Eliminate Two Thirds of Your Chronic Pain Now

As I walked through a major pharmacy chain store the other day, I stopped as I walked past the massive section of shelves that contained the seemingly endless supply of various lotions, liniments, and creams for arthritis, fibromyalgia and other types of physical pain.

Having been diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 1997, I remember all too well the constant search for the latest, greatest, miracle pain relieving product; the one that would eliminate the need for any effort on my part to improve my day to day comfort levels. Without hesitation, Ill tell you I probably purchased every product that was available that promised to banish the pain from the knotted and twisted muscles in my neck, back and shoulders, between 1996 and 1998. But something happened in 1998 that would forever change my life.

In December of 98, I enrolled in a hypnosis certification course, at the Hypnosis Training Institute of San Diego, in San Diego California. I had always been fascinated with the human mind, and different forms of accelerated learning and personal development, but this was a hands on training, with real time feedback, and experts in the area of hypnosis and NLP watching and evaluating our every move; it was an extremely intensive training.and I absolutely loved it.

After becoming a Board Certified Hypnotherapist, and Master Hypnotist, with an initial specialization in pain and healing in February of 1999, I started a journey that is still running full blast some 8 years later. When I initially enrolled in the hypnosis program, my goal was to simply learn the secrets of unlocking the part of my mind that would allow me to eliminate, regulate, or modify my pain and discomfort. Little did I know at the time, that I would eventually utilize this knowledge to assist people around the world to significantly enhance the quality of their lives.

Perhaps the most useful concept that I incorporate in my protocol for pain relief, is that of chronic pain consisting of a triad; 1/3 remembered pain, 1/3 actual pain, and 1/3 anticipated pain. Each third contributes to the overall gestalt known as constant pain. Understandably, this model is particularly useful, as 2/3s of the whole dont even exist outside of the life that we give them through focus of our attention.

When one is able to banish thoughts of yesterdays pain, or last weeks, or last months, and stop the frequent replays of past moments of pain, they will have successfully and effectively dealt with 1/3 of the discomfort. Likewise, when a person learns how to derail the old patterns of worrying about or anticipating how much they might hurt later today, or tomorrow, or at any other time in the future, they will have eradicated yet another 1/3 of the pain, for a total reduction of 2/3s of the previous pain.

Before you dismiss this as nonsense, lets take a look at this from a neurological perspective that nearly everyone has experienced countless time already. I dont know if realize this, but did you know that if someone had grown up since birth, and never experienced any form of pain, however slight it might be, they would not have the neurological signatures of pain in their neurology to be able to negatively react or wince when observing someone else having pain inflicted upon them.

Since most of us dont have a life history void of the experiences of pain or injury, we can identify with much of what we see others endure. Watching others in pain actually causes us to access neurological memories of the pain we have experienced, thus bringing aspects of that discomfort into the present, even when no actual stimuli for the pain exists.

The directors of horror movies rely on this mechanism to make us scream and contort our facial expressions as we watch the poor victim on screen get a screwdriver stabbed into their eye..did you feel that? While youve probably been fortunate enough to escape the screwdriver in the eye dilemma, you have most likely felt the pain of inadvertently poking yourself in the eye; you have a memory of discomforting experiences with your eye, and thats enough to cause you to squirm a little bit, just from reading about alternative uses for screwdrivers.

When I was in the throes of my fibromyalgia years ago, I would wake up each day, already knowing (anticipating future pain) how bad I would feel after I got out of bed. I knew this because thats how I had felt (remembering past pain) yesterday, and countless days prior to this particular morning. Interestingly enough, both anticipating pain, and remembering past pain, both contribute in a powerful way to the present moment. In short, when we learn to experience only what is present now, and stop amplifying that experience with the misuse of the past and the future we find that we have already transformed our reality.

Once you have successfully eliminated the needless intrusions of the past and the future on your present moments, you can then enjoy shifting the actual discomfort of now, with other leading edge strategies for altering the less than comfortable signals of your nervous system.

I know in my heart that anyone who is willing to take this concept, and begin to apply it to their own experience with chronic pain will find it to be as instrumental in finding relief as those I have been able to share it with personally over the years.

Vincent Harris is a professional speaker, trainer, and consultantand is an expert on the new science of happiness, positive psychology. Join his FREE weekly Newsletter today and get instant access to the FREE Special Report, " How to Make Others Crave to Be Near You" Just visit http://www.successpath.info/Consultations.html

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