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Wouldn't it be more natural to say, you don't need nitrous oxide to achieve this, you can practice to manage chronic pain.
by darepublic 8y ago
Wouldn't it be more natural to say, you don't need nitrous oxide to achieve this, you can practice to manage chronic pain.
- ggggtez 8y ago"Natural" is just a buzzword. People have eaten plants for medicinal purposes since pre-historic times. Why should we shy away from advances in medicine and force the patients to re-wire their brains instead? Meditation is unnatural. The natural thing is to experience pain when something painful happens.
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- vekker 8y agoMeditators still experience pain. They just train to "objectively" observe pain as pain, without creating more resistance - i.e. avoiding the "second arrow" https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn36/sn36.006.than.html https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn36/sn36.006.th... IMHO there is currently no way to re-program your mind like that with external means.