“I had suffered back pain in my lower back since 1986 … 20 MINUTES LATER BACK PAIN WAS GONE, INCREDIBLE STUFF”
Graham CosierBack pain since 1986
Rapid Pain Elimination Therapy
How much of your life has pain already taken?
The mornings you dread. The plans you cancel. The things you used to do without a second thought. Pain has had a long enough say in your life. It's time to ask whether it still needs to.
Sometimes the smallest thing is the thing you miss most.
Living with pain
You begin to organise your whole life around it.
First you stop doing the difficult things. Then you stop doing the enjoyable things, because you know how much they'll cost you afterwards. And eventually you start saying no before anybody has even finished asking.
You've probably become very good at hiding it, too. Smiling through dinner. Saying you're tired. Inventing another reason you can't join in.
The holiday you almost booked.
The walk you turned down.
The nights spent trying to find one position that doesn't hurt.
The partner you miss holding without having to think about it.
There's a particular cruelty in being physically present for your own life and feeling as though you're watching parts of it through a window.
And after enough years you can forget how you lived before pain became the first consideration in every decision.
Sometimes the day begins with the pain before you've even stood up.
Before you can think about breakfast, getting dressed, or what you want to do, you are already negotiating with your body.
Understanding the message
Pain is a warning.
What if the alarm is wrong?
Imagine having a smoke alarm in your kitchen. It's supposed to sound when there's danger. That is precisely why you installed it.
Now imagine it goes off every time you make toast. You check the kitchen. There's no fire. Yet the alarm keeps shrieking. Before long you're frightened of using the kitchen at all.
Pain works as a message from a complicated nervous system. An injury, an illness or a period of threat may start the warning. Sometimes the system keeps producing a strong message after the original situation has changed. Sensitivity, expectation, memory and fear can all become part of it.
When that happens, working only with the place that hurts may leave the warning itself untouched.
The question becomes: what is the message protecting you from now, and does it still need to?
When the warning gets learned
Your body can learn to expect pain.
The message can begin to drive the very life it was supposed to protect. And after years of listening to it, the warning can feel like the only truth left.
The memory
You hurt yourself once. Your system remembers the movement and braces before you've even begun. The remembered danger can become part of today's experience.
The expectation
You know exactly which chair will hurt, which journey will be unbearable and how you'll feel tomorrow. Your nervous system can begin preparing for pain before anything has happened.
The shrinking world
You move less, sleep worse, worry more and give up the things that used to make you feel like yourself. The alarm is now shaping the whole day. That is precisely why it deserves to be questioned.
The pain is real. But the alarm sending it does not always need to keep sounding.
Rapid Pain Elimination Therapy
The message is where we begin.
RPET works with the warning itself. Through Mind Mediation, Martin explores why the response is still being sent and how it can be changed. The question is what life could look like when pain no longer has the final word.
The point of RPET
Imagine being able to say yes again.
RPET approaches persistent pain as a message that can be questioned. Martin's Mind Mediation method works with the responses beneath conscious effort, exploring what keeps the warning active and whether it can change.
What matters to the person in pain is what happens afterwards, when they get out of the chair and go back to their life.
Sleeping without rehearsing tomorrow's pain.
Bending down without preparing for the worst.
Getting through a working day without counting the minutes.
Walking further, going out more, making plans again.
Remembering what it feels like to trust your own body.
Sometimes the freedom you miss most is simply having an ordinary morning that belongs to you.
You've heard promises before. So instead of asking you to take my word for it, I'd rather you heard from the people who came to me with their pain.
Tassos Zachariou, speaking about his brother
His brother had already tried everything he knew.
The facial pain had lasted four years. CyberKnife treatment helped for a while. Surgery reduced its severity. Yet the pain remained. Tassos then joined his brother in a video session, translating as they worked. This is what he wrote afterwards.
From Tassos, in his own words
Posted by Tassos Zachariou after a Skype session with his brother, who had been living with multiple sclerosis and trigeminal neuralgia.
Dear Martin, I need to thank you for your help with my brother's trigeminal neuralgia problem. He suffers from MS for over twenty years now, and for the past four years he also has terrible facial pain. He was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia probably caused by his MS.
He has tried CyberKnife and it helped but only for a short while, then brain surgery (decompression) that helped reduce the severity of the pain.
