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From: Blue Chip
Date: Fri Apr 18, 2003 5:40pm
Subject: Fwd: Re: Pain Control
Yes, replying to my own mails again!
Well I wrote this, and the group is gone. So if "amnesia" reads _this_
group, here's my reply dude!
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>>Hey there. Ive just got a little question about pain control. I might
>>be goin slightly off the tracks here but is going into a trance
>>sumfin to do with the right brain?
>
>I like the metaphor that a trance is a state of introversion; a state of
>sychronicity between the left and right hemispheres.
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>>I was reading this book "how to draw with the right side of the
>>brain" And the idea to be able to draw what you see well is to break
>>away from the logic of the left brain. And with people saying in
>>reply to the question that you should think of the pain and break
>>away from it and actually think of it, then its like breaking away
>>from the left brain logic of "ow, this should hurt".
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>Yes, cool metaphor :)
>Yes, if you realise that the pain has *served* its purpose you are in the
>state whereby the pain exists only in past tense. So long as you stay
>aware of the problem, the pain has no use!
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>>Has anyone seen Simpsons? (trust me its related lol) where Bart
>>couldnt get into deep thought, so he was asked the question "if a
>>tree fell and no one was around to hear it, would it make a sound?"
>>and he couldnt answer it with logic so he was like oOooo n went into
>>deep thought lol. Anywho i agree with what people are saying about
>>thinking of the pain, and asking yourself "why does this hurt?" and
>>try to get the bottom of it, the core. I've been trying it and it
>>does help to distract your brain from the logic "this should hurt".
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>Think about your left foot; Decide how it feels right NOW; Relaxed? Tense?
>Sweaty? Achy? etc.
>While you were doing that, I think it's safe to presume that you had a
>right hand. Ignore how your hand feels now, and tell me how it felt
>during the time that you were concentrating on your foot.
>It is my fantasy that you can't. I couldn't tell YOU how my right hand
>felt whilst I was typing it in ...let us not say that you are not counting
>how many times you blinked whilst reading this clap-trap. ...etc ...etc
>
>...The point is, when you concentrate hard enough on anything, the rest of
>the universe becomes distant and ignore'able. Pain is just another on
>that list. :)
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>>I do have a question though because i dont understand the whole
>>trance thing too well, is the trance the same as distractin your
>>logic side to switch the right side of the brain??
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>Logic is not done by a "normal" right brain (I.E. Every brain is
>different, this is a RULE, *not* a fact.) The right brain tends to obey
>evrything it is told to do, because it is only commanded by the analitical
>left brain - the b.s. filter, if you like. If you can occupy the left
>brain sufficiently, you can communicate directly with the right brain. Of
>course, we still have 'id', 'ego' and 'superego' to encounter, but we've
>certainly eluded Cerberus (the Left-Brain.)
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>Hope that makes sense :)
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>BC
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>>Thanx people.
