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Another Way to Think of Pain (that might help you diminish it)

Started by Nash, December 28, 2013 · 2 Replies · 133 Views

Nash

There's a book that I read every year or so and this time an excerpt in it stood out. mainly because I recently discovered the existence of something called Bent Hollow Body Hold and Arch Body Hold.

 

Basically, two of lucifer's proud creations. 

 

Here goes:

 

 It is very easy to overreach the sensation. That is, to add something to it above and beyond what is really there. It is equally easy to fall short of sensation, to get part of it but not all. The ideal that you are striving for is to experience each mental state fully, exactly the way it is, adding nothing to it and not missing any part of it. Let us use pain in the leg as an example. What is actually there is a pure, flowing sensation. It changes constantly, never the same from one moment to the next. It moves from one location to another, and its intensity surges up and down. Pain is not a thing. It is an event. There should be no concepts tacked on to it and none associated with it. A pure unobstructed awareness of this event will experience it simply as a flowing pattern of energy and nothing more. No thought and no rejection. Just energy.

 

It's a weird approach, but if you accept it and stop thinking "is it over?, is it over yet?" you sorta start appreciating it.

 

kimura

I like that a lot, and have regarded pain in this way before. When I'm practicing mindfulness, pain feels like just another sensation, and you can feel the energy for what it is. Otherwise it feels like something to be avoided.

john_c

Sounds like something Krishnamurti would say.