Posted on 11/28/2014 7:07:17 AM PST by shove_it
It’s possible to trick yourself into reinterpreting pain. I’ve done it myself with simple visual exercises combined with breathing and relaxation techniques. It worked well enough for me to be able to sleep despite severe lower back pain. It’s simple enough, just visualize the area in pain as a glowing red mass and then visualize moving it out of your body. Worked best for me “sending” it down my left leg and out the end of my toes. Strange how you can trick yourself, after a while I could feel it leaving my toes, it sort of tickled or tingled. Was it long term pain relief? No, it was temporary.
Seriously, with all of the zombie scenarios that will come from this, I hope that scientists will use this to help chronic pain sufferers and ease the abuse of pain meds by people.
hope this works
As a person with Fibromyalgia, this is exciting news. I thought Lyrica was a lifesaver.
BTTT!!
Agreed.
I've found the trick is to observe the pain objectively, sort of "study" it. Then you can deal with it, even ignore it.
It's a sort of meta-view in which you observe the pain rather than experience it. I'll bet the Zen folks have something to say about that.
Yeah, there are those of us who were taught by their parents to ignore what their bodies were interpreting and continue to work until now we can no longer function. Pain is a messenger we all need to listen to, however there are those that have no fix available that this will benefit.
Pain.
At certain levels pain just becomes the norm and life goes on. At extreme levels as in disc sitting on a nerve the pain is totally debilitating and prescription level opioids do not really touch it much but they do shut down your excretory functions to complicate things. Turning that pain off until the pain level reaches a tolerable level would be an awesome advance in the medical field.
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I've found the trick is to observe the pain objectively, sort of "study" it. Then you can deal with it, even ignore it.
It's a sort of meta-view in which you observe the pain rather than experience it. I'll bet the Zen folks have something to say about that.
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I've tried both of your techniques and found great success.
Biofeedback techniques work well for me, too.
Good, and bad. Pain can be a warning that may be life saving.
A former Marine acquaintance of mine recently wore a T shirt with the USMC logo and the statement that “Pain is weakness leaving the body”.
I thought that too. The really on true application should be toward something like a terminal cancer patient.
I don’t think that’s what this new therapy is for. The article said this treatment was aimed at pain caused by nerve degeneration, such as in diabetes and certain bone cancers where the nerves are damaged. I don’t think it is for other causes such as most cancers or trauma. Still, my mom has diabetic nerve pain in her feet that doesn’t respond well to analgesics, so this might be good for her.
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