Headache

A headache and especially a migraine headache, are one common ailment that seems to travel across the horizon towards every human on earth, and mankind is forever searching a new cure. The easiest and fastest I have personally found is not that of an advil or aspirin, but that of hypnotic techniques. Unfortunately, people are often to lazy, and have grown accustomed to mab made tranquilizers. By the way, quite often people will say that there is no proof that hypnosis exists never mind its ability to work, and that no body knows how it works. You could always remind these people that the medical industry still has no idea what it is about aspirin that causes the elimination of a headache. Personally I think aspirin is just a placebo, and we think its going to work so it often does.

On this page we begin with the recommended routine one should follow to prevent lawsuits, and other unnecessary risks, followed by Milton Erickson's methods, and my own somewhat secret hypnotic techniques.

The Recommended Routine for the Elimination of Headaches and or Migrains.
a) First and foremost ask the client to have a referral filled out by his doctor. This is done to make sure there isn’t any medical challenge needing attention.

b) Verify the referral. This verification is basically the therapist’s insurance policy, and it makes for good business with the medical profession, with the added benefit of advertising your vocation.

c) Client pre-induction interview. Very important to get the history behind the client’s challenge; include when the problem began, how often, any specific circumstances, duration, and any past methods of alleviation attempted.

d) Depending on the information provided during the interview, any number of hypnotic techniques can be attempted. One of the first techniques I would almost always use, is teaching the client self hypnosis to relax, because very often simply relaxing reduces or eliminates tension.

If more work was needed, I would move up to “object projection” using a little NLP. I have found that by clearly describing a pain, using specific language, one builds a tangible structure. With this done, have the client alter thew headache in some way, to teach them that they have control of it, at which point they can finally reduce or eliminate it altogether.
If the simple stuff doesn’t work, I would then move into “parts therapy”, or NLP reframing to find the cause, and work from there.
At the very least, the client is bound to get some relief with any of these techniques.

Milton’s approaches upon the relief of headaches with his patients have been extremely varied much like the rest of his work, always a new experiment it seems. The funny thing is, so much of what he did worked so well, I find myself wondering if he was actually looking for what might not work. Anyhow, he did everything from using the interspersal of calming hypnotic suggestions covertly placed within his patter as exemplified in the article about the nurse with the headaches who took dictation on pg. 276 Volume IV of "The Collected Papers Of", to analyzing his patients’ life history. Some subjects he would regress to the beginning of such headaches, so that a patient would gain a new learning relieving his unconscious pain. With other’s he provided a regime of steps beginning with rest for calming, along with further measures applied to relieve the person’s life stresses such as the women written about on pg. 248, 249 of the same volume listed above.

I, myself, have applied mild trance and waking hypnosis on friends, family and clients using a variety of techniques which have worked well on most. I have found, for those with headaches in the temples that the simple act of visualizing the palms of their hands turning red, as I continued to speak for a few minutes about their palms warming up and finally igniting a little bonfire that gets hotter and hotter and bigger and bigger, as their hands get redder and redder. Then I’ll simply look into their eyes and say, “It’s so nice to feel so comfortably relaxed”. I often find it rather funny because those which I have applied this technique on, come back to me asking how I lost their headache, of which, they forgot existed temporarily. It seems that the simple act of imagining the palms glowing red, redirects the person’s blood flow to the hands relieving the excess pressure in the head.

For tension headaches, and for those who aren’t so visually attuned, I apply the same techniques, but I begin with the application of an acupressure point in the hands, then in the back of the neck at the third vertebrae about one inch to either side. The pressure points somehow provide for a temporary mild blockage, then inrush of blood allowing the flow to return to normal. Once coupled with the visualization of red hands, most people get relief rather quickly. In fact, enough people have had such astounding relief that I have built up a reputation as a powerful magician. Go ahead, just ask me more about these secret pressure points, they are something incredible.

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Within my circle of family and friends, when someone has head pain, they either come to, or are sent to me if they haven't yet experienced what i could do for them, and within a few minutes, not only is there discomfort gone, but they've often forgotten about any previous discomfort. With this program you will learn to quickly access the trance state on your own, without any special devices, and either relax the discomfort away, or learn about its source, and remove it completely as you relax comfortably.

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