iLAB - Do you experience chronic pain?If you were free of your chronic physical or emotional pain would that be detrimental to you in any way?If the answer is no, and you want to be free, then listen to this audio. It will guide you through The Arrow Technique which reliably reduces or eliminates useless and unnecessary pain. (1)Chronic pain, whether physical or emotional, remains a significant burden for both individuals and society.Standard medical treatment for chronic pain is often inadequate, and it is common for frustrated patients to seek costly treatments from multiple health care professionals, often without significant relief.Growing awareness of the limitations of currently available pain treatments make the use of suggestion-based techniques and self-hypnosis an attractive component of pain treatment.Obviously we all know what pain is. However if we are to help ourselves to alleviate it, it is useful if we can first define or describe pain. This allows us to examine what makes it up and target our intervention accordingly. The clinical psychologist and renowned expert in chronic pain Dr. Bruce Eimer defines it this way.Pain is a subjective experience, that normally feels unpleasant, like something in the body has been, or is being damaged or destroyed; that feels like a threat to or interference with one’s ongoing functionality and health; and that is associated with negative emotions, such as fear, anxiety, anger or depression. (2)This definition acknowledges that pain contains several elements1. Bodily sensation, with qualities like those experienced during or after tissue-damagingstimulation.
2. An experienced threat or interference with functionality associated with this sensation.3. An emotional feeling of unpleasantness or other negative emotions.In other words, pain has a sensory / physical component and an affective / emotional component.They are often intertwined within the experience of pain.One of the keys to relieving pain is to disentangle these two components:the sensory / physical from the affective / emotional.Pain may be mandatory, but suffering, or some portion of it, is it seems optional.Without the emotional element reduced, what is left of the sensation simply does not hurt as muchPain is neither all in ones head, nor all in ones body. The important thing to understand is that our experience of pain has a large subjective component to it, and it is this which you are able to learn to modify.The next important step is to understand the difference between acute pain and chronic pain.Acute PainThis is pain that is of recent origin. The immediate pain when you stub your toe or burn yourself is acute. The new pain from a recent injury is acute. With appropriate care and treatment acute pain is supposed to subside. Acute pain keeps us from destroying ourselves. It is 'useful' pain.When pain lasts beyond that time, beyond it's usefulness, it is considered to be chronic pain.Chronic PainThis is persistent pain that has outlived it’s usefulness. It has lasted past the point of needing to alerted to a danger, threat or injury needing to be tended to, corrected or escaped. It is pain that has not responded to appropriate medical care. It is unrelenting and unremitting.
It is useless and unnecessary pain.
Listen to the audio and let us know how your experience changes?(1) The Arrow Technique was created by Freddy Jacquin and can be learnt at www.jacquinhypnosisacademy.com(2) Eimer. Bruce. Hypnotize Yourself Out of Pain Now! 2008. Crown.
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