In its more severe forms, migraine must surely be one of the most devitalising and debilitating complaints a person can experience. It is responsible for thousands of lost hours in the workplace every year and costs the nation dearly through medical treatment and a constantly expanding range of prescription medications. Accurate statistics are impossible to obtain on the real incidence of this complaint because thousands of sufferers simply put up with the condition and never seek professional help. In Queensland alone, an average of sixteen hundred people were admitted to acute care hospitals each year, for the primary treatment of migraine, between 1995 and 1999 (HIC 2000). Because so many cases are never officially recorded, these figures only represent the tip of the iceberg.

Migraine is an insidious problem that appears to be caused by a hundred different things, depending on the point of view of the observer. It has only been seriously investigated from a physical standpoint and therefore the causes are considered physical, and the required treatment likewise.

To successfully alleviate migraine, we have to look beyond the physical causes and treatments. There is little doubt that the things commonly blamed for ‘causing’ migraine – chocolate, wine, over-tiredness, noise, bright lights, late nights, oranges, caffeine and many others, are merely agents the individual is particularly sensitive to, and trigger migraine in that person. Such sensitivity is usually in the form of an allergic reaction, but why should it trigger migraine specifically? There is a wealth of
information available on the symptoms and the effects the condition has on our physiology, along with the many different forms of the condition. There is not one real answer in all of it.

The answers seem to be a secret of the subconscious, because it appears that only the subconscious can alleviate the condition permanently. The drugs and other approaches, so often just don’t cut it.

Thankfully, it is a condition that is usually helped quickly and easily with the appropriate subconscious-mind therapy. Like many other problems, when we help the person change the underlying, subconscious causes, the symptoms take care of themselves. When the person has successfully eliminated the subconscious tensions, they often find they can drink wine or stay up late etc, and no longer suffer their headaches. Many clients have found this to be the case.

There are still countless mysteries surrounding migraine, but for most sufferers it is something that can be eliminated, with a little subconscious level help.