The first step in creative imagery is to enter deep relaxation (Technique # 14). Although not essential, you can deepen this relaxation by adding biofeedback (Technique #15).
You should now be tying down, deeply relaxed Begin by getting in touch with your headache pain and experiencing it. Exactly where is it? What are its dimensions? Is it constant or pulsating? Can you give it a shape, color, smell or taste?
Then continue with one or more of these frequently-used imagery techniques.
• Switch Off the Pain. Visualize the nerve fiber leading from the painful area in your head to the pain gate in your brain and on to the pain receptors. Just before the fiber enters the pain gate, visualize a large switch operated by an equally large lever. As you experience the headache pain, see yourself pulling down the lever. With a loud clang, you turn off the switch. In many cases, the pain suddenly ends.
As this is a brief visualization, repeat it several times. Eventually, the ANS will turn off the pain gate switch just as you visualized.
• Displace the Pain. Focus your awareness on the painful area and briefly experience the pain. Then transfer your awareness, together with the pain, to any other area of your body such as your left foot or right hand. You should feel the pain in this new location, often quite intensely. Meanwhile, the headache area becomes increasingly pain-free.
Repeat several times until almost all of the pain is in the new location. Finally, visualize the pain leaving the new location by flowing out into the air. By this time, the original headache site should be virtually pain-free.
A variation on this is to imagine the headache pain diffused and spread out equally all over the body.
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