Are you always present in the midst of a painful experience?

Answer 1

Takes a very conscious person to do what you are asking. Staying in the present is staying in the NOW in situations or circumstances, most remain in the past and act out of it. So few can accomplish NOW-NESS.

I try to remain in the present, through breath and other means to maintain conscious objective observation and not fall into the muck of my past, or in other words my mechanical defects. What most don't seem to understand is that they react out of the past and they are often trapped in the past. There is a lot that can be said about this, a lot of concepts and that makes it way more complex then this.

Answer 2

While going through a painful experience, I have had the experience of disassociation.... feeling like I'm not really there. It's like walking in a fog.

On one occasion, many years ago, I had the experience of feeling like I was watching events unfold from outside of my own body. I felt like I was viewing the situation as an onlooker and not a participant. That's only happened once, but it was an unforgettable experience.

Answer 3

No. I am probably a "pollyanna" but usually try to find the positive in every situation. And I'm middle-aged, so over time and with every experience I've had, I sort of found that things are generally never as bad as the originally appear. Sort of a been there, done that attitude mixed with the notion "I can handle this easy."

Answer 4

Yes, you are always present. But, if it's an extremely painful experience self-coping mechanisms take over to protect us.

They can be alienating the emotion, distorting the facts, disassociating, and partial amnesia. I am sure there are others.

A painful experience is in addition relative to each individual. What one could handle, another might not.

Answer 5

Dealing with other peoples problems as a counselor can be very difficult, in which case I chose to meditate and go to a higher plane, similar to Annie D, almost an out of body experience. It is my way of refreshing myself, being able to function day to day, and be a positive influence to others around me. Life for us all has good days and bad; it is what our journey's are and how we exist. It is how we deal with it as to the outcome. I am better some days than others, but I work at it. I am continuing to take Life 101, have never flunked, but continue for the perfect grade!

Answer 6

Unfortunately yes, and I do not break down, when I am confronted with any experience, thank, God for that, I usually break down, when I am alone, or at Home. The most heartbreaking experience was when they murdered my Grandson, and I had to go to my Daughter's House, with my Husband to tell her about it, I had to be strong, and in control, to be able to help her with this, Painful experience, I am glad God made me strong to withstand anything that comes my Way, because I almost lost my Daughter, my Grandson,s Mom, too. She almost lost her mind, and we could not control her, that was the most Painful experience I had ,had in my entire Life.

Answer 7

Yes,because of an accident 24 years ago,I was left partially disabled.They same time is a great healer,well who ever said it was an idiot,or never experienced pain!

Answer 8

Yes...VERY present...sometimes intolerably present...but removing myself from the experience emotionally would only give me the illusion of having experienced it, which would keep me from having the ability to really process it and let it go.

Answer 9

Not necessarily at all. I am sometimes an astonishingly good pain blocker - of physical pain. I wish I could also block mental anguish so well.

Answer 10

Yes, the most painful experience of all...LIFE!