But the pain was still there.
Last week we tried a session with yourself over Skype. I had to translate since my brother's English is limited.
After the end of the session, I am happy to say that he has not complained at all and has been very lively and talkative. I will keep you informed about his progress, but so far it looks really good. He really looks and feels well. It is the best I have seen him in ages! Thank you again Martin!
Experience in practice
Pain arrives with all sorts of names.
Over the years I've worked with people who had almost given up expecting change. Some came with a clear diagnosis. Others had spent a long time looking for an explanation. All of them had a life being interrupted by pain.
The problems people have brought to my work include:
Long-standing back and neck pain
Sciatica and shooting nerve pain
Migraines and recurrent headaches
Arthritis-related pain
Fibromyalgia pain
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
Phantom-limb pain
Old injuries, scars and lingering pain
Trigeminal neuralgia and facial pain
Persistent pain alongside MS, ME/CFS and other conditions
Persistent post-surgical pain
Pain that becomes worse with stress, fear or expectation
The diagnosis may explain where pain began. RPET asks what the system is doing with that pain message now.
In their own words
People who know what it feels like.
These are excerpts from accounts people actually wrote after working with Martin. Some came reluctantly. Some had tried treatment for years. The details that matter most are the ordinary things they could do afterwards.
“I have just worked with Martin and he eliminated my old back pain which I have had for 30 + years in about 15 minutes. I am more than happy and am looking forward to a life without that pain.”
Dominique ShipstoneMore than 30 years of back pain
“My whole life has changed after meeting with Martin Rothery … I had been in constant pain with my lower back for over 3yrs … but after ONE meeting with Martin my life is back to normal & living it to the full, my dog is so pleased we can walk miles now together”
Nick KnyhynyckyjWalking without a stick
“walked in with a painful back, walked out with no pain at all wonderful highly recommend”
Andrew ElsonA painful back
“Martin cured my pain that I have had for years from arthritis cannot praise him enough no pain. Would recommend Martin to anyone who has pain”
Coral PollendineLong-standing arthritis-related pain
“I'm able to bend my back with no pain at all for the first time in over 10 years. Thank you so much”
Tony SwindellsBending for the first time in years
“I have reoccurring back pain 10 minutes with Martin and it's gone. It's now Sunday morning and it's still great thank you Martin Rothery”
Stephen DalyRecurring back pain
“waking up without any pain … I only woke once whereas I've had 20-30 times awake with pain trying to turn over in bed over the last few weeks”
Denise McCabe Prev PearsonA full night of sleep
“woke up for the 1st time this morning without feeling like I've been hit by a train … yesterday after my treatment I could touch my toes again which I've not physically done in years!!”
Denise McCabe Prev PearsonReaching her toes again
“I was quite skeptical at first and didn’t know what to expect … After just one session I was back pain free, I still can't quite believe it! It has been a complete life changer.”
AnonymousA sceptical start
“Just met Martin for the first time today, he came to my home spent about 40mins here, it was a life changing experience … if you have pain & had it for a long time like i had, give him a call if you want an end to your pain”
Nick KnyhynyckyjA visit at home
“Since then I have slept better, not used my stick n have reduced intake of my pain relief. Feel even better then what I did prior to symptoms began”
Rita CrawfordFibromyalgia, a slipped disc and daily life
“For 8 years. Physiotherapy and hospital visits. Martin came to my home, 40 minutes later, no pain and a new found energy. I am not easily impressed so take my word: Martin gets straight to the point.”
David UndaKuva FrancisEight years of appointments
“thank you for today pain free with me knees just proves that this does work will defo do it again thank you”
Nicky HillierKnee pain
“I had a 20 minute session with Martin which significantly reduced my pain, which gradually came back, I had a second session which totally eliminated the pain leaving me astounded.”
AnonymousYears of heel pain
“I could for the first time in years move my neck without pain from side to side … I went into town … for the first time on my own in many years and it felt amazing”
Tracy Yellowcrayon HooleNeck movement and independence
“I watched as a woman was rendered pain free after being about a 8 on the 0 - 10 pain scale. I’m fascinated with this way of healing pain”
Alison RussellWhat she saw at an event
“Seen Martin tonight after work, he catered to my needs … At first I was a skeptic, safe to say am not now! I would highly recommend to anyone.”
