is there a good website or does anyone have any tips for being able to mentally block out pain
2007-12-05 18:20:20 · 5 answers · asked by ИΦĬςΩҐҐļº² 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Pain & Pain Management
i know the needles deal; thats what sparked pain tolerance in me. I sat down one day and put my mind somewhere else while i poked myself with a needle, wasn't too bad and to my surprise when i looked down i had actually been bleeding.
2007-12-05 18:28:31 · update #1
Interesting question? I have Rheumatoid Arthritis for over 30 years and have removed the word pain from my vocabulary. I can write it but refuse to speak it. If it does not have a name, label, you cannot acknowledge it, let alone feel it. Pain is a perception, the brain being a organ like the heart lungs, kidneys, but the only organ that does not feel pain. That is why they can do brain surgery with the Patient wide awake and stimulate the brain. However be warned, when I visit the Hospital the first question is usually are you in pain? Next question is describe your pain. I have severe problems in acknowledging pain let alone describing it. This time of the year I like to take all my pain, place it in a big cardboard box, wrap some nice fancy Christmas paper around it, tie it off with a big red ribbon and leave it on the door step. I hope that some person will steal the box, thereby taking away my daily pain. In truth as you cannot box pain for it to be stolen, I have accepted pain, as being my best friend. Sometimes I am glad I feel pain, because at times, when I am under the influence of medication, I do not feel alive, its as if the world is moving and I am not. Therefore pain means I am alive. Their are many tricks one can use to deal with chronic pain, however you have to be in chronic pain, that means 24/7 before you really learn how to deal with it. Good Luck
2007-12-06 12:29:44 · answer #1 · answered by gillianprowe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Resisting what I can not change such as the weather or pain simply increases the sense of suffering. If I create no reaction to it then I wont experence the effects of my reaction; which is what unnecessary suffering is. Try adjusting to its experience by not naming it as pain but with reasoning look at it as an experience of your nervous system sending signals; like that.
Self denial controls and rises above the experience of natural reactions to pain.
Contemplate Jesus hanging on the cross 3 hours without resisting it because of turning the pain into a sacrifice of love for all, for everyone ever in humanity.
2007-12-05 19:57:05 · answer #2 · answered by Mikelley 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Practice.
A friend of mine had a fear of needles, and he was about a year from going to the MEPS to join the Navy, where he had many needles in his future.
So, he carried a safety pin with him, and he'd prick himself with it when he didn't have anything better to do. Later he told me the injections and blood samples didn't have much of an effect on him, and he thinks that messing around with the safety pin really helped.
Of course, ya gotta be careful, be clean, and I'm not really advising that you do anything to break the skin... and I've never tried it myself.
2007-12-05 18:25:40 · answer #3 · answered by Spacer C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blocking out pain is a mindset where you are confident in your own strength to overcome it, to not let it bother you.
2007-12-05 18:31:42 · answer #4 · answered by Dave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meditation works wonders. You can buy guided meditations that are easy to use and effective.
2007-12-05 18:24:51 · answer #5 · answered by goddess4peace 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