HEALING JOINT PAIN WITH HYPNOSIS
by Kristy Thompson
Arthritis is not the only source of joint pain to affect our bodies. Old sports injuries and the residue of auto accidents can affect our bodies for years after one has supposedly recovered from the acute effects of the accident. Chronic emotional stress can also settle in the joints. In this article, David Quigley discusses HYPNOTIC MOVEMENT, a simple but dramatic technique that helps the joints recover their flexibility and strengthen the joints.
Hypnotic Movements are easy and pain-free to perform and take as little as 5 minutes a day. The concept of hypnotic movement is simple: the body has a deep inner knowledge of how it wants and needs to move in order to alleviate stress on the joint, increase healthy circulation, restore flexibility and relieve pain. These simple movements are easy and natural for anyone to experience. A simple example of this are the spontaneous and pleasurable stretches we instinctively perform upon waking up in the morning. Still being in the state between sleeping and waking, we are experiencing something similar to the relaxed trance induced under hypnosis.
This state of relaxation with increased body awareness is not the usual state of deep hypnotic trance that most hypnotists and their clients are familiar with, in which the body lies in peaceful repose, while a hypnotist leads you on a journey and offers hypnotic suggestions. This is a state of “alert trance”, just like that morning stretch, in which mild relaxation is combined with a profound awareness of our body and its feelings. This state is similar to the trance which athletes describe when they are running a marathon, or playing at their peak in a sports event. They call it being “in the zone”, a blissful state of stepping out of their daily worries and feeling merged with their body as it performs flawlessly in the sport. Sportsmen know this altered state quite well and seek it out in every competition and practice, even though few understand that it is a type of hypnosis.
While many of us have surrendered to our bodies’ natural hypnotic movements once in a while, few of us listen to our bodies’ needs for movement very often because we have as a culture been trained to override our bodies’ feelings and needs as children. How often were we as small children told to stop fidgeting (a movement little bodies should be doing lots of) when forced against our nature to sit still at a desk? Stop wiggling, sit still, no you can’t go to the bathroom, don’t make those noises. It is no wonder that most of us start regarding our bodies as a stupid object, a vehicle that at best carries us around, but then has all those aches and pains that we don’t understand. Then we are trained to believe that there is nothing we can do for our bodies’ pains except take it to a doctor who gives us drugs - in other words, we have lost the knowledge of our bodies’ healing powers.
The good news is that your body may have stopped making these healing movements years ago, but it still knows how to move in all those miraculous ways. All it needs is some help in awakening these latent inner powers through the aid of Hypnotic movement. We have achieved excellent results at the Institute in a wide variety of joint and movement related conditions including:
"I had been diagnosed with osteoarthritis in my right thumb and wrist and the surgeon had closed the book on me because I declined surgery. I was experiencing pain: I could not wrap my hand around a steering wheel to drive, nor write longhand, at times I could not hold a toothbrush to brush my teeth. I scheduled an appointment with David Quigley. We worked together for a couple of hours releasing the toxins that had built up in my system, then wiggling and moving the damaged areas, freeing them up from their painful, frozen positions. Afterwards, my inner healer cradled the area with warmth and color. The best part of this work was that I took all the information from that session home with me. David actually taught me how to heal myself! It took one session and I have been the master of healing my own pain ever since. If I start to feel the slightest pain, I utilize the stretches, imagery and healing energy he gave me that day and I am happy to say I am thrilled with the results."
Arthritis is not the only source of joint pain to affect our bodies. Old sports injuries and the residue of auto accidents can affect our bodies for years after one has supposedly recovered from the acute effects of the accident. Chronic emotional stress can also settle in the joints. In this article, David Quigley discusses HYPNOTIC MOVEMENT, a simple but dramatic technique that helps the joints recover their flexibility and strengthen the joints.
