Our muscles tend to tense up due to pain. Here, our therapist teaches you to relax those muscle groups that tense-up using the hypnosis mind tools. When the body relaxes, the mind follows suit, thereby preventing the individual’s susceptibility to stress and anxiety. The therapist employs a progressive relaxation technique, wherein you will be asked to deliberately tense your muscles and relax them. This way the body learns to relax the muscles even during chronically painful episodes.
Hypnosis aids in distracting the individual from pain through visualization techniques wherein the individual is encouraged to visualize being anesthetized, or being pervaded by a specific color, or dialling down numbers that remedies pain. This kind of technique is known to be highly effective in bringing down pain. For example, IBS ‘gut-directed hypnotherapy’ involves using visualisations to calm the gut and digestive systems. You are also encouraged to practice self-hypnosis for pain relief post-therapy.
Last, through Havening, wherein through sensory stimuli or touch by the therapist, delta brain waves are induced in the individual. These waves are integral to the lessening of pain and associated symptoms of stress and anxiety in the individual. Havening has been known to down regulate response to memories and stimuli that induce pain, mitigating the heightened pain response of the brain.