AnonymousA sceptic after work
“Very impressed short treatment with Martin was limping before went in no limp or pain after treatment fab :)”
AnonymousA change seen in person
“I know this method works because I’ve had a pain elimination session with Martin and my 10 years of pain went.”
Manjit Kaur RupraiA client who went on to train
“Instantly Martin put me at ease and explained everything he was going to do, he went above and beyond for me and managed to eradicate a pain I suffer from daily as well, despite me going for something completely different.”
AnonymousDaily pain and an unexpected change
“The day I met him was the day my life started again, I struggled with pain & really bad fatigue which stopped me doing the things I loved & my family missed out on so much too, I'm now back to me, no medication now & next week increasing my hours at work.”
AnonymousPain, fatigue and being able to work again
You can read all the theory in the world. Somebody being able to sleep, walk the dog or bend down again is a rather different kind of answer.
See ways to beginYour next step
There are two ways to begin.
You can work through the recorded programme in your own time, or meet Martin privately over video and work directly with the pain you've been living with.
Both begin with the same question: what is keeping this message going?
Work with the recorded programme
£49
The complete recorded RPET pain programme to work through privately, at your own pace, and return to whenever you want.
Meet Martin privately
£149
A private live video session with Martin, focused on your particular pain and the message behind it. Your booking also includes the full £49 recorded pain programme to revisit afterwards.
Book your private session
If you notice no change during your session, your session fee is refunded.
For practitioners and curious newcomers
Learn to work with the message.
If you've spent your working life helping people with pain, you will recognise the frustration of doing everything you know and still watching somebody suffer.
RPET offers another way to approach the problem. The recorded training takes you through the reasoning and practical method, including Mind Mediation, so you can understand how Martin works with persistent pain.
Martin has previously trained more than a thousand people through his RPET courses. This standalone programme opens the subject to established practitioners and people coming to it for the first time.
£149
Enquire about trainingRecorded RPET training. Learn in your own time, return to the material, and explore a different approach to pain.
Prefer to learn live? Group and one-to-one Zoom training days are being explored. You can ask Martin about those options too.
“I have done many many training courses over the last 10 years and so many of them was a complete waste of time and money. Then I found RPET.”
“RPET can take the complete novice and turn them into an effective, confident and competent therapist.”
“Your skill and knowledge made the learning easy. Your definitely a force to be reckoned with in this arena.”
“Fantastic training with Martin today. Really enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to introducing this in my own hypnotherapy practice.”
“RPET works quickly and easily. I have more certainty that clients have gotten exactly what they needed and that my work is effective”
“Martin is a superb trainer and practitioner, not only did i learn a vast amount as a therapist but Martin helped me with a complicated issue from a client point of view which was far more effective for me than many medical approaches i tried in the past”
“The beauty of RPET is in it’s simplicity. It is well taught, with students able to choose whether they attend in person or join online. The support from the team and Martin’s generosity with his time are second to none.”
“A fascinating clear learning into making change happen, with a clear and sustainable approach by Martin Rothery and input from the team of experienced Therapists who share their knowledge, guidance and advice openly and freely to help others.”
“Amazing training easy and understandable has changed the way I work”
A few sensible questions
You may still have questions. Good.
You've likely been living with pain long enough to be wary of somebody telling you they have an answer. This is an invitation to explore something different, ask questions and choose the route that suits you.
If you want to begin, choose the recorded programme or a private session. You can go straight to the purchase page for either option.
How does an online session work?
You meet Martin live by video. You talk through your pain, what has happened around it and what you'd like to change. The work then centres on Mind Mediation and the responses involved in your particular experience.
Does a private session include the recorded programme?
Yes. When you book the £149 private video session, the £49 recorded RPET pain programme is included, so you can return to it in your own time.
Can I begin with the recorded programme?
Yes. The £49 audio programme lets you work through the material at your own pace. You can choose a private session if you'd rather work directly with Martin.
Is the training only for therapists?
No. Existing practitioners may recognise ways to bring it into their work, while curious newcomers can begin by learning how the approach is taught.
There is a life beyond planning everything around pain.
You remember it. The question is whether you're ready to explore finding more of it again.
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