Physical pain is excruciating, it attracts attention, prevents you from thinking about anything else, exhausts a person. I want to get rid of it as soon as possible, so people immediately rush to the pharmacy for painkillers. However, suffering can be eliminated in other ways.
Instruction manual
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To begin with, it should be recognized that pain is just a physiological stimulus that occurs in the brain. This is a warning that something in the body is not going as it should. That is, pain does not serve as a hindrance to normal life, but helps a person to signal that measures must be taken to restore balance. Moreover, it has not only a physical basis - tissue disruption or irritation, but also a psychological one. This psychological aspect makes the pain so unbearable. A person immediately begins to imagine how sick he is, all the horrors of his situation pass before his eyes, he thinks how he will live on, which can multiply his sufferings and make them unbearable. If you do not think too much, calm down, take pain as a given and help for the body, it will not be so strong.
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Simple techniques based on knowledge of psychology will also help reduce discomfort. For example, when you get hurt or cause another injury to yourself, you just need to calm down and carefully examine the affected area. The pain will subside almost immediately, because the human brain tends to exaggerate the cause of the unpleasant sensations, thereby increasing the soreness of the wound. When the place of damage is visible, the panic ceases and the painful sensations gradually decrease. True, this advice is only suitable for really small injuries, as you can lose consciousness from the appearance of an open fracture, a gunshot wound or multiple tears of tissues.
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Caffeine can reduce pain, so after the first day in the gym, a small cut or careless fall, you need to drink a little coffee. It turns out that he not only invigorates after a long lack of sleep, but also brings mental and physical indicators back to normal after suffering stress from pain.
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Laugh and smile more, in spite of all the suffering that you experience. Of course, it’s a little unusual to look for a reason to laugh when thoughts are riveted only to a aching place on the body, and hands are pulled for another pill of pain medication. Nevertheless, laughter increases the amount of endorphins in the blood, and they serve as natural painkillers. By the same principle, having sex helps well.
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For the sake of reducing pain, it’s worth looking at something more terrible: in this way the brain switches from one object of fear to another, and a person understands that there are more terrible things in this life, so it’s easier to relate to its troubles. So when you suffer from body discomfort, find scary pictures or watch a horror movie.
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It is useful to convince yourself that pain is not only pain, but a good sign. After training, unpleasant sensations in the body can even be pleasant, and pain in the scar means that the healing process is successful. In addition, since often such manifestations serve as a warning about dangerous processes in the body, it means that they should be an occasion to take care of your body, visit a doctor, start sports, switch to a healthier diet.