pain can it be stopped?

in ur body there are certain chemicals for pain when you get hurt the chemicals get released and it triggers a nerve making you feel pain right?
so would it be possible to stop eating certain foods that help produce those chemicals so you wouldnt feel pain? or would this have side effects

wrong. Like any sensation such as movement or warmth, our bodies have specialised nerve fibres which transmit these sensations from the environment outside of our bodies to our brains. These specialised nerve fibres (called nociceptors) can tell the difference between harmful (noxious) stimuli and harmless stimuli. Stimulation of nociceptors leads to the transmission of pain signals.

no chemicals are released from the brain to make us feel pain. However the brain does release chemicals such as natural morphine, adrenaline etc, that do supress pain to some degree. Some people (lucky people) have the ability to force the brain into making more of these and can litterally block out pain without the aid of injections of pain killers etc. There was a documentary about a woman who could do this and on tv actually underwent the ampution of her toe without anesthetic and did not feel any pain. :neutral:

Some foods may help stimulate the production of anti-pain chemicals as for side-effects i couldn’t say i don’t know anything about bio-chemistry lol.

I know you can concentrate on decreasing pain, which work to some degree… I doubt it is possible to remove pain 100% though, unless you take painkillers

Disabling pain doesn’t sound like a good idea to me.
It’s used to warn you something is going wrong, imagine if there was no pain you would burn your hands on hot water without knowing it, you could bleed to death without feeling it… we just need it, even though it can be very bad sometimes.

I was thinking pain killers. Or they invented some kind of electrode in the brain technology. I asume this will be used to cure severe pain.

Why not at only a limit then!!

there allready is a limit… :wink:
I dont think you could move that limit very far off like what it is now.

I can handle pain to some degree, but i havent really practiced enough too see how far I can go. What I’ve been doing is taking a very slow pain (i.e. slowly stabbing your hand with a pencil :tongue: , grabbing an ice cube and letting it melt in your hand) and consentrating only on the pain. This really helps, I just keep thinking that pain is just a feeling, its just a message, its just an intensified touch, its just a feeling. I when I concentrate on it, I see it really is a feeling, like with the ice, although it isnt pain, its still not very comfortable, and I just concentrate on that, on the pain running up my arm, and seeing that its mearly a feeling. Same thing goes for slowly stabbing myself with a pencil. Heat works too! I’ll have to practice more, because I still can’t ignore quick sharp pains.

With the strength of trained mind, you can ignore the pain completely. I have researched a bit about that before and it is said that yogis while in deep meditation becomes stone-like. If you try to hurt that meditator, he or she will not feel any pain. Let me see if I can find some quotes about that for you… it’s pretty interesting actually.

Also other thing, the pain… you have tolerance limit for the pain. If it becomes too much for you, either you don’t feel it at all (shock) or pass out. We all feel the pain for one reason, to protect us from further injuries, but the pain has to stop somewhere especially when we can’t bear the pain anymore. It’s most likely you’d pass out if that happens.

So what I’m saying here is, there are some way that you can stop pain on your own without painkillers. Your own mind is a powerful thing. Mind over matter. :smile: I have stopped a lot of pain in the past and still stopping the pain sometimes now on.

Hopefully it’s helpful for you. Enjoy! :content:

I do the same thing. I found out years ago that if I just focused on the pain, it would kinda “draw me in,” and it would cease to be pain, it would just become a “sensation.”