Pain is an unpleasant sensation, an experience associated with damage to any part of the body or the threat of such damage. Fear of experiencing pain is the body's natural defensive response. But in many cases, you have to endure short-term or long-term pain. Therefore, for many it will be useful to get rid of the fear of experiencing pain.
Instruction manual
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Get ready for the pain. The fear of various pains will go away if you prepare in advance for all occasions: for illness, injury, toothache. Get a variety of painkillers, ointments, creams, etc. The psychological effect of security will work: as soon as something gets sick, all the medicines will be at hand. It remains only to accept them and wait for the effect.
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Raise your pain threshold. The pain threshold is an individual level of sensitivity to irritation that causes pain. A person with a high pain threshold feels less severe pain and almost does not feel mild pain. Regular sports, hardening, a healthy lifestyle, and good rest contribute to the increase in the pain threshold. In addition, it was found that with a lack of B vitamins in the body, the pain threshold is significantly reduced.
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Become a purposeful person, learn to manage your psychological state. Stenic emotions - aggression, excitement, an irresistible desire to achieve something - are accompanied by a decrease in sensitivity to pain. Asthenic emotions - fear, defenselessness, nervous stress - make a person more sensitive to pain. Choose for yourself some strong stenic emotion that will help dull the pain.
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Use pain massage to not be afraid to get a blow from someone, not to be afraid of pain from blows. In eastern martial arts, warriors learned not to be afraid of pain with the help of special pain massage. To do this, they gently tapped parts of the body with the edge of the palm, with a wooden stick, or with some solid object. Gradually the force of tapping increased, sensitivity to pain decreased. There was also a fear of striking.
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Convince yourself that pain is good. To do this, use any technique of self-hypnosis, self-hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming or meditation. The bottom line is that you need to inspire a huge benefit from pain. According to recent studies, sensitivity to pain is sharply reduced if you suggest to a person that he will get something very good from her. Fool yourself, suggest that as a result of the transferred pain you, for example, will get pumped up muscles or a slender body, or an improvement in brain activity. And the pain will become much easier to bear.