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Yeah, I am reading all these posts saying "if you just focus on the pain, it'll stop being a problem", with most examples being "my leg is sore", and wonder how
by projektir 8y ago
Yeah, I am reading all these posts saying "if you just focus on the pain, it'll stop being a problem", with most examples being "my leg is sore", and wonder how much time the people have actually spent trying to imagine high pain.
Comes to mind: https://xkcd.com/883/ https://xkcd.com/883/
I wonder how much this is related to poor understanding of the badness of certain situations...
- danharaj 8y agoGranted I think mindful pain management is a thing, especially chronic pain which I've had forever. But I've certainly felt acute pain far beyond the ability of my higher faculties to contend with...
- projektir 8y agoYeah, I won't disagree that things can be managed given certain conditions. There are definitely better and worse ways of greeting pain for the average person. But I'd never say it as an absolute and I think that's incredibly dangerous and the "suffering is an optional thing we invent in our heads" all over this thread is making me cringe.
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