with your mind. With understanding comes acceptance and with acceptance
comes the ability to ignore it.
It can get really fun when you start getting synostesia (sp?) type effects
and the pain 'tastes' like soap and 'feels' like sugar.
> One technique that I was taught during combat training was to exclusively
> focus on the pain such that the mind has to shut it out to survive.
>
> You can think of it as a self-hypnotic focus point. The pain is already
> there and it's probably somewhere between distracting to nearly
> overwhelming. The goal with the meditation is to force it to go over the
> edge into completely overwhelming. Let the pain expand to the fullness of
> your consciousness to the point where can eventually actually see and hear
> the pain in your mind. You want to have it expand to completely envelope
you
> so that you can't see or hear anything else. Eventually, the pain just
> disappears. Since this is significant pain you have, and since you're
> familiar with self-hypnosis already, you'll probably feel a familiar
floaty
> sensation afterwards.
>
> I don't know if it's just a focused way to force a release of endorphines
or
> something else, but I can say that it works. At least it did for me, and
I'm
> a VERY skeptical person.
>
> -Kevin
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 2:38 AM
> Subject: Re: testing again
>
>
> > Possibly. I'm big on perception and knowing/feeling what's going on,
> especially
> > with my own body. In most cases I still feel the pain and recognize that
> its
> > nasty, I just don't let it become the focus of what I'm doing.
> > One of these days I'm going to find a free second and read a few books
on
> pain
> > and pain control. My last book on the subject was at least 7 years ago.
> > Another thing to add to me list. :)
> >
> > > That's one of the more effective methods of cognitive forms of pain
> > > control. Redefinition, along with distraction work quite well.
Michael,
> > > wiht what you've said, and from other discussions I''ve had with you,
> I'd
> > > guess that you'd probably be very good at using full hypnotic
analgesia
> > > instructions to control pain.
> >
> >
>
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