The old adage "no pain, no gain" simply isn't true. Think of all of the times pain has kept you from engaging in activities that you enjoy�perhaps playing tennis, running, fishing and even sitting can be impossible when you're in pain. Have you gained anything from missing out on memories?

However, the saying that "Pain is all in your head" can, in fact, be true. If that is the case, then the cure is all in your head, too. With hypnosis, pain can completely disappear. Despite what you may believe, hypnosis is simply a deep state of relaxation where messages can reach the unconscious mind more easily. In fact, with regular practice of a self hypnosis pain elimination regimen, you will find yourself much more tranquil over all.

Pain is a signal that something is wrong. So pain is actually a good thing. But once you have your physician check you out to make sure that the pain isn't signaling a dangerous condition like a tumor, its time to manage or even eliminate the pain.

There is no danger in a self hypnosis pain relief program. You can not "get stuck" in a hypnotic state. The worst that could possibly happen when you use hypnosis for pain management is that you might fall into a natural state of sleep for 20 or 30 minutes�think of all of the times that pain has prevented you from sleeping!

This is not to say that a hypnosis pain management system is the same as sleep, which is the biggest misconception about hypnosis. If you are asleep, you are unconscious. If you are not conscious, then you can't hear anything. If you cannot hear anything, then a hypnotist can't help you. Hypnosis is actually a state of keen awareness.

Even though you are consciously aware of everything, hypnosis pain management programs can address both physical and mental causes and introduce many effective avenues to eliminate pain. Medications only block the reception of the physical feeling of pain on a temporary basis, but hypnosis pain regimens can actually decrease the amount and strength of pain signals that you perceive. You can literally reprogram your body to send less pain-inducing chemicals to your receptors. This means that you can use fewer pain-killing drugs, or in many cases no drugs at all.

Endorphins are opiate like chemicals that are manufactured in the brain. They are the chemicals that cause athletes to get a high when they workout very hard. Using hypnotherapy, you can also learn how to program your brain create pain-relieving endorphins on demand and then send them to the painful part of your body where they are required.

Because of endorphins, the brain is capable of inducing analgesia, which is a light anesthesia, as well as full anesthesia (numbness). Medical journals are full of accounts both in pre-anesthesia days, as well as in modern times, when major surgery has been done under hypnoanesthesia.

Hypnosis can also be used to program the mind to direct your attention away from pain, and that will make you perceive much less discomfort. Additionally, hypnosis pain management programs can help our mind know and understand that the pain is there, but not to let us feel it. A qualified hypnosis pain relief professional will know how to completely address other hypnotic suggestions that will aid in your recovery.

A highly effective hypnosis pain remedy comes from Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. No doubt that after living with chronic pain, you may skeptical that a self hypnosis pain program will work. In many cases, NLP techniques actually work far better for modern thinkers than traditional hypnosis does because it was developed for people like you who are taught to question and analyze everything. When you to analyze you tend to throw up barriers to the acceptance of post-hypnotic suggestions.

Feelings of stress always make us perceive far more pain than we are actually experiencing. One of the most powerful NLP patterns for eliminating stress is known as the "Flash." This technique reprograms the unconscious mind to use thoughts that create stress to actually trigger thoughts that create feelings of relaxation instead. After you've used this technique, it will be difficult or impossible to think the thoughts that upset you, because your unconscious will instantly and automatically exchange them in a Flash for thoughts that relax you instead.

Hypnosis and pain relief go hand in hand. If you're tired of coping with medications that leave you incapable of driving or fully experiencing life, or worse, of living with the stabbing, shooting or throbbing pulsations of discomfort, a hypnosis pain elimination program can provide safe, natural and instantaneous relief.

Alan B. Densky, CH is an NGH certified consulting hypnotist and NLP Practitioner. He has developed a very effective pain relief hypnotherapy program. His site also offers a free video self-hypnosis blog, MP3 downloads, a comprehensive hypnosis research library and FREE hypnosis videos.