Pain is a problem that every human being experiences at one time or another in their lives. No two people react to pain in the same way. We all experience pain according to our individual emotional, cultural, and physical make-up. There is no simple relationship between the source of a sensation of pain and the amount of pain an individual experiences.
Acute pain from an illness, injury, or surgery is usually short lived and can usually be relieved with medication, heat, cold, or just rest. Chronic pain is something else, it is an entity of its own. It eats away at the quality and value of human life. For people who find themselves living in constant pain they can have pain so great that they can no longer function or they must stop working, they cannot get around and socialize or even take care of themselves.
Chronic pain sufferers characteristically endure some or all of the following feelings and conditions: hopelessness, depression, uselessness, hostility, anxiety and many more. They are often alienated from friends or family who sometimes lose their patience to deal with chronic pain complaints. They are frequently exhausted monetarily as well as emotionally by the search for medical relief. Many times surgical procedures undertaken to relieve pain only serve to increase it. Chronic-pain sufferers may become addicted to drugs to help control their pain, and then find that the drugs don't even work after a while.
The stress of chronic pain can also cause problems with breathing, digestion, blood pressure, heart and kidneys. Chronic pain sometimes develops after a specific illness or injury, continuing long after any identifiable physical cause can be found. During periods of illness or recovery from injury, patients sometimes learn to express suffering of a nonphysical nature in terms of physical pain.
The fact that the ways in which we suffer are to some extent learned doesn't mean we want to suffer or that our pain is "all in our heads" and without physical cause. Nevertheless, some people are incapacitated by conditions that others are able to accept and live with, even though they have some amount of constant pain.
For me, I broke my knee cap in 1989 and have to date refused a knee replacement that the doctors insist I need. Now they may be correct that I need that surgery but I decided to go another route. I consistently use mind over matter techniques and the pain is often absent or minimal and yes I work out daily!
The ways we learn to experience pain and cope with pain are related to the ways we function in the world in general. A child who experiences an extended illness, for example, may have his or her feelings of dependence and sickliness unconsciously reinforced by family and friends. Sometimes being in pain is the only way to get love and support from others. I had a 75 year old woman with nerve ending pain from what she described as "having them buried wrong after a mastectomy." After completing hypnosis and now pain free she wanted her pain back! She was not happy to simply have to travel around the country with her husband in their Winnebago! In other situations, pain can provide a way out of life's problems. Thus, the "problem" of pain may in fact be a "solution" to some other problem. A person who hates their job but cannot give it up gracefully can retire due to a physical pain condition. If a person doesn't find satisfaction or a sense of worth from their life, being a chronic invalid can seem like an acceptable alternative. Some people believe that they deserve to suffer. They accept pain as a purifying punishment for their real or imaged failings.
Sometimes we may involve ourselves in pain games; we don't feel well, so we manipulate others into doing our work or looking after us, or just leaving us alone. Some people find a meaning for their lives in challenging the medical world to diagnose and treat their pain. Other times, we make our own pain traps. We give up as soon as we feel any pain, putting ourselves to bed and waiting for it to go away. Inactivity leads to muscle degeneration, itself a source of continuing pain and current studies support the idea that we need to keep moving our bodies even when in pain.
Still other times I have found patients that eliminate and minimize their angers, frustrations upsets and inner turmoil and hence release the normal chemical flow necessary to feel "good" and pain dissipates. Also, it is well known that people who have had limbs missing often report feeling the pain of their existence. The body remembers pain and when the thoughts, mind, are weakened the pain will return to the same place in the body, as it remembers the familiarity of the pain. I have also find it to be true that on "good" days, patient's pain is decreased. Hence, through Hypnotizing individuals and teaching them relaxation techniques they decrease the inflammations in their bodies and in turn decrease their pain and often rid themselves of pain permanently and hence they have many more "good" days.
If our mind plays a large role in determining how we experience pain, it can also help us overcome it. After all, studies show that we only use 10% of our brain....HMMMM....I'd like to know what the other 90% is doing? Evidence from studies, including recent studies on the effectiveness of placebos, shows us the body's own healing capacities. The power of our minds to affect our experience of pain appears to be vast. Together, mind and body can reduce suffering.
So how does the mind help the body relieve pain? By triggering the release of the body's natural painkiller. Called endorphins - literally, "morphine within", these complex substances affect the body very much like a narcotic. By "talking" to our bodies, we can learn to control endorphin release, easing pain without the side effects of powerful human made drugs. This inner dialogue also contacts the autonomic nervous system. Which controls such involuntary functions as heart rate and digestion and plays a critical role in the relief of chronic pain.
Researchers and practitioners of pain control point out how important the way we perceive and interpret pain are in determining our experience of its intensity and location. But, perhaps more important, is that it can give us valuable clues as to how we, as Hypnotist, can help our patients relieve pain.
Dr. John Biesler, director of the Biesler Center for Allied Therapeutics in Los Angeles and author of FREE YOURSELF FROM PAIN described the case of John, a 52 year old cardiologist, who lived with constant, agonizing low back pain following treatment for rectal cancer. The doctor arrived at the Center contemplating suicide. He was able to describe his pain with terrible vividness, likening it to a dog chewing on his spine. Biesler convinced John to make contact with the dog, to talk to it, to find out why it was chewing his spine and, somehow, to make it stop. After several sessions of getting John to relax, they got in contact with the dog. Then John started talking to it - and the dog talked back. The dog said John never really wanted to be a doctor on the first place; he wanted to be an architect, but his mother had pressured him into medical school.
As a result, his resentment was directed at his mother, his colleagues and his patients. It was also directed inward, the dog said, and had contributed to the development of his cancer (deep seated resentment) and his low back pain(concern of financial security). The dog told John he was a good doctor. "It may not be the course you wanted, but it's time you recognized how good you are at what you do. When you stop being so resentful and start accepting yourself, I'll stop chewing on your spine." These insights were accompanied by an immediate easing of the pain and during the following weeks it slowly subsided.
There are many other case studies of the miracle of pain relief, I get to see it everyday! I had a 42 year old woman who consistently had migraine headaches. She spent lots of time in her doctor's office and taking medications that ultimately did not relieve her pain. Through my healing process she learned to say "NO!" and when that took place the migraines disappeared.
Each human is an individual and must look at their own situation. I believe that once a patient knows the underlying causation of an ailment, healing begins. In my studies and private practice I have witnessed "miracles." People who want to be will and they will find away to communicate with their pain and release it and they are then provided with deep insights for their own personal healing and growth.
Until next time. "BEE" Well, Dr. Karen Frank aka The Bumble Bee Lady
Karen Frank holds a Docotrate degree in Metaphysics and is the Founder and President of Dr. Karen Frank's Center for Holistic Wellness and Healing Hypno-Harmonics, a CD series for self hypnosis. She is a frequent guest on Radio shows nationwide and teaches in the United States as well as other countries. A published Author and accomplished motivational speaker and trainer, Dr. Frank has more than 20 years of experience and research as a Medical Hypnotist and a background in Nursing.
Karen is also a certfied F.I.R.E. walk Instructor and addresses hundreds of groups each year teaching people in the areas of personal and professional growth. She has helped thousands to discover their own full potential since she has come from welfare, food stamps and homelessness. Her fantastic success ratio is attributed to her winning motivational abilities and in part her profound understanding of individuals' readiness and acceptance toward healing themselves through her guidance.
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