Sadly, but modern medicine, which has a huge number of pain relieving drugs in its arsenal, is not always able to effectively help the sufferer.
The action of medications usually does not begin immediately, not in all cases it is effective and often has adverse consequences.
Where is the exit? Can you learn how to manage pain without using analgesics? It turns out yes! This is confirmed by the following amazing facts.
In 1928, an Austrian artist with the theatrical pseudonym To-Rama performed at the Moscow Circus. He showed complete insensitivity to pain. The artist learned how to drown it after being wounded by a grenade fragment at the end of the First World War. In the hospital, doctors recognized his condition as hopeless, and he knew about it.
“Then,” wrote To-Rama, “something revolted in me … I gritted my teeth, and I had only one thought:“You must stay alive, you will not die, you will not feel any pain”. I repeated this to myself an infinite number of times, until this thought entered my flesh and blood so much that I finally ceased to feel pain.
I don't know how it happened, but something incredible happened. The doctors shook their heads. My condition began to improve from day to day. So I survived only with the help of will. Two months later, in one of the Viennese hospitals, I underwent a small operation without anesthesia and even without local anesthesia, one autosuggestion was enough. And when I fully recovered, I worked out my system of victory over myself and went so far in this respect that I do not experience suffering at all, if I do not want to experience it."
In March 1927, To-Rama underwent a thorough medical examination at the Medical Society in Berlin. It showed that the artist is completely healthy and normal, he has no signs of hysteria. It was found that it does not suppress pain, as many thought, but simply turns it off.
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Another unique person who learned to inspire himself that there is no pain was the athlete Alexander Potapov.
In February 1972, as part of the Leningrad national team in high-speed underwater sports, Potapov was at a training camp in Novosibirsk. Preparing for the championship of the USSR Armed Forces. And misfortune had to happen: in training Potapov injured the foot of his left leg. An infection got into the wound, an inflammatory process began, the leg was swollen. He could not put the fins on his leg because of the severe pain. I had to do something.
If you do not participate in the competition, it means that you will let down the team that will be "in the tail. The coach immediately "discharged" a substitute participant from Northern Palmyra. He was an excellently trained swimmer, but a rather weak submariner and speedman and would hardly have saved the position of the Leningrad national team.
Potapov went to the surgeon, who assured that he needed a small operation, several stitches and - the leg would be as good as new. Cut it. And after three days the seams parted. The wound became inflamed again. The pain is intense. Swimming is impossible, and there is very little time left before the competition.
Then Potapov began to train only with the ideomotor method. To put it simply, he repeatedly replayed in his brain how he covered the distance. And at night, lying in bed before going to bed, he endlessly repeated that he did not feel any pain. And suddenly the moment came when Potapov completely stopped feeling his leg.
Finally the day of the competition came. Teammates together dissuaded Potapov from starting: they say, not Alexei Maresyev, because this is only a sport. But Potapov finally decided: "I will float!" And, I must say, he performed successfully, although the seams on his leg parted again. And literally a week later he performed at the USSR Cup in Chelyabinsk and fulfilled the standard of an international master of sports.
By the way, the leg healed only after three months. So for a long time he anesthetized himself with conviction and willpower. Moreover, this ability was preserved as a skill for the rest of his life.
If necessary, the following self-hypnosis formula is used: “My right (left) hand is“frozen”. I do not feel anything. My hand is gone. I have no hand ….
It is enough to concentrate for two minutes (no more) to demonstrate an almost Indian trick: for example, piercing your palm with a sterile needle without even gasping.
At the same time, there will be no narrowing of the pupils or an increase in pulse rate, which is usually observed with volitional suppression of pain, and blood will not come out of the puncture site.
Why is there no blood? It's simple. By reducing pain sensitivity by self-hypnosis of cold, you get the effect of narrowing the blood vessels. (By the way, in such cases, the temperature of the skin on the back of the hand can drop by two degrees.) Still, you cannot insure yourself completely against bleeding.
When the needle is inserted, you can accidentally puncture a large blood vessel, and then "scarlet water" will inevitably come out. So don't just grab the needle and experiment on yourself. This must first be learned (Indian yogis achieve this mastery through many years of training and severe austerity).