Visualize Comfort: Pain Management and the Unconscious Mind

by Kristin Prevallet

Now in its second edition with a revised preface, this is the third book in Kristin Prevallet’s Creative Rewiring Series. In it she combines the techniques and resources from hypnosis, NLP, and energy psychology to understand how pain works in your body—and with the careful language of a poet, she teaches you how to manage it. You’ll discover how you can reduce inflammation and boost your immune system by neutralizing stress and feelings of fear, and by doing this, you’ll learn how to re-wire your nervous system's innate ability to boost your body's self-healing mechanisms. You’ll be amazed to read about how language, emotions, and thoughts influence your nervous system but most importantly, you’ll unlock your unconscious mind's creative potential to help you heal. Kristin Prevallet is a poet, certified hypnotherapist, and educator -- she is not a doctor. Her perspectives on pain management come from her personal incorporation of these techniques to deal with chronic pain, as well as four years of working with clients in her hypnosis practice. Nothing in this book should be interpreted as medical advice. From the The roots that ground my commitment to pain management come from personal experience. When I was 13 my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and although she went into and out of remission for the next five years, she ultimately ended up losing the battle. The cancer metastasized to her liver and to her bones, and she ended her life in a pain so excruciating that constant drips of both Dilaudid and Morphine didn’t ease her suffering. I was 18 and by her side the moment she died—I saw her take those slow breaths into a welcome stillness. With my mother’s health in crisis all though my high school years, I wasn’t much of a student but I knew one thing for I was going to be a doctor so that I could help people like my mother to survive. In college I quickly learned that I was more comfortable in the textual analysis of literature and philosophy than I was with Biology and Zoology classes. So much for being a doctor. For 20 years I occupied myself as a poet. I wrote books and taught writing workshops in a variety of universities. Although I’m still committed to the art, in 2009 I made the switch to working therapeutically with individual people. I found my way into the complementary health care practice of hypnotherapy and as I pursued my studies in this field, I was consistently surprised by how the patterns of thought and uses of language in hypnosis were similar to the patterns of thought and uses of language that I developed in my writing and poetry teachings. But even more significantly, I found myself coming full circle back to my early experiences of witnessing my mother’s suffering and wanting to pursue a career in health care. I’m not destined to ever be a doctor but through poetry I came to understand language’s potential to help people develop their capacity for inner knowing. It is my hope that passing on this knowledge might help you deal with your pain in a renewed, self-empowering way.

106 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 8, 2014

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

The premise of this book is actually really cool - the author's mother died a painful death from cancer and she wished there was a way she could help her control her pain. This is a series of meditative type tricks where you can get some temporary pain relief.

Why 5 stars? Well I recently took a trip via airplane, and of course being crammed in that seat next to a very large person caused my sciatica to flare up. Near tears, I picked up my kindle to try to distract myself. I had downloaded this book (for FREE, go get it NOW if you suffer from chronic pain) and decided to give it a shot.

Not all of the exercises worked for me, but one of them really, really did... picturing how your pain looked in your body, as a mental object (a drain, in my mind) and then mentally reversing the direction of it... IT WORKED. I was able to calm down enough that I could get through the rest of the plane ride. I've been using this technique since. What a gift!

Thank you Ms. Prevallet, for sharing some wisdom that really helps people with pain issues!