Hypnotherapy for Headache Pain Relief - By: Peter James Field

Headaches are painful experiences that most of us undergo from time to time.

Most often they simply fade away after just a short period and are gone as mysteriously as they appeared, with no real harm done.

Chronic headaches, however, ones that recur with regularity can really interfere with our healthy functioning, affecting our relationships and work life and seriously compromising us in so many areas of our existence.

It's essential to realise that any severe headache that lasts for 24 hours or longer - or one that is accompanied by a blurring of the vision or nausea and vomiting - means that you need to visit your doctor immediately.

Broadly speaking, there are 2 different types of headache - tension and cluster. (Migraine is something more than a headache and will be treated in a seperate article.) Medically speaking, the cause of both these kind of headaches is unknown.

Often though, tension headaches are exactly what the name suggests. They appear to be triggered by tension and stress, anxiety and emotional discomfort.

Poor posture can also play a part in the onset of this kind of headache, as can really bright light, food sensitivities, menstrual periods and even the weather.

Painkillers such as aspirin, paracetamol and ibuprofen can often help with the milder kind of headache, but the body can easily become habituated to these pharmaceuticals, greatly reducing their effectiveness.

As well, a phenomenon known as 'withdrawal headaches' can sometimes occur when these substances are withdrawn.

This kind of cluster headache can also seem to be triggered by such things as changes in temperature, odors and alcohol. Of course, they can just as simply appear with no clear and apparent reason at all.

This kind of headache simply does not respond to over the counter medication. Drugs available on a doctor's prescription include Sumatriptan and Ergotamine, but these powerful pharmaceuticals, like most others, can have considerable side-effects.

Wouldn't it be much better if we could access our own inner ability to control headaches, instead of depending on external substances for relief.

And this is where modern advanced hypnosis and hypnotherapy can be of real and lasting value.

With expertly delivered modern hypnotherapy your own subconscious mind can be taught to manage headaches without recourse to external medications and drugs. Through advanced transformational hypnotherapy you can learn to transform any headache into an insubstantial vapor that you can simply and easily exhale, leaving you free to continue on with a clear and untroubled mind.

In hypnosis you can learn to recognise the headache triggers before they occur - and then do something about them. You can learn to reverse the processs that generates the headache, and in so doing regain real control.

Headaches really don't need to ruin your day or control your enjoyment of it.

With the right kind of hypnotherapy you can draw a line under the pain and inconvenience of headaches and get on with your life.

About the Author

Peter Field is a leading British hypno-psychotherapist, with clinics in both Birmingham and London, England. He is a Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and Fellow of the Royal Society of Health. For hypnotherapy help and more of his interesting articles visit his website: Peter Field Hypnotherapy Hypnosis UK

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