Handle Excruciating Pain - wikiHow

Handle Excruciating Pain - wikiHow

How to Handle Excruciating Pain

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Handling pain is difficult and involves a lot of patience. With time, handling pain can get easier, but even the best pain-handlers need some way to get through excruciating pain that may be caused by illness or injury. Here's how you can better handle horrible pain.

Steps

1. Sit down, be quiet, sit up straight and clear your mind.
   
2. Take a few deep breaths.
   
3. Become focused by visualizing something that usually keeps you focused. It could be your favorite food, the feeling of a soft and fuzzy blanket or a place that quiets your soul. Anything that will keep your mind off the pain. Think about the feeling, the smell, the taste (if applicable) and the sounds of this object or place. Focus on what it looks like. Use all your senses to "innerly describe" your focus point, while distracting yourself from the pain.
   
4. Think about what you care about most. Something you would be willing to suffer excruciating pain and death for. Focus on that, imagine it, and Visualize it. Do this for about 10 minutes or until you feel you are ready.
   
5. Use your source of pain slowly. Start off lightly and recognize the sensation of pain. Now imagine yourself in a room. A special place where no one or nothing that you don't want can get in. Imagine that the thing or person you care about is in the room with you. Focus on that thing/person and recognize the pain, but don't give into it. Feel it like you were not in you own body. Put your mind and body in separate places.
   
6. Another way that works in conjunction with this is by channeling your energy. It sounds like hocus-pocus, but it is not. The technique I use is a combination of that of the kung fu traditions and that of the more modern JudoKai. All of this has greatly helped by being in a martial art. To begin, you should meditate. Visualize your body as a translucent 3D figure. You can visualize your energy. I use thousands of white dots to represent my energy or ki. Now visualize a strength. It isn't contained in your translucent figure but it flows through you. Now take your energy and focus it on the spot of your pain and force the strength to the same spot. Visualize as well as actually forcing the ki and strength to that spot. Imagine even another force that forms a protective bubble around that spot. Nothing can go through it.
   
7. Practice each of these techniques separately for several times until you feel you can use them together. These both are highly personal techniques and you should hone them constantly.
   

Tips

• This takes time. Go slowly. You should be completely comfortable with meditation before you use the pain.
  
• Find someone who can mentor you in meditation.
  
• Join a martial art.
  

Warnings

• If you enjoy the pain, stop immediately and get help. This could be an indication of a serious psychological condition.
  
• Make sure that your wound isn't anything too serious. If it is bleeding continuously go and see a doctor to prevent blood loss.
  
• Be near a phone in case something goes horribly wrong.
  
• Never purposely hurt yourself to try this technique.
  

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Sources and Citations

• http://www.judokaikanjujutsu.com/
  
• http://www.laugar-kungfu.com/Kung%20Fu%20Origin.htm
  
• http://www.learningmeditation.com/
  

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