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While in an altered state see an imaginary strand of nerves connecting the painful area of your body to the dial. Experiment with regulating the intensity of the pain. Increase it by turning the knob under the dial in one direction; decrease it by turning the knob in the opposite direction. As the needle registers a higher intensity of pain, feel the pain increase and hear the sound become louder. Then turn the knob in the opposite direction to reduce the pain and volume of sound as much as possible. Bring yourself back from the altered state to “normal.” The pain should be entirely eliminated or reduced to a tolerable level.

If you have various kinds of pain in different parts of your body, you can create a console of dials, with each dial representing a specific pain. If you have more than one kind of pain, you can manipulate the appropriate dial for each pain.

Healing

During the last eight to ten years there have been many books written for laymen that focus on the mind-body relationship, especially as it relates to illness and healing. You might find some of them of particular interest: Anatomy of an Illness by Norman Cousins; Getting Well Again by Carl Simonton, a cancer specialist, and his associates; Love, Medicine & Miracles by Bernie Siegel, a surgeon; and Minding the Body, Mending the Mind by Joan Borysenko, director of the Mind/Body Clinic at Harvard Medical School. A more technical book that explains the theory behind mental healing is The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing by Ernest Rossi, a protégé of Dr. Milton Erickson.

Norman Cousins clearly demonstrates the power of his natural healing resources. With his doctor’s medical expertise and encouragement and through humorous movies, books, and cartoons, he overcame his depression and disease. Laughter, and the positive emotional state which it evoked, proved to be an important part of his cure.

Bernie Siegel and Carl Simonton have demonstrated the power of the mind as an adjunct to medical treatment for cancer patients. Joan Borysenko describes an extensive preventative medicine program of mental/emotional techniques to supplement medical treatment at Harvard.

According to respected scientists we are able to heal ourselves by using mental processes. Simply stated, they believe that our thoughts and emotions affect body chemistry, especially hormones and neuropeptides. These chemicals affect our immune response to disease.

The essential elements of mental healing are a belief in your own power to heal yourself and your ability to accurately visualize the physiological healing processes that help the body repair itself with or without the use of medicine and surgery.

Here are some examples of how several of my clients hastened their healing with metaskills techniques.

Torn Ankle Ligaments

Cynthia, a young figure skater who had orthopedic surgery for a serious foot injury, enhanced her recovery by her own unusual visualization process. She “saw” boatloads of little men in white hospital gowns traveling through her bloodstream to the site of the injury. They unloaded special ligament-stretching paraphernalia, sewing machines, and chemical nutriments. They then stretched the ligaments, sewed them securely to the bones in her foot, and sprinkled medicine on top of the ligaments.

She visualized another crew of garbagemen who cleaned up the waste left by her interior tailors and by the body’s natural healing; they loaded the waste onto scows, which were dispersed through her blood vessels to her liver, kidneys, intestines, and lungs for eventual disposal outside of her body.

Cynthia held her own matinee movies every day during recovery. When she left the hospital her doctor told her that she had recovered from the surgery in an amazingly short period of time.

Hay Fever

Another athlete created an internal movie to eliminate sneezing during the hay-fever season. He imagines a team of men in white coats swabbing his sinus cavities with mops. Another team of men follows the first