the cessation of intense pain and begins to accept the positive messages within.
Your subconscious assures you that you are not in pain and the release of endorphins ensures that the pain subsides. If you are scheduled for surgery, or know someone who is, consider surgical recovery hypnosis to speed up the healing process and manage pain.