Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy for Healing Injuries, Pain and Mind-body Conditions. No. 2.

by Brian Green, CCHT

I will continue with a case of Trigeminal Neuralgia, which is an inflammation of a cranial nerve that innervates the face and jaw. Known to be excruciatingly painful. The condition has been ascribed possibly to a virus. This was a male client in his mid-thirties who came for an unrelated issue. Noticing his face was asymmetric during my intake, as if he had had a minor stroke. I named the condition, and he assented it was indeed so. Three months earlier, he was on a different medication, started in a high-end hospital sobriety program, (and he was still sober). An "allergic" reaction to this medication was the presumed cause in this case.

Hypnoanalysis back to the time of onset in trance uncovered the following. "What was going on in your life at the time?" I asked. "My marriage was breaking up!" Processing/resolution of the partly suppressed and repressed feelings followed. It was an interaction between the action of the drug and his emotional nerve chemistry at the time. And perhaps a concurrent partly fused conversion symptom. (Displacement of emotional pain into physical pain). I then went on to his presenting issue. On emergence, his face was symmetrical; the pain by his report reduced 80/90%.

One week later, a small amount of pain remaining, I enquired in trance. "Tell me how the nerve appears when you picture it." "It is all pink, except a small circular gray "dead" patch that was the focal point of the nerve damage." I guided him to visualize it diminishing in size, changing color to a matching pink, the color of the healthy nerve tissue, etc. while simultaneously using hypno-linguistics, offsetting double binds, etc. as demonstrated in my hypnosis manual, to bring the damage and pain down progressively and in future to permanent zero. On return, two weeks later, no further treatment was necessary. I believe it would be hard to find an MD. who would believe Trigeminal Neuralgia could be accessible to a psychological and mental healing. If this man had indeed a coexisting viral infection, it was subsidiary or irrelevant.

In my experience also, a huge range of medical/physical problems can be primarily or partly the result of non-physiological factors. This particular area is a sub-specialty of mine. Hypnotherapy reveals that any physical, (or psychological), condition can have any source, so presuming medical generalities to be gospel only limits the hypno-practitioner's exploration unnecessarily. It is more useful to have a range of methods/tools such as hypno-analysis, regression, hypnotherapeutic healing and direct symptom alteration or removal available, than to rely primarily on information from medical or psychological "authorities". Not only unhelpful at times, they can prejudice the practitioner's mind and preclude other avenues of investigation. Medical, (and psychological) information may be a guide, but should not be given unquestioned credibility; it's just another set of potentially useful information to be tested out. There is a current growing tendency in both fields to analyze, identify and label difficulties, concretize and convert them into "factual" things, rather than ongoing processes that may be available for change. Openness and flexibility are the required qualities to be stressed. "Deal with what emerges." was Gil Boyne's phrase. He has a video of uncovering fear of rejection as a source of painful Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMJ), and one of a fear of maternal castration as the source of a severe stutter! So much for speech therapy in this case!

Another client, in his mid-fifties, had painful tendonitis and joint inflammation, in the right carpal/metacarpal wrist and thumb area, subsequent to putting his hand out to break a fall. He had tried every available medical remedy without success, including finally, a surgical resection of a tendon. In my intake, his employment was identified as a court reporter. I said, "You were a court reporter, and you were injured in the precise area absolutely required for your job, where you hold an implement to write, and it would not heal. You were disabled, and had to leave and get retraining. What a coincidence!" This time hypnoanalysis uncovered the following. He had wanted to leave his employment due being trapped in irresolvable difficulties produced by an aging judge in his hierarchy, who had become an arbitrary tyrant. He was unable to do so without losing many years of insurance/pension benefits. So he was trapped. But the injury allowed a medical release while avoiding these negative consequences. Unfortunately, his subconscious, only being aware of the timeless now, had continued maintaining the pain and injury long past the time needed, and presumably would have continued indefinitely without my intervention. After the insight gained from uncovering, suggested healing organized around the redundancy of maintaining the injury was communicated to the now connected conscious and other-than-conscious mind. Emerging from trance, he picked up a sheet of paper, and held it suspended between his right thumb and forefinger, saying, "This is the first time I have been able to do that for 2 years."

Incidentally, this relates to how the mind can prevent healing, as well as being directed to accomplish it. After two similar cases, I surmised it was not possible to reduce the pain and heal difficulties where legal monetary damages were pending, even if the case had been won. This was true despite a strong conscious desire for relief. Another hypnotherapist, and a couple of texts confirmed these facts. It appears the fears of letting go of control; until the money is actually in the person's possession, predominate. I wonder if deposit in their lawyers account is adequate, or only actual receipt into their own!

To show how different the causations of similar appearing conditions, viz joint pain, may be, here is a case of bursitis, painful inflammation of the shoulder joint. This gentleman had already healed shooting pains down his leg after uncovering a deeply buried teenage desire to kick his father in the testicles, for retaliation due to feeling his father was, (unintentionally as it appeared in retrospect), emotionally emasculating him by rendering his teenage self impotent. In a later session, he informed me that he was in great pain due to a flare-up of his long-standing chronic bursitis. I recalled Arthur Janov, in the first edition of "The Primal Scream." stating that an unexpressed anger can remain as a permanent stored tension in the body, and he used the desire to punch someone being stored in the arm as his example. Guided by an inspired guess, I took him back to that past state of mind in trance; and probed "At the time you wanted to kick him, did you also have an urge to punch him?" "Yes," he exclaimed immediately, as he re-experienced it. Then he said, "A ball of violet energy/light is emerging from my shoulder .. .. is moving and hanging in front of my eyes," where it remained for a few moments or so. On his return, he said his shoulder was still sore for a couple of days, (the inflammation perhaps needed time to subside). The pain then faded, and has not returned.

In my next and last casebook, I will detail relief of Acid Reflux, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, (IBS) Sudden Onset Arthritis, among others.

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