Mind Matters is a registered practitioner for the world renown OldPain2Go® system.
Pain is your brain’s way of protecting you. It’s a powerful signal designed to alert you to injury or danger, prompting you to take action.
Typically, the intensity of pain reflects the severity of the issue. For example, if you break a bone, the pain is immediate and intense. But once the injury is stabilised, with a plaster cast, the pain lessens (even after the medications have worn off). That’s because your brain recognises the problem is being addressed, and the signal can reduce.
As the body heals, there’s no longer a need for that ongoing alarm. The pain is supposed to switch off.
But sometimes, it doesn’t.
Even after full physical recovery and medical clearance, pain can linger. This is common in cases of chronic pain (pain that has lasted for 3 months or more). The brain’s alarm system gets stuck in “on” mode—continuing to send signals long after the injury has healed. This has even occurred with limb loss or phantom limb pain.
Why the Pain Continues
Sometimes, the subconscious mind holds onto pain as a protection mechanism—to prevent re-injury, to keep you cautious, or because emotional trauma hasn’t been resolved. Physical, mental, and emotional pain are deeply intertwined, and one can trigger or intensify the other. Sometimes the mind hangs onto the pain because you need to change your habits that caused the pain in the first place.
Other times there may be a secondary gain such as not having to go back to work by claiming financial benefits. The list goes on.
How Hypnosis Supports Chronic Pain
Through the Old Pain To Go system, we engage the ‘brain bargaining’ technique to reduce or alleviate the severity of the pain message.
This system works by accessing the subconscious mind—the part responsible for automatic responses, emotional memories, and the pain messaging system.
In a safe, relaxed state, hypnosis can:
- Reduce or “turn down” the intensity of pain to a manageable level
- Reassure the mind that healing has occurred and the threat is gone
- Resolve emotional or psychological patterns connected to the pain
- Keep pain responses functional—so if a new injury occurs in the same area, the mind still knows when to alert you appropriately
Hypnosis doesn’t block pain completely—it simply helps your brain recalibrate, so it’s no longer reacting to old injuries or outdated threats. This allows your mind and body to work together, rather than against each other.
If pain has lingered longer than it should have, and nothing seems to explain why—it may be time to listen to what your subconscious is holding onto. Hypnosis can help you release it. You’ve done the physical healing. Now it’s time for the mind to catch up.
The discomfort will either disappear or be turned down to a manageable level to remind you why it was there in the first place-for your safety.
Talk to us today about how hypnosis supports chronic pain.
