Exquisite pain....

[Muirghein]

I have found that it is not physical pain itself, but our mental response to pain, our relationship to it to be the problem. As others have mentioned meditation helps us have a greater tolerance for pain. To just acknowledge, accept, and surrender into it. I have struggled my entire life since I was 7 if not before that with severe depression and anxiety. I turned to buddhism because it offered a solution for my mental anguish and suffering. More recently when I began meditating daily my response to pain changed. I've been able to look at it with compassion, to just be sad when I am sad and in lows like this past few days, and to really be happy and enjoy the moment when I am happy (like the days preceding the sadness). The pain doesn't go away, but our mind is incredibly powerful.

Besides studies themselves are always flawed, often can't be replicated and no study not even on the opposing side is any guarantee of well anything.

Wim Hoff:

http://highexistence.com/the-wim-hof-method-revealed-how-to-consciously-control-your-immune-system/

Tim Cridland, also known as Zamora the Torture King

http://www.menshealth.com/guy-wisdom/zamora-the-torture-king

Then there are people who are able to experience pleasure from pain.

And then there are placebos which show that the mind often has more power than we think (but apparently within limits, a lot of people take it to extreme).

So maybe it is not pain itself, but our relationship to it that changes, meditation is just one form for how that relationship can change. I know it has been true for me.

These are just my thoughts in the morning. I will step away and sit now.

[Jishin]

Hi,

Remember that pain is information. It is your body saying something very important to you. "If you keep this up I am going to keep hurting you." So don't be a dip shit and ignore pain in the name of whatever. Listen to your body.

Gasho, Jishin, _/st\_

[Mp]

Hi,

Remember that pain is information. It is your body saying something very important to you. "If you keep this up I am going to keep hurting you." So don't be a dip shit and ignore pain in the name of whatever. Listen to your body.

Gasho, Jishin, _/st\_

Very good point.

Gassho
Shingen

s@today