A similar remarkable improvement occurred with Mary,50, a hotel cook who for years had been trying to convince doctors that there was a physical cause for her severe lower back pain and sciatica in her left leg.
She was told under hypnosis to:
‘Imagine that you are lying on warm sand on a beach and that a layer of sand is gently being blown over your leg. This sand has special properties and, as your leg absorbs the sand’s warmth, the pain in your leg is draining into the sand so that, when you return to a normal waking state, your pain will be gone.’
Mary was able to use this technique even standing in crowded buses to get to work and home again. She was eventually able to cease taking the high dosages of anti-depressants prescribed by previous practitioners.
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