Increasing muscle tone reduces stress to affected joints, which increases mobility and comfort. Low impact activities like swimming; walking and range of motion exercises are commonly recommended to clients with arthritis. With hypnosis it’s easier to integrate new regimes and to establish positive subconscious connections between healthy activity and improved mobility, comfort and freedom.

The more protection in your joints, more comfort and mobility you create. Since subconscious controls multitude of our bodily function, hypnosis can direct it to increase production of chondrocytes, which increases growth of healthy new cartilage. Pain is often biggest issue with arthritis. Some pain, however, is necessary; it acts as a warning system telling us that something isn’t right. The responsible approach with hypnosis is to only reduce unnecessary pain, leaving intact body’s ability to signal us and protect us from further complications.

Hypnosis can also be used to regulate flow and distribution of endorphins, which are ‘feel good’ chemicals body uses to create comfort and relaxation. Using hypnosis to regulate endorphin production plays a big role in putting client in control. Hypnosis can also alter perception of where pain is located. By redirecting sensitivity away from key areas such as hips, knees and vertebrae to a less critical part of anatomy like a finger tip, client has much more control.

The same approach can be used to attach a different quality to pain. A sharp pain can be perceived as dull; burning pain can be perceived as cool. Involving other senses is one of distinct advantages hypnosis offers in managing symptoms of arthritis. Another technique involves using one color to represent pain and another to represent comfort, and then blending two offering instant relief.

Lastly, by attaching a number value to pain creates option of change. By imagining a yardstick during hypnosis a client can pick number that best reflects their current level of pain, and then they are directed to different numbers which changes their perceived level of discomfort.

With hypnosis arthritis sufferers gain a distinct advantage in managing and even reversing limitations of arthritis. Hypnosis is simple, empowering and extremely effective. A few sessions with a hypnotherapist gets you started and with a little practice you begin to effect healthy positive changes in your life. We all have remarkable self-healing abilities and hypnosis is an excellent way to jumpstart a return to a healthier more active life.