Hypnosis and Pain Reduction

Today, I was fortunate enough to see yet another wonderful example of how well hypnosis works for modifying, reducing or eliminating chronic pain.

It was the first session with a 44 year old woman who has been suffering with back and leg pain since 2004. She ruptured two lumbar discs in a fall. She later had surgery...which was successful, and, after a brief recuperation period, was pain free for all of 30 days, when she simply coughed one day, and damaged much of what doctors had repaired. That was in 2004; she has suffered with chronic and debilitating pain ever since.

The list of medications she has taken is rather long. Some have helped, of course, but to the degree most have helped, they have also made it hard for her to function in other ways.

Compounding her discomfort was a diagnosis 10 years ago of Fibromyalgia, and a childhood history of physical and sexual abuse.

After a two and 1/2 hour session, today, she was relieved to discover, that, even though she had been skeptical about whether hypnosis could help her, she was able to report a reduction of pain from 9 down to 4 on a scale of 1 -10.

Is she "healed" or "cured"? Far from it. She will require a few more sessions to learn how to induce the numbness on her own. She would also benefit greatly from addressing her past abuse issues.

However, what DID happen today was noteworthy; she now knows that her mind/body were responding, and that MORE is likely possible.

Vincent Harris
www.PhobiaGuru.com