Posted by Ted (152.163.201.78) on January 14, 2000 at 22:26:01:
In Reply to: Hey, its only a brain acting on base-instinct, not high-order reason posted by Q on January 14, 2000 at 20:46:09:
tie the extra gray matter of the hypo region into your theory? Or would you suggest that this is where the craving for the pleasure comes from so strongly?
I think that you made a very good point above when fighting the pain. Don't fight it. Let it flow through you with the understanding that it will leave your body, and yes, return again, but also leave again. This is a hard thing to do. And I was once quite good at it. But eventually, I just gave up on keeping the practice. Over the past year I've been working at building it up again. And what I've seen through these phases is that, whether the actual sensations diminished or not while in practice, the effect that they had on me was nowhere as devastating.