Localizing Pain

Body pain tends to radiate, especially if you think that it does. I wanna share with you a technique for localizing pain that I have been doing for years. Last night I was thinking about it and thanking God for the ability, and then thought, why not share it on Lowlycook’s Hub Pages?

Localizing pain means you stifle pain’s tendency to radiate and be felt by your whole body. You confine it where it should be—limited to the source. Sometimes, in advanced forms, you can eliminate pain totally. I do that when allowed. But understand that pain is essential to make us mature. Intellectual and emotional maturity is POWER.

Limiting pain within the area of the source is like local anesthesia. But this one’s mental. There are 3 things to concentrate on:

1. It’s not part of me.

2. It’s there but it isn’t there.

3. Oh, that’s nothing.

This will only work if your body is obedient to your mind. If your body is rebellious, you need to discipline and train it. I trained mine for years, and is still under training for level ups.

It’s Not Part of Me

This is getting the pain out of your body mentally. You see it but it isn’t part of you. It’s not your leg, if it’s the leg. It’s not your body. Slowly, you may feel like there’s a slight throbbing on that part, with the pain greatly reduced. The pain does not radiate anymore, it’s been localized. You have detached or disconnected the pain from your mind. That certain tiny spot feels it, but your mind has blocked the pain messages transmitted by pain receptors, effectively preventing them from spreading to other parts of the body.

It’s There But It Isn’t There

If your tooth aches and you don’t localize it, the pain will radiate to your jaw, head, ear, and eyes, so that you seem to have aches all over. You lose sleep. Localize it and the pain stays in the tooth, even decreasing. Disown it and it disappears. Yes, it’s there, but it isn’t there, and you’re still able to enjoy reading, eating, watching, or sleeping.

Oh, That’s Nothing

Tummy reflux may induce gas to rise to the chest and cause chest pain that seems like a heart attack and scares you so much that your heart beats wildly. Then you feel dizzy and weak, and that scary picture may pump your blood pressure up. Localize it. Think clear and straight and tell yourself to stop that stupid thought. It’s just a reflux and it’s nothing. When the pain is localized (brought down to its true nature) all other symptoms disappear.

I’m not pulling anyone’s leg here. I’ve been using this mind technique to calm people down when they’re in pain, agony, or anguish. I use it on myself. It was effective during my son’s circumcision and mine (well, when I was a teenager, that is). And there’s no side effect. I used it on my dad to help ease the pain of inserting catheters. I used it on my mom after a head trauma. Sometimes, you don’t need to talk to patients in pain. When they know you to be a powerful and positive person, all they need is one touch from you or to see you, and the pain is reduced considerably. But it will never take effect if they know you to be a negative or weak person.

Localizing pain requires tremendous mind power. Mind power should be exercised daily and trained with commitment. For starters, you need to possess the mind of God.

Yes, it all starts and ends with God, and empowered by God’s mindset. God psychology. If you don’t believe this, this hub isn’t for you. “As a man thinks, so he is,” says a proverb. The mind is a tremendous power device designed to control not just the body but things outside the body as well. If you really believe, you can command a mountain to be thrown to the sea, and it will obey you, says the Master. What more a small pain in your body?

Mind power begins with filling it only with power concepts and principles. Human frailty and silly weakness mentality are a definite No-No. It won’t do to think we’re not perfect, or nobody’s perfect, or “I’m just human.” Trash them all and replace them with power concepts, like “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” or “Having in whole measure the fullness of Christ.” So, meditation is vital. Remember, as a man thinks, so he is.

Some do yoga and it gives them mind power. I used to do that when I was in high school, and I felt its power. And I say with regret that many yoga practitioners are more positive thinkers than many Christians are. But God-power is really something else altogether. You get it by meditating His power principles in Scripture.

It surprises me that many Christians think meditation is reading the bible for hours. That’s western Christianity. They do not know eastern meditation. They think that when they’re so absorbed in studying God’s word, they’re meditating. You can be so absorbed in your thesis work and still remain negative and weak—still unable to localize pain.

Meditation is when transformation happens while you absorb God’s spoken word into your being, into your system. You don’t just read; you listen with your heart. You eat and digest what you hear. No straining here—you just relax and receive. There’s a transfer or an impartation. You’re never the same, so radically transformed. You become. The Word becomes flesh in you.

Relax and empty yourself. Daily you get trash from the world—what you see and hear, even from the church and church people who do not know what they’re talking about. Empty your vessel thoroughly and fill it with God. Meditate this: “God is God alone, He alone is powerful. There’s no other. And nothing’s impossible to Him…and I’m His child through Jesus HIS Son. Nothing is impossible for me.”

I’m not saying you recite the above over and over like a chant. There’s no magic formula here. Just meditate something like it….just be aware of its power. Let it fill you. Surrender. I do this daily, through the day. It’s an awareness. It’s being it.

Discipline the body to always obey the mind. When the mind is filled with power concepts, and the body obeys it, then localizing pain—and other power stuff—will become simple. Progressing in them in ever-increasing power will be smooth.

But if say, your mind knows (according to bible power concepts) that vices are bad for you, and yet your body disobeys, power concepts like localizing pain will not work for you. If your mind knows it’s wrong to succumb to carnal anger or ego-boosting and your body disobeys, or if your mind knows that regular exercise is needful but your body would not, don’t count on any power miracles.

Now, before we end, I always tell my readers, never ignore regular check ups with your doctor. When pain looks serious and is recurring and getting worse, go get a check up...and you need your faith built up more.