If you're living with pain day in and day out, you know how much it can take over. It's like it's running the show, deciding what you can and can't do. But did you know that pain can often be related to the complex way your brain interprets pain signals.

Think of the nervous system as having “gates” in the spinal cord that decide whether these pain signals can reach the brain.  Open Gates: Stress, anxiety, and negative emotions can open the gates, allowing more pain signals to get through, making you feel worse.  Closed Gates: Relaxation, positive thoughts, and distraction can help close the gates, reducing the pain signals that reach the brain.

Things like stress, worry, and feeling down can swing that gate wide open. But when you're relaxed, thinking positive thoughts, and feeling in control, you can help close that gate.

Hypnotherapy helps you shift how your mind and body process pain, so relief becomes possible, even if nothing else has worked. Pain changes the brain, but the brain can change too.