If you are a migraine sufferer you will be pleased to know that hypnotherapy and other mind based therapies can give you long term relief and recovery from the causes and symptoms of your pain.
No Known Cure:
Migraines although very common are not highly understood by mainstream doctors, so as yet the medical world has not found a “cure”.
That does not mean however that you cannot resolve your migraines, but rather that there is no magic pill that will resolve everything.
The Mind Body Link:
It is well documented that our thoughts, feelings, beliefs and behaviours have an enormous impact on our physical wellbeing, as the mind and body are intrinsically linked i.e. everything you do with one will have a direct physiological response on the other.
Chronic pain and that includes migraines are no exception to this phenomenon.
Clinical evidence:
There is also scientific evidence that the degree of “suffering” i.e. the full impact of migraine on your capabilities.
It is therefore not necessarily about the intensity or frequency of the migraines, but our attitudes and feelings about the migraines themselves.
As with most chronic pain conditions emotions and fears play a huge role, leading to increased frequency and decreased quality of life for many migraine sufferers.
Any recovery programme therefore needs to take into account these aspects if it is to be fully effective.
Something that is absent when attempting to find relief through medication,
Mainstream drugs have be found to offer no more relief than placebo’s, yet are often increased over time despite their ineffectiveness.
A learnt behaviour:
Even though a Migraine is often triggered by emotional or physical stimulus, initial and subsequent attacks may result from the nervous system becoming particularly sensitive to these stimuli.
A case of the brain filtering: When have I been here before and what could be wrong with it?
These may include Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE’s) as well as triggers such as exercise, lighting, hunger, tiredness, foods, alcohol, perfumes.
Whatever your initial causes and triggers the result is the same when something is repeated enough or has a significant impact – the patterns become ingrained in the nervous system, resulting in migraine attacks slowly becoming wired into the brain.
The good news:
This neurological sensitization to pain can be undone, in whole or in part, through education and exercises that help the brain to let go of past stressors and learn new, less painful neurological patterns.
Hypnotherapy, ACT (acceptance therapy), CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), NLP, Mindfulness and other mind based therapies have all be proven to assist in this process.
Achieving the best recovery for you will therefore need to take your history and individual situation into account, enabling us to remove these triggers – IEMT is the fastest and most effective solution here.
Then also providing you with a tried and tested roadmap that covers all aspects of the condition.
How we can help:
The Healthful Mind approach covers all these bases through a step by step process alongside daily ongoing support through hypnotherapy, IEMT, NLP, meditation, breath work and daily healthful habit recordings to ensure you have all you need for long lasting relief and recovery.
If you are interested in having your migraines or chronic pain or health issue assessed then contact us at the Healthful Mind Clinic to book your free Healthful Mind Assessment.
Call us to book on 0333 772 6233 or email info@healthfulmindclinic.co.ukÂ