Change the Channel on Pain with Dr. Emmett Miller

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The mind and its images has a profound effect upon the experience of pain. A football player doesn’t feel his broken ribs until after the game. A frightened child feels much more pain from an injection.

You can learn to shift your awareness and diminish the pain signals reaching your brain. This program offers two thoroughly relaxing and soothing experiences teach you to use two different techniques to tune out pain and tune in relief.  

 For chronic or acute pain—"Change the Channel."

Purpose:
• To reduce, relieve or eliminate pain.
• To build self-esteem in chronic pain sufferers.
• To teach various techniques of pain control.

Recommended For:
Chronic and acute pain of all types, and to support medical treatment. Other programs deal with specialized pain relief (post surgery, headache, backache, etc.) 

Recommended Use:
One to three times daily, or as needed for pain control.It is important that anyone using this program has received professional medical assistance and that all appropriate medical attention has been given to the condition. 

Some pain medication may produce unpleasant side effects. This program may prove helpful in reducing or eliminating dependence on such drugs. Do not attempt withdrawal from prescribed medication without the supervision of your physician.

Description of Exercises:
Track 1: (Part A) – Releasing Pain:  Teaches you to focus awareness away from pain, and thereby decrease its intensity. This experience uses imagery and selective awareness to help you dissolve and make the sensations of pain disappear, while leaving you in a calm, deeply relaxed state. (30:12)

 Track 2: (Part B) – Focusing Relief:  With a background of harp and flute, this experience teaches the technique of creating numbness of “glove anesthesia” in your hand. Then it provides a method, “dissociation,” of transferring the numbness to an area of your body where you are feeling the pain. (28:50)

Note:  This recording is intended to support and not replace medical treatment. Many people find that they can reduce or eliminate pain medication after using this. Please do not reduce or discontinue any prescribed medication without consulting your physician.

Supplementary and Related Programs:

Rainbow Butterfly - A serenely relaxing guided meditation through the color spectrum and the inner healing patterns of your body and mind. A great way to “check out” while your body does its healing work. Helps awaken the butterfly within you.

Headache Relief - In this program you will find powerful mind-body approaches that prove helpful for most headaches.

Healing Journey - This program features a symphony created specifically for this recording, and was the first of Dr. Miller’s original creations from the 1970s. Pure relaxation and healing imagery.

Easing Into Sleep - Often, anxiety and worry can interfere with your sleep. Easing Into Sleep uses deep relaxation and meditative techniques to help you learn to release tension and be available to sleep.

Letting Go of Stress - Because accumulating stress is at the root of all anxiety, this program is useful for learning techniques to lower the overall level of stress in your life. A Dr. Miller Classic, Letting Go Of Stress is a perennial best seller.

Accepting Change, Moving On - Sometimes serious illnesses leave you with losses – loss of bodily organs or functions, for instance. In addition relationships change as well as how you spend your time. Each of these losses requires an inner adjustment. This program helps you through these changes through guided imagery and self-hypnotic mind-tools.

Writing Your Own Script - As you eliminate unnecessary stress and worry, you will find yourself much better able to make positive changes in your lifestyle, your behaviors, etc. This program helps you make wise changes , and to self-program your subconscious mind to support those changes through the use of Software For The Mind.

Successful Surgery and Recovery - Techniques in this program have been shown to speed up post surgery healing by up to 25%! Use before and after surgery to reduce swelling, pain, bleeding, infection, and the side effects of anesthesia. 

Contraindications and Precautions:
Although there are really no absolute contraindications for the use of this product, people who are severely psychotic or who do not want to at least try to follow the guidance offered will probably benefit little from listening. Listening is also not a substitute for needed medical care or psychiatric care for serious mental or emotional disturbance. In any undiagnosed potentially serious condition such as a head injury, again, there will not likely be any harm, but it would be wise to delay their use until an adequate diagnosis has been made. Although no such problems have been reported, people with seizures of any kind, or neurological or with severe neurorespiratory disease, should check with their primary care practitioner for suggestions regarding the use of this program. Likewise, if you are undergoing psychotherapy, share your use of these with your therapist, as he/she may want to integrate this use with your treatment. And, of course, if you are driving or using equipment that requires your full attention, do not close your eyes and do not listen to any program that you find causes you to become drowsy, distracted, or incapable of functioning safely. Programs designated as “Drivetime” should be used with these precautions in mind.