Did
you know that the feeling of pain is a result of what
you are focusing on? Yes, you have pain because you
are hurt, but you FEEL pain because of what you are
focusing on . . .
Have
you ever been cut, but you didn't realize it at first?
Then, when you did realize it, guess what! It started
to hurt! Whereas it hadn't until you realized you were
cut. Once you realize you've been cut, what are you
focusing on? The cut, right?
Have
you ever watched a child hurt themselves, but they were
in the middle of play and didn't realize it? Then, when
they were done playing and they came in the house and
noticed there was a big bruise or maybe some blood,
they started hurting. What does that mean? It means
they needed a visual set of submodalities before they
had that particular pain. A visual set of submodalities
means that they *saw* the painful area. They saw it,
it represented hurt, so they *felt* the pain. I'm not
saying people don't hurt, I'm saying there are times
they don't know they are hurt.
How
about when you were with someone who was hurt. Didn't
you automatically divert their attention *to get their
mind off the pain*? While the person was totally focused
on what you were doing, they, more or less, forgot about
the pain. They had a different set of submodalities
and at that point they had no pain.
Pain
is a strategy. Strategy is nothing more than organizing
your resources. Your resources for pain might be what
you see, then what you feel, then what you know. You
may not be setting it off consciously, but it's a strategy.
Pain
will happen automatically to signal something's wrong.
Sometimes you know it's wrong and you correct it, but
you keep feeling the pain. The reason is you keep running
the strategy.
Recognize
your submodalities.
***
Submodalities are what you experience mentally *inside
your head* or physically *with your body,* using your
five senses of hear, feel, smell, see, or taste. Feeling
could be the actual touching or it could be how you
feel physically. ***
Change
your submodalities.
Refuse
to feel pain, and change your submodalities so that
you don't. If you are in a lot of pain, have someone
talk you through it. If you know someone who suffers
and want to work with them on it, take this article
with you.
***
Pain is a symptom of something happening within your
body. Recognize the symptom for what it is, do something
about it, AND do something about your submodalities
so you don't have to FEEL the pain. Make sure your doctor
takes care of your body, and YOU do everything you can
to take care of your pain. ***
Thanks
for reading.