How To Ignore Pain

  • January 21, 2010
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Sore muscles are all part of working your body to its maximum potential. Work through the pain and see serious results.

You Will Need

  • Deep breathing techniques
  • Motion
  • Focus
  • Relaxation techniques
  • Meditation
  • Soothing music (optional)

Ignoring pain can lead to serious injury or health problems. Consult your doctor regarding any pain you may be feeling to rule out serious heath risks.

How To Ignore Pain: Identify the pain

Step 1: Identify the pain

Identify the area that you are having difficulty with.

How To Ignore Pain: Accept the pain

Step 2: Accept the pain

Accept that you are in pain and understand that everyone feels pain at some point.

How To Ignore Pain: Breathe deeply

Step 3: Breathe deeply

Breathe deeply into the lungs and breathe out slowly to relax your mind and body.

How To Ignore Pain: Keep moving

Step 4: Keep moving

Keep your body active and moving.

How To Ignore Pain: Focus

Step 5: Focus

Focus on completing tasks that are painful by keeping your mind fixed on the end result or by separating your mind from the task altogether.

How To Ignore Pain: Relieve tension

Step 6: Relieve tension

Relieve muscle tension. Practice relaxing and tensing your muscles to feel the difference between the two states.

How To Ignore Pain: Meditate

Step 7: Meditate

Meditate in a quiet soothing place, relaxing the body by focusing on prayer, chanting, or doing deep breathing.

Listening to soothing, rhythmic music while meditating may increase relaxation and help regulate your breathing patterns.

How To Ignore Pain: Seek understanding

Step 8: Seek understanding

Seek out an understanding of your pain and try release all anxiety connected with it to find inner relaxation and peace.

Did you know? The first use of ether as a surgical anesthetic occurred on March 30, 1842 by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long.

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Comments (1)

Loly_Martinez

Depende del tipo de dolor, puede ser muscular en este caso del video yo recomendaria relajacion un poco de musica y masaje con algun unguento inclusive vendaje si fuera necesario. referente a este video, estoy muy nerviosa aunque he leido muchisimo todavia no se como comensar, se que lo voy a lograr, gracias por la pasiencia que me tienen y estoy entusiasmada voy a lograrlo.

8 months ago by Loly_Martinez

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