Nobody wants to feel pain and yet without pain we probably would not have survived as long as we have. Pain can have a signal value, alerting us to the need to do something different - remove our hand from a hot stove, have a broken bone set so it can heal.

Some pain persists and causes suffering and we are asked to help. 

Pain has two components - the sensation itself and the associated suffering.

Hypnosis is wonderful as a way to help someone with their unwanted sensations both by allowing them to not be “hypnotised” by the pain [to focus on it and become absorbed in it] and also by helping someone to learn how to focus and become absorbed in a preferred experience such as walking in the bush or gardening. 

Hypnosis is also wonderful as a way of helping someone suffering from pain to be less frightened, less opposing, and more accepting and so reduce or even dissolve the suffering element.

Rob McNeilly