WebMD talks about the benefits of using meditation, relaxation, or hypnosis to help treat chronic pain.

Hypnotherapy -- or hypnosis -- is a type of nonstandard or "complementary and alternative medicine" treatment. It uses guided relaxation, intense concentration, and focused attention to achieve a ...

The effects of hypnosis on reducing preoperative anxiety are well documented. But hypnosis can also reduce pain during and after surgery.

A simple, meditational relaxation technique (MT) that elicits the changes of decreased sympathetic nervous system activity was compared to a self-hypnosis technique (HT) in which relaxation, with or ...

Roughly half the students answered the questions under hypnosis, while the other half performed a muscle relaxation exercise before the questions.