CONTROLLING AND MANAGING PHYSICAL PAIN
Long lasting, chronic pain, which cannot efficiently be resolved by medical treatment, often causes psychological difficulties such as worry, anger, fear, depression, feelings of loss, anxiety - problems with resting and sleeping, and difficulty in relating. |
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I will help you to discover and resolve whatever causes you internal tensions, by this I mean - the psychological and emotional tensions that intensifies and exaggerates physical pain.
Undeniably, chronic pain can be a serious handicap to living a full life. Maintaining an emotional and psychological positive attitude – whilst experiencing chronic pain is enormously difficult.
Always respectful of your pace, I will help direct your attention to those areas that are compounding, and often exaggerating the physical pain – and I will find skills and strategies for you personally that will bring about relaxation and change.
I provide a professional and compassionate support system to help you achieve the positive changes that you need.
One simple example, you might be asked to note how many thoughts and attitudes you have each day that are psychologically and emotionally painful.
Then with support from me, you will be helped to recognise those thoughts and attitudes that cause distress in your body. I will work with you to deconstruct those particular thought patterns.
One of the problems with negative or destructive thoughts and thought patterns is that they have become so habituated that they are now deeply unconscious. That is – you are no longer consciously aware that they, the negative, destructive thought patterns, are continuing deep within the mind, you can no longer hear them and yet they are actually affecting the sensations and tensions in the body. I have skills that will enable you to become aware of these deeply unconscious thoughts.
I am highly qualified in the safe use of hypnotic analgesia. Pain causes anxiety, which increases the pain, which increases the anxiety and so on. The deep relaxation afforded by hypnosis interrupts the cycle.
The safe use of hypnosis in Pain Management has many advantages. Hypnosis facilitates analgesia and can give you control over the experience of pain and enable you to cease feeling helpless. Hypnosis has no side effects nor is it addictive. I will in no way be suggesting that your chronic pain is psychogenic.
We all know that every person is unique and you will be able to experience trance and receive the benefits of hypnotic analgesia safely, in your own unique way. Hypnotic techniques – utilised by the extraordinary wisdom of the mind – have amazing results in creating analgesia.
Mysterious as it may seem to you at the moment there are many techniques of analgesia which will give you regular rest periods from the pain. How does this work, you may be wondering? – Several ways, and I will talk with here about four of those ways.
One technique is distraction – You will, I am sure, have heard many stories such as a person severely injured in an accident – who will keep on walking to find help for themselves or for another person. Once help is found – then they actually feel the pain which up until then they had not noticed! This kind of distraction we have formulated into techniques which we can teach to you. Every day, several times a day you will be able to use such skills as distraction. We can discover something together, which will be able to become so fascinated with, that your mind will experience distraction to such an extent that for regular periods you will become unaware of the pain.
A second technique is dissociation – In simple terms I can show you methods as if you become outside for your body for a while – as if you were miles away. In my profession we learnt how to teach dissociation – by observing how people (who dissociate) do it! Particularly young children. Young children can often infuriate adults by their behaviour of being miles away. Young children spontaneously dissociate – when experiences are bewildering, confusing, boring or painful. Very wise of them!
A third technique is time distortion – Again in simple terms, I do not want to get ‘long winded’ here, and of course you are always more than welcome to contact us for further information, I will teach you how to distort time. That is, if an intensely painful period of time lasts lets say an hour and a half – I can teach you how to make the experience of that period of time much, much shorter – An hour and half can feel like a few minutes.
A fourth technique is epistemological metaphor – Again in simple terms I enable you to develop a metaphor which is unique to your knowing how you experience the pain – which will be something like this – “It’s sharp and hard and stabbing like a knife…..” together we can develop more information about the sharp, hard stabbing knife – in such as a way as we transform the metaphor – lets says – into something softer, less hard – no longer stabbing – so that for longer and longer periods of time – the experience will be less uncomfortable for you.
There are many more techniques such as these to create analgesia.
FREE ASSESSMENT CONSULTATION
Your first session will be an ASSESSMENT CONSULTATION. This session is FREE of charge. You will be able to ask me all the questions you need and also inform me of anything that you think and feel is important and relevant. I will establish with you what you need and want to achieve from your Therapy and structure for you a treatment plan.
However if I think that working with me does not seem to be the most effective method of resolving your difficulties, symptoms or problem I will be able to talk to you about other ways you can receive help that could be more beneficial.
If you have an idea of what you would like to achieve from working with me please go to appointments to book your ASSESSMENT CONSULTATION
If you need further advice or information about pain management and hypnotic analgesia and what we can do to help you, we will be delighted to hear from you. You will find us friendly, professional and we will treat anything you may say or ask us in the strictest confidence.
Email: sandie@excellentrapport.com
OR please telephone: Sandie – 0191 5110368
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Sandie - +44 (0)191 5110368
Postal enquiries – Office address:
Excellent Rapport Ltd
Bridge House
30 Melsonby Close
Sunderland
SR3 2QL
UK
Your FREE ASSESSMENT CONSULTATION will be booked for you at a time and date that is convenient for you and will last for approximately one hour. This session is Free – and can be done by phone, SKYPE, or face to face at my consulting rooms in Keswick, Cumbria, in the English Lake District. If travelling to Keswick for a weekly session is unwieldy for you I can often conduct Therapy Sessions by phone. However face to face Work, though not always essential, can often be much better, in that for example, by phone you may tell me that you are comfortable and relaxed, and face to face I can observe from you breathing, heart rate and so on that in fact you are uncomfortable.
Also go to Therapeutic Breaks in The Heart of the English Lake district for information on our accommodation – which is a sweet cosy cottage, which sleep four people right on the banks of the beautiful River Greta.
Many clients who have worked with me have often said: “I have several of the symptoms on your list – where do I begin?” during your ASSESSMENT CONSULTATION I will help you to discover where you need to begin, and often several symptoms or problems will be resolved and healed during the course of therapy.
Whatever your problem I can help you!
