Experiences in pain ambulance
For a better understanding of the complex physical mental interdependency regarding
the appearance and supression of pain feelings we should consider the following
important insight as well: Our body has an ingenious immune system for pain,
the so-called endorphines. They are narcotics that are produced in the brain
and in the medulla. They are transferred to certain areas of the efferent
pathways and have an analgic effect. As there are such body-own “narcotics”
it is possible to drastically reduce or put off subjective sense of pain
by psychological impact.
American studies have verified that the common placebo-effect (the effect
of pseudo medicaments) in a pain-therapy is partly caused by endorphines.
In this way, the pain-reducing effect of stereo deep suggestions can be explained.
The reason why: A placebo is nothing else than another indirect suggestion.
“Those pills will definitely help me!” Consequently we can assume that it
is possible to stimulate the activation of body-own narcotics by direct verbal
influence.
In fact many studies have impressively demonstrated that not only acute pain
can be totally benumbed but also chronic pain can be reduced or eliminated
besides the therapeutic sessions by pure suggestion therapy. Even more: Compared
with the straight application of placebos, certain suggestions can effect
more intensively and permanently under specific preconditions.
That is why experiments have shown that the pain-reducing effect of pseudo
medicaments is neutralised by an endorphine-antagonist. This substance has
no effect if the pain therapy by suggestions that happened before was done
in a trance-similar relaxation condition: The test persons were free of pain
further on. We can conclude that next to the endorphines, other so far unknown
substances and processes are responsible for the realised improvement in
the suggestive pain therapy.
If you want to influence pain by the help of suggestions it does matter to
which critera the verbal models are build regarding contents and forms. Suggestions
in which pain-incompatible experiences are included are obviously especially
effective – for example the feeling of relaxation, pleasurable perceptions
or the oblivion / reinterpretation of painfull episodes.
In our psychological praxis it has been shown that direct suggestion (“If
you now open your eyes your pain will be disappeared.”) that has been imbedded
in no acoustical sourrounding, often has little success or even has caused
raised eyebrows of the patient. However if the relaxation music was underlayed
with speech, absolute no reaction of fear or inconvenience appeared. As soon
as the patient was offered an additional phantasy-walk (like on the beach
or in a flower field), we reached improvements of pain with the direct suggestion
too. The best results by far we had when we offered many indirect and direct
suggestion at the same time, besides the music and the plastic imaginations.
Obviously, this multidimensional approach unifies suggestive general conditions
that have been proven in many experiments as distinctively effective in successful
therapy of chronic pain: the reduction of alertness of the patient, a relaxation
of his/her physical mental tensions and conflicts, as well as a smooth deflection
strategy, by which his/her (unconscious) resistance has been “outfoxed” and
therefore his/her receptiveness and acceptance according to pain-reducing
suggestion could be distinctively increased.
According to those test results it can be concluded: It happens to different
extent but all pain- patients (no matter if organic or mental reason ostensible)
can reduce or eliminate their subjective feelings of pain in being supported
by a sensible used suggestion therapy. The programme "Pain relief" can help
you to evolve your own pain-reducing power source, to support your mental
balance and therefore drastically increase
your general well-being.