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Re: Meditation and pain management
Reply #25 - Sep 8^th, 2010 at 8:33am

Marc wrote on Sep 8^th, 2010 at 7:59am:

I've been "driven" to places like that a few times by reaching point that I just couldn't take any more. It did indeed almost feel like I was able to step outside of the loop and look back in a more detached manner. An interesting experience to say the least.

I didn't have any trouble with interruptions because there was nothing but me and the exquisite pain to focus on. Sitting here now trying to describe it makes it sound strange, but it was darn powerful at the time.

I can pretty much identify, Marc and MJ. The experience has happened so many times, a second-by-second coping to endure eventually prevails somehow, and considering the intensity, could be considered sort of composed by some standards. There can be momentary inexplicable easing from the worst, but no where near holding an entire hit at bay by constant meditation.

Both were better than my description - kind of like trying to meditate diarrhea away.

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Re: Meditation and pain management
Reply #26 - Sep 8^th, 2010 at 10:03am

MJ wrote on Sep 8^th, 2010 at 1:14am:

bonkers wrote on May 29^th, 2010 at 5:49pm:

No doubt that meditation could be very beneficial to cluster patients or to anyone suffering severe pain. The problem is, the only way for it to be truly effective is for the one meditating to focus on his pain; not the psycho-emotional reactions surrounding the pain but the actual, physical sensations of the pain itself. Nobody wants to do that.

Ron

This is the method I use when in the depths of all too frequent 10s.
My entire focus goes into the pain and it becomes allmost like a separation from the body. The pain converts to a different feeling but too often the interuption of reality slams it back front and center.

We all have our own special way of dealing with extreme pain and each is different.

I sometimes feel guilty for needing recovery time from the hits, but they are so draning in every way possible that even when the pain is gone, I am still a bit shaken from the whole experience. I feel like once it's all over, I should snap back into the daily grind, but it's kinda like having come through a hurricane and acting as if nothing happened.

Not sure if this makes sense.

I often think that CHs would be the ultimate interrogation weapon.

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