Q&A

If you take a pain-killer, then you can graft your autosuggestion on it in a visualisation by for example imagining it as little bullets that go towards the pain and dissolve this. This is just an example. There are many possibilities. If you take a pain-killer with the positive expectation that it helps you well, then that expectation itself is already an effective autosuggestion. You can consider the pain-killer as a message, as an indicator of a direction, namely towards a state of reduced pain. Since a pain-killer nevertheless also really has a biochemically analgesic effect, it is a good indicator of the direction. In other words, the subconscious gets a first little push and then does the rest of the work. It’s best to look at it this way. The pain-killer is ‘only’ the self-starter. The real engine towards healing (here: pain relief) is your own mental strength.

Of course autosuggestion is effective beside a pain-killer. Especially with chronic pain, where the mental aspects of the pain are always very pronounced. If you already take pain-killers for a long time, I advise that you start with combining these with the use of autosuggestion. If you feel that you can even slightly influence the pain by own strength, you can slowly reduce the amount of pain-killers. Of course it makes no sense to let this go together with periods of heightened pain. Since the chronic use of pain-killers ALWAYS has side effects, autosuggestion is nevertheless a very valuable alternative. It’s already significant if you can reduce the amount of your medication through this. If you can abolish them, so much the better, but that has to be seen for each individual case.