posted on Apr, 13 2010 @ 11:22 AM
My best method follows along the lines of meditation so to speak. Though I can only say this only works for me, I've never really put this idea to
anyone else, so I wouldn't really know IF it could work for anyone else.
Quite simply, I block out pain by focusing on something else completely, whether it be a TV show, book, cartoons, music, something funny a friend said
one time, anything really mundane. I even sometimes just 'zone out', where I'm not thinking about anything
at all.
For example, about a year ago, I broke my foot while on a canyoning trip, deep down in a valley in Australia. I was lucky to be travelling with two
other men. It was a very long walk back up, so for a while I tried walking on it, and yes it was painful, but it helped for me to think about
something completely irrelevant to the situation. This doesn't block it out entirely, so after a long painful walk, I was carried by the two other
*muscly* men (I'm a very lucky girl
) for the rest of the long trip. It was considerably less painful, so I eased it even more again by focusing
on something else.
This has always worked for me. I'm not sure why, I have never practised the standard methods of meditation.
I'm curious to know the Russian Spetnaz soldier technique, I think I'll go look it up now.
Good luck.