Hypnotic Movements are easy and pain-free to perform and take as little as 5 minutes a day. The concept of hypnotic movement is simple: the body has a deep inner knowledge of how it wants and needs to move in order to alleviate stress on the joint, increase healthy circulation, restore flexibility and relieve pain. These simple movements are easy and natural for anyone to experience. A simple example of this are the spontaneous and pleasurable stretches we instinctively perform upon waking up in the morning. Still being in the state between sleeping and waking, we are experiencing something similar to the relaxed trance induced under hypnosis.
This state of relaxation with increased body awareness is not the usual state of deep hypnotic trance that most hypnotists and their clients are familiar with, in which the body lies in peaceful repose, while a hypnotist leads you on a journey and offers hypnotic suggestions. This is a state of “alert trance”, just like that morning stretch, in which mild relaxation is combined with a profound awareness of our body and its feelings. This state is similar to the trance which athletes describe when they are running a marathon, or playing at their peak in a sports event. They call it being “in the zone”, a blissful state of stepping out of their daily worries and feeling merged with their body as it performs flawlessly in the sport. Sportsmen know this altered state quite well and seek it out in every competition and practice, even though few understand that it is a type of hypnosis.
While many of us have surrendered to our bodies’ natural hypnotic movements once in a while, few of us listen to our bodies’ needs for movement very often because we have as a culture been trained to override our bodies’ feelings and needs as children. How often were we as small children told to stop fidgeting (a movement little bodies should be doing lots of) when forced against our nature to sit still at a desk? Stop wiggling, sit still, no you can’t go to the bathroom, don’t make those noises. It is no wonder that most of us start regarding our bodies as a stupid object, a vehicle that at best carries us around, but then has all those aches and pains that we don’t understand. Then we are trained to believe that there is nothing we can do for our bodies’ pains except take it to a doctor who gives us drugs - in other words, we have lost the knowledge of our bodies’ healing powers.
The good news is that your body may have stopped making these healing movements years ago, but it still knows how to move in all those miraculous ways. All it needs is some help in awakening these latent inner powers through the aid of Hypnotic movement. We have achieved excellent results at the Institute in a wide variety of joint and movement related conditions including:
- Rheumatoid arthritis - I was crippled with the disease 29 years ago, and developed this technology to heal myself. I've been entirely symptom-free since 1984.
- Carpal tunnel syndrome - Clients experience immediate reduction in pain, stiffness and swelling and continuing improvement through daily practice.
- Osteoarthritis - The client's flexibility is restored, swelling reduced or eliminated and pain sometimes completely removed in knees, hips, lower back, and fingers. One client was able to restore her ability to play her favorite piano pieces in a single session, restoring her normal strength and flexibility in her fingers. Now she says every time her fingers begin to swell and hurt, she simply uses a simple massage and movement technique to restore complete freedom of movement in 5 minutes or less.
- Sciatica - Clients learn to rotate and realign hips on their own.
- Post-traumatic injury pain and stiffness - We have achieved remarkable results with long-term post-traumatic pain from automobile accidents and other injuries and especially good results with whiplash injuries.
- Chronic back pain - Backs respond quite well to hypnotic movement.
- Post surgical recovery - If chronic pain continues even after corrective surgery, hypnotic movement can be very important for a full recovery. See our article on Hypnosis and Surgery for more details.
"I had been diagnosed with osteoarthritis in my right thumb and wrist and the surgeon had closed the book on me because I declined surgery. I was experiencing pain: I could not wrap my hand around a steering wheel to drive, nor write longhand, at times I could not hold a toothbrush to brush my teeth. I scheduled an appointment with David Quigley. We worked together for a couple of hours releasing the toxins that had built up in my system, then wiggling and moving the damaged areas, freeing them up from their painful, frozen positions. Afterwards, my inner healer cradled the area with warmth and color. The best part of this work was that I took all the information from that session home with me. David actually taught me how to heal myself! It took one session and I have been the master of healing my own pain ever since. If I start to feel the slightest pain, I utilize the stretches, imagery and healing energy he gave me that day and I am happy to say I am thrilled with the results."
