How to achieve analgesia and even anaesthesia without drugs
The brain can respond in surprising ways to a hypnotic request for pain reduction
" We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have ."
- William Shakespeare
I never seem to appreciate not being in pain . But it ' s great to be grateful ,[ 1,2 ] and it ' s all too easy to take being pain-free for granted . There are millions right now who would give anything to have some respite from their agony .
Intense , excruciating , burning and grinding pain , while we suffer it , becomes the whole world to us - or , more accurately , an all-consuming hell . So not being in pain is to be appreciated .
But there are psychological methods that can help us to help clients in pain .
Hypnosis and pain relief