What is used to manage pain at this level?
Tim Cridland – the man who can block out pain through sheer power of his mind. What type of hypnosis, and other techniques are involved with this? He claims that all of his nerves are normal, as any human, but through the power of meditation, self hypnosis, and other techniques, he’s able to take any level of pain down to about nothing. Watch and share your opinion, please. I’m curious about these methods.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2fAjpyfQ84&feature=related
well pain is like fear, it’s the bodies way of telling the mind to get the funk outta there because death might be approaching. It means something is wrong. So if you have the willpower and strength of mind to overpower that sense, just like some people can overcome fear, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be possible. Think of a time when you were really scared and you were able to talk yourself down. I do it when I’m cold, (I have very low blood pressure, so I get cold easily) I just focus on my inner warmth and calmly tell myself over and over, yes it is cold. accept the cold. It’s not going away, and I’m not going to freeze to death right now, so there is no need to even think about the cold. It doesn’t matter. And eventually, even though I still can feel it, I don’t care. Maybe it’s like that?
i once saw a documentary about shaolin monks and they said they hit themselves until their nerves are "dead". like holding a guy like a log and push him to wall with his head. or kicking alot and hard in the testicles.
stuff like that.
It works for some. Hypnosis is merely a heightened state of suggestibility, in which you are better able to communicate with your subconscious mind. 85% of people are suggestible to some degree; 15% – 20% highly so, and 15% – 20% aren’t much at all, so you could either preferably seek professional hypnotherapy, or, if not an option, hypnosisdownloads.com has several about pain.
When it comes to chronic pain, there are two options. One: medication. But you run the very probably risk of becoming addicted to your medication.
Two: pain management. In this instance you learn how to do things to distract yourself from the pain instead of dosing up on medication. It could mean meditation, it could mean exercise, it could be reading a book — something that gives you something else to focus on beside the pain.
I’d say the most beneficial is pain management. Any client I ever dealt with who had chronic pain and used medication for it invariably ended up addicted to medication, would have to go through detoxification, and then begin their medications all over again.
With pain management, yes, you will still feel pain. But you’ll learn ways to distract or disassociate yourself from it to the point where the pain is manageable (thus the name pain management).