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• ggggtez 8y ago
  Performing a double blind test on whether meditation can help you avoid pain would probably be unethical. Most of the claims about meditation are not verified. You could certainly expect to avoid some pain by meditating. Maybe you picked up a coffee cup that is a little too warm, and you just "mind-over-matter" through it. Sure. But if you got shot? Well, I can't imagine a scientist is going to feel comfortable actually testing anyone claiming they could meditate their way through that.
  • zeroxfe 8y ago
    > Performing a double blind test on whether meditation can help you avoid pain would probably be unethical Um... how does one even perform such a test? It's not like you don't know you're meditating.
• jdietrich 8y ago
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1526590009006919 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S152659000... https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-01983-012 https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-01983-012 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030439591000223X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030439591... http://www.jneurosci.org/content/31/14/5540 http://www.jneurosci.org/content/31/14/5540 http://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/46/15307 http://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/46/15307
  • gotocake 8y ago
    Naively it makes sense, pain is just a sensation, but suffering is more complex. I doubt that we can truly shit off sensitivity to noxious stimuli, but meditation (and maybe some generic factors) seem like a way to manage reactions to that stimuli. Having said that, and skimming the links, I’d guess there’s a limit. A lot of what we’d naively expect to be excruciating is more upsetting and distressing than purely painful. Some things however, like inflammation of the trigemanal nerve, is really a source of intractable pain. I have my doubts that meditation would be of much use in that context, or extreme osteogenic pain.