• visual,

• auditory

• kinesthetic

Use the one or the combination that best fits your client. Create your own tonal shifts where you think they will be most helpful to highlight the embedded commands.

We teach pain management for nurses at our hypnosis workshops in New York at Beth Israel Hospital, and at our hypnosis trainings.

Here is the free hypnosis script:

There are many ways to feel even more comfortable, more relaxed and free of any discomfort. I will give you a lot of different ways to feel better, to change and make more comfortable the places in your body that had pain.

The latest research has proven that the mind can stop the pain signals from getting to the brain. It's easy for anyone to do. I have helped many people, like you, feel better, and learn to have comfort where they used to have a problem.

One way to easily change sensations is to imagine the area you choose to make feel better as a red spot. Now take a deep comforting breath in and imagine cool, almost icy, air going right to that spot and cooling it down, so it changes color, a lighter shade, like pink.

With each breath in, you cool it down some more, changing it to a paler shade of pink, then cooler, to blue, while exhaling any discomfort right out of your body. That is one way that you can feel more comfort.

Some people like to imagine seeing themselves in a mirror, getting more and more comfortable, as they notice when they look at themselves they can feel free of the discomfort they used to have. Can you see or imagine yourself, over there, in that mirror, looking and feeling better than you have in a long time.

I have helped a lot of people, like you, to change the pain they used to have into a sound. No matter how loud or distracting the sound, they could always turn the volume down. Some turned it down to a low noise that didn't bother them anymore, while many found it more comforting to just turn the sound off completely.

I don't know what way will work better for you, that is up to you.

Sometimes you might find it easier to take your mind to an amazing place. A place of comfort, like a vacation, somewhere where you can go, to get away and really relax. Maybe it's somewhere you have been, somewhere full of happy, pleasant feelings, soothing sounds, fresh scents, that bring you back, to a time, a place, where you felt so good, so free, no worries, no stress, just relaxation and comfort. Maybe you can go somewhere you have never been, imagining how good you can feel, how wonderful it is to be free, to feel totally relaxed in this new place, of comfort. I don't know where your mind can take you, but I know there has been a time when you felt really good.

Your body can remember how it felt to feel really good, and you might have noticed that when the body remembers a really good feeling, that you can know where in your body that good feeling starts. Some people think it feels wonderful to move that good feeling in little circles, make it spin, and as it spins that good feeling throughout the body, your mind can begin to enjoy moving that spin faster, swirling it around. And as your body begins to remember every good sensation it has ever experienced, every sense of comfort, relaxation, that the body has ever felt, that spin becomes bigger and begins to swirl to those places that need it most. Just good feelings, smoothing over, comforting wherever it moves, because you know how to feel good. Sometimes the mind may forget, but the body knows what comfort feels like.

Sometimes, you might feel even better, adding some laughter into that spin. I don't know when the last time you laughed, I mean really laughed, was, but I know that the mind can think of the time, a time you just had to laugh out loud. I don't know what you find funny, maybe a time when you just knew, no matter what you did, you had to let it out, couldn't help but laugh. Maybe it was at a movie, with a friend or maybe it was even inappropriate laughter. You know what that is, don't you? Inappropriate laughter, where you just couldn't control that laugh, that time, when it came out of nowhere and you had to just try to hold it back, but, the laughter came anyway, yes, that kind of laughter, that we all know on some level. They say that laughter heals, and you can feel how that's true, now, take that feeling, that giggly kind of feeling, and throw that into the spin.

The spin that is swirling good feelings through your body, that's right, it's funny, when you think of it, when you realize how powerful you are and how easy you can change sensations in your body, with your mind, now. I know you can feel this good, whenever you need to, it's easy.

All you have to do, to feel this relaxation, is count, nice and slow, in your mind, from ten down to one, like this; ten, allowing my body to relax, nine, getting even more relaxed, eight, deeper relaxed with each number, seven, every muscle feeling better, six, more and more relaxed, five, so nice, so comfortable, four, deeper and deeper relaxed, three, feeling good, two, feeling better, and one. It doesn't matter what you say to yourself as you count, just that you know you will feel more and more relaxed with each and every count, every breath will bring more and more comfort…

We teach pain management techniques on our hypnosis training in New York.