SOME POINTS OF SPECIFIC PAIN CONTROL TECHNIQUES

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• You can be asked under the hypnotic state to imagine going backward in time ‘to a time long ago, before any pain or discomfort, when you were full of energy and had a sense of complete well-being — and, when you return to the normal waking state, you will feel again that same sense of well-being. ‘ Hypnotic distortion of time can be used either to lengthen periods of discomfort or to apparently shorten periods of intense pain: ‘As a result of your new capacity to relax, time will now seem to fly whenever you experience periods of intense pain. On the other hand, time will move very slowly indeed with every second stretching out so that you can enjoy those periods when discomfort is at a minimum and so use them as positively as possible.’

• Other techniques involve asking you to transform your pain into a visual image that can be manipulated in the imagination. ‘Now see your pain. What shape is it? A triangle? A circle? Perhaps a pyramid or a cube? See its colour? Is it red? Yellow? Purple? Perhaps another colour? Now change the shape and colour. The new shape and colour are definitely not compatible with your pain.

Or the red balloon image: ‘Imagine you’re out in an open green field somewhere. It’s a beautiful day. The sky is a brilliant blue. Wisps of fleecy clouds drift lazily by. Near you, tethered by a rope attached to a peg on the ground, is a large red, helium-filled balloon. There’s a large wicker basket hanging beneath it. Now, imagine that you’re loading into the basket all of your pain and discomfort. You now free the balloon from its peg, allowing it to float into the air. See how vivid the rising red balloon looks against the blue sky.

The balloon is disappearing with all of your pain and discomfort.’

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