How to develope high pain tolerance?!
Question: By repeatedly exposing yourself to pain. Martial artists repeatedly punch and kick object that are graduated in hardness. The objective to to create thousands of tiny little fractures that heal, and do that over and over. The repeatedly fractured and healed bones become stronger from the experience. This has to be done over time. This process also gradually deadens nerves.
Men who do very heavy work experience this process. A workmans hands become hard and relatively deadened to pain. Not long ago a nurse was trying to take blood from me to check on my blood pressure meds, and she couldn't find the vein. I told her to use the back my hand. She said that she didn't want to hurt me. I laughed, "My hand has a greater tolerance for pain." She did it, and I felt nothing. Years of hard work and busting boards with my fist. The back of my hand is deadened.
Some years back, my dad(in his 70's) had a pain in his leg and lower back. He was still coon hunting at night. He went to the doctor. The doctor looked at the xray and commented, I don't know how you walk. Dad had several crushed vertebrae and his spine was seriously out of alignment. His entire life was a life of denying pain. He expected everyone else to do it, too!
Physical pain can be denied and ignored, and the tolerance can be gradually raised.
I've learned that if I am involved in a project and my mind is focused there is less pain, or no pain. I can cut myself and ignore it. A wrench slips and you bust your knuckles. You ignore it. When I was in a fight, I felt nothing! Not until the fight was over.
I played with Chi in Kung Fu, and I did a little yoga many years ago. That has always been handy in the dentists office, because I don't know how to make my mouth tough. I simply find a vast empt space for my mind, a sort of nothingness that I drift into , but remain alert enough to respond to the requests of the dentist.
In Kung Fu we practiced turning our arms into light beams or streams of water, and someone would try to bend our arms. We used no muscle, didn't even resist and my arm never bent. A Tae Kwon Do Black Belt enrolled in our class expecting to make a big splash. He was a half head taller than me and half again in solid muscle. He got really frustrated that he could bend my arm. He tried everything. When I was changing after class I noticed that he had torn the skin in several places on my bicep. I hadn't felt a thing.
He never came back. He was all physical. Chi is something very different that comes from a different place.
I don't know a lot. I just know what I know
I've studied a little buddhism, too. "Every problem is an opportunity."
Answers: By repeatedly exposing yourself to pain. Martial artists repeatedly punch and kick object that are graduated in hardness. The objective to to create thousands of tiny little fractures that heal, and do that over and over. The repeatedly fractured and healed bones become stronger from the experience. This has to be done over time. This process also gradually deadens nerves.
Men who do very heavy work experience this process. A workmans hands become hard and relatively deadened to pain. Not long ago a nurse was trying to take blood from me to check on my blood pressure meds, and she couldn't find the vein. I told her to use the back my hand. She said that she didn't want to hurt me. I laughed, "My hand has a greater tolerance for pain." She did it, and I felt nothing. Years of hard work and busting boards with my fist. The back of my hand is deadened.
Some years back, my dad(in his 70's) had a pain in his leg and lower back. He was still coon hunting at night. He went to the doctor. The doctor looked at the xray and commented, I don't know how you walk. Dad had several crushed vertebrae and his spine was seriously out of alignment. His entire life was a life of denying pain. He expected everyone else to do it, too!
Physical pain can be denied and ignored, and the tolerance can be gradually raised.
I've learned that if I am involved in a project and my mind is focused there is less pain, or no pain. I can cut myself and ignore it. A wrench slips and you bust your knuckles. You ignore it. When I was in a fight, I felt nothing! Not until the fight was over.
I played with Chi in Kung Fu, and I did a little yoga many years ago. That has always been handy in the dentists office, because I don't know how to make my mouth tough. I simply find a vast empt space for my mind, a sort of nothingness that I drift into , but remain alert enough to respond to the requests of the dentist.
In Kung Fu we practiced turning our arms into light beams or streams of water, and someone would try to bend our arms. We used no muscle, didn't even resist and my arm never bent. A Tae Kwon Do Black Belt enrolled in our class expecting to make a big splash. He was a half head taller than me and half again in solid muscle. He got really frustrated that he could bend my arm. He tried everything. When I was changing after class I noticed that he had torn the skin in several places on my bicep. I hadn't felt a thing.
He never came back. He was all physical. Chi is something very different that comes from a different place.
I don't know a lot. I just know what I know
I've studied a little buddhism, too. "Every problem is an opportunity."
martial arts?
some of these guys can punch rocks all day, without bleeding or breaking bones.