Category: Pain
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When Pain Isn’t a Problem Anymore

I have been in both intense physical and emotional pain. Recently I had an operation with a local anesthetic. I was prescribed antibiotics and pain killers but the pharmacy couldn’t give me the pain killers without some sort of additional consent from my surgeon – even though he had just prescribed them that same day.…
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Why I Focus on Results Not Sessions

When you’re in pain, you’re looking for results… If you have a problem with your tooth, you want to fix the pain asap. You go to the dentist you want a result. If the dentist sold you a package of sessions to fix the pain slowly, and do a little bit of work each time,…
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Not Feeling the Flow with Meditation?

Look at you… Sitting there mindfully. You’re ALL over the place. Ugh! Finally remembering all the things you forgot. Not sure if you’re doing it right… Shouldn’t you be focusing right now? So you try guided meditation. But you find it goes painfully slow… That’s right. Because it’s not your meditation. It’s someone else’s meditation,…
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Anxiety, Mindfulness & Hypnosis

How does using mindfulness to sit with difficult emotions compare with hypnosis? Here’s my painful 6 month experience… I used to wake up every day feeling a LOT of anxiety… Every day for over a decade. I would jump out of bed to try to escape the feeling. I wasn’t sure where it was coming…
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Proven Ways Hypnosis Helps Pain

There has been extensive research on hypnosis and both physical and emotional pain management. One of the ways hypnosis was originally used for was as an anesthetic. In the 18th and 19th centuries hypnosis was explored to alleviate pain during medical procedures by inducing a trance like state. James Braid coined the term “hypnosis” to…