The Art of Mastering Pain

By MysticDream

Welcome to yet another avenue of mind discipline-The Art of Mastering Pain. This art
may not be new, I presumed, since the ancients were known to have practiced a repertoire
of advanced mind dynamics so I’ll have to put this in the proper place of being a
rediscovery.
Before going into the exercises it is imperative that you’ll have to restructure your
knowledge and beliefs about Pain. A lot of information about it is highly accessible
nowadays so I leave to you all the research you can do in this subject matter, after all,
knowledge is power and, in fact, this understanding will greatly help you with the
exercises. As a supplement of what you might be learning is the fact that it is possible,
through the mastery of the technique, to zap pain by sheer will power; transcending
whatever medicine can accomplish (blocking the pain chemicals) by speeding up cure.
The technique seems to provoke the brain pharmacology into high gear.

I would like to see in the near future evolved humans not only mastering the art but
introduce refinements up to a level of curing even the toughest of maladies. The theory is
if we can induce the body’s healing powers to work against pain by force of will and
visualizations then somewhere down the line would be a higher technique designed to
ward off any kind of disease.

The water technique.

The pain technique did not come out of nowhere but through a childhood experience.
That was when I was learning how to swim on my own. I got a lot of embarrassing
moments until I realized the rigidity of my body due to some kind of fear and there was
no way I could reason out with the element so I tried a subjective approach and begun to
relax; closed my eyes and felt the water; merging with it; One with it; feeling my body
mimic its fluidity until I felt a surging kind of peace and trust. These served to bring the
vibrations of the self in affinity with the element, and then, voila! Success! A similar
technique can be employed to control the other three elements.

Now, to the pain technique.

My teenage years were marred by my 3-year bouts with sinusitis. The pain was
enslaving; dehumanizing, so intense it seemed to split my head in two. However, during
the course of time, I eventually developed a technique based from the water technique. It
took less time to master since the painful attacks could last between three to four hours
three times a day. In the course of my mystical exercises I shunned all kinds of
medications. In a little while, as I’ve gained mastery, I bade farewell to a fearful monster
humiliated down to a slave.
We have the tendency of wincing and contorting our bodies as a physical response of
putting up a buffer against pain. This undermines the healing process as we tend to react
not only to pain alone but also to the fear of pain besides subjecting the body to
unnecessary tension. Fear is a psychological input that we need to get rid of as it has a
way of distorting the way we perceive a given stimuli. We cannot repudiate the fact that
pain has an evolutionary importance and that evolution has come this far via a well-equip
sensorium employing the services of bradykinins and prostaglandins but when pain has
outdone its purpose we need to make it stop and end the misery.
The technique is to discard fear and focus the mind on the pain (this is the hardest part),
breathing in a steady relaxed manner. To tame it is to absorb it in all its magnitude (I’m
sorry this hurts). Experience the apex of the pain curve (at this point you are becoming
the pain itself in the sense that you are conscious of nothing else but pain), savor the pride
of withstanding the onslaught for a moment with the knowledge that it has nothing more
to muster and drive it back down slowly by feeling the intensity diminishing by
increments at a time until its gone, voila! Relief! Some sort of arbitrary visualization
construct can add potency to this technique. My favorite is visualizing a glowing herbal
whip energized during inhalation feeling the impact as it slash against the affected area
while grayish spheres of pain giving off gibberish cries as they exit in frenzied manner
through my nostrils during exhalations.

The next time you had a headache put away the analgesics and try this technique, you’ll
enjoy it.

Should we break the habit of the unnerving cycle of “pain-pill-relief”? Is the “Pill Age” a
counter development in human evolution?