Comments on: What Hurts? http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/body-mind-psychotherapy-what-hurts/ Exploring Healthy Psychotherapy Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:06:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Lee LMHC http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/body-mind-psychotherapy-what-hurts/#comment-24056 John Lee LMHC Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:22:34 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=4853#comment-24056 I just got back from a terrific conference by the Florida Society of Clinical Hypnosis. FSCH is a branch of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis which is recognized by the AMA and the APA. The conference was about medical hypnosis which includes Chronic Pain. I saw a clinet today! I asked him what he does that sometimes helps his pain. He responed by stating he reads non stop! I asked do you notice loosing track of time when you get into the story. His response was yes! I then asked how was your level of pain as you were reading. His response was "Ya know my pain was almost gone as I really get into the story. I then suggested to him that he was in a natural state of hypnosis. That while he was reading he distracted the perceptor in his mind away from his pain! Yes! We can use our minds and we can strenghten our minds by practicing meditation, self hypnosis or reading a great novel. We can learn to better manage our pain by learning how to distract our perceptors from our pain! I am a chronic pain survivor! I practice self hypnosis every day. I teach people how to pratice pain control utilizing self hypnosis. Great article. John Lee LMHC I just got back from a terrific conference by the Florida Society of Clinical Hypnosis. FSCH is a branch of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis which is recognized by the AMA and the APA.

The conference was about medical hypnosis which includes Chronic Pain. I saw a clinet today! I asked him what he does that sometimes helps his pain. He responed by stating he reads non stop! I asked do you notice loosing track of time when you get into the story. His response was yes! I then asked how was your level of pain as you were reading. His response was “Ya know my pain was almost gone as I really get into the story. I then suggested to him that he was in a natural state of hypnosis. That while he was reading he distracted the perceptor in his mind away from his pain!

Yes! We can use our minds and we can strenghten our minds by practicing meditation, self hypnosis or reading a great novel. We can learn to better manage our pain by learning how to distract our perceptors from our pain!

I am a chronic pain survivor! I practice self hypnosis every day. I teach people how to pratice pain control utilizing self hypnosis. Great article.

John Lee LMHC

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