How to Live with Chronic Pain

Worldwide statistics revealed that 88% of the adult population in the world suffers from chronic pains, more than half (65%) having pains more often than once a week. This effect is spread on a large scale, the affected ones saying that the pain affects their social (72%) and sexual (64%) lives every day, and 78% of those who are employed say the pain affects their professional lives.

 

Hypnotherapists believe that pain itself is an essential element in human survival, this being the way our body signals that something is wrong and we have to do something fast. Without this kind of signal, our life could be threatened. But when the pain has no useful purpose anymore, and we have nothing to learn from its message, it becomes just a force that manipulates our lives. Pain dramatically reduces the quality of life, both physically and emotionally; although pain is an extremely personal and subjective experience, it has effects that propagate beyond the sufferer. When we talk about pain, we always relate to two different types of pain – chronic or acute.

 

Pain intensified by stress and anxiety

Chronic pain lasts for at least 3-6 months or maybe even years, being interpreted by some of the sufferers as a disease itself. This type of pain can continue even after the lesion has healed or the disease that caused it has disappeared. There are also cases where pain comes and goes, but also cases where it is persistent and incessant.

 

If you experience pain regularly, it is important to consider managing chronic pain. The forms of therapy that address the connection between mind and body are often recommended for people who experience long-term pain. Stress and anxiety are frequent side effects of pain and may even make the sensation of pain increase. Chronic pain is supported by thought processes that are generated at subconscious level, and can often only be addressed by accessing this emotional level of being.

 

Improving pain through hypnosis

More and more people opt for hypnotherapy in order to reduce stress and change their perception of pain.

 

Rather than convincing you that pain does not exist, pain management techniques require you to manage any fear and anxiety you may have about your pain. Hypnosis also helps reduce stress and relax the nervous system to help make it less reactive to pain. Pain control hypnosis reorients your mind away from pain and helps you focus on something more enjoyable. Hypnosis has proven to be an extremely effective tool in alleviating suffering in many ways. It can be used to help reduce or eliminate physical pain and also cause a change in those with a variety of emotional and psychological conditions.

 

How to live with chronic pain

• Pain can be relieved by breathing. Learn deep breathing techniques that can help you relax.
• Reducing stress is an extremely important step because it increases chronic pain. Depression, anxiety, stress and anger can increase the body’s sensitivity to pain.
• Movement is needed because endorphins released by the brain during exercise can reduce chronic pain.
• Smoking affects blood circulation and can increase the sensation of pain.
• A healthy, balanced diet is ideal if you are experiencing chronic pain.