Healing Zen
65Pain management is crucial !
Are you in pain? Are you suffering? What causes this and what will fix it? Hello readers, I am not a doctor, but I do know a little bit about pain management in a Zen setting and maybe these things can help you. For starters what is "Pain" (seems easy enough) look it up and many answers come up right away, but asked straight out like that it becomes, well frankly harder to identify. Take nerve injury for example, agonizing pain to experience but its really a receptor system that causes the unpleasant sensation. How about toothaches? Those are the worst, "the throbbing" And nobody ever tells us that pain is a controllable thing. I know people who take medications for every malady under the sun, and talk about it like its a new fad, "oh I just started taking that myocellinephrim" or whatever (I sure hope that myocellinephrim isn't a real product) always this name drop is followed by the "oh hows that going?" and the coversation sounds like a dreadful latin alchemy torment session for masochists. Invariably someone moves to side effects and between swollen this and partial blindness, I personally tune it out. When the oohs and aahs and "Oh I'm going to try that'" session ends I ask Have you ever considered Meditation, Wow the excuse bus pulls out quick and everyone gets aboard....So here is a simple thing really and it has helped me numerous times with all sorts of aches and pains. Talk to the injury....still here? Good, maybe you need a doctor but helping yourself not to hurt isn't even life threatening at a hospital, maybe even beneficial, maybe less screaming "Oh my god it hurts" and more internal whispering "this isn't permanent" and "this will be fine shortly" can actually help you in the process of healing. Hey if I were buying stock right now it would be in medecines first, But when I am hurt I actually put my attention on some uninjured part of myself, and whisper in my mind. I do not baby myself I hate going to hospitals and have had plenty of mishaps over the years, for me this works 100% of the time and only ever failed me once. and that was more me than the method. So try it sometime let the hurt be and examine it, is it actually all that big? or more tingly when you confront it? Is the bone broken? Or do you just need to experience it mindfully? Pain when coddled is pain, pain when confronted is often a molehill made into a mountain by our anxiety. Look at how brave you just were! See it wasn't so bad after all. Bye for now......Oh and your trick of the day, I almost forgot using the other side of the body to mask pain, (easy stuff) never grab your injury, it spends your focus on the experience, which magnifies it, instead grab something soft and squeeze, (sorry Mildred are you okay?) I squeeze hard... the focus should be to relieve the underlying tension from the injury, rather than random squeezing. Try this on the opposite side of the body from the injury. Thanks for reading.
