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Pain occurs in three distinct planes:
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Mental or Emotional
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Physiological
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Neurological
No matter where the pain originates or
occurs, it is always felt or “Perceived” only in the “Conscious Mind”. This
implies that at the “Unconscious” - state / level - of Mind, Pain cannot be
perceived or experienced.
This is the “Principle” that is applied,
which works behind Painkillers & Anesthesia. Painkiller is in fact a mild
anesthesia. As the consciousness of the mind gets progressively lowered
(either on its own - like deep sleep, or through artificial inducement) so
does the intensity of the Pain perceived at that corresponding moment. When
the consciousness is regained progressively, the pain perception returns
accordingly.
There have been men well trained in Yoga
in India, who could practice “Selective” Consciousness on matters of their
Choice. For example - they could go through a major surgery without
anaesthesia, while having a lively conversation with the operating
surgeons. Hence you can conclude that pain is a relative perception in
accordance with the consciousness applied by the individual (Cell, Organ of
the Body or the Whole Man) to the event, incident or the experience.
Fainting is the mechanism of body’s own
pain management system to aid survival. This “Principle” of - mind
consciousness related pain perception - is valid both at microcosmic
(Cellular) level, and the macrocosmic (Whole Body) level.
Definition of Pain:
When an effort to exist or survive gets
challenged by conditions – physical - or -environmental - or -
circumstantial, from causes internal or external to the living being, either
individually - or - collectively in a group, there emerges a need to
increase the quantum & level of effort to meet the new demand for survival.
When this demand progressively increases
and reaches a limit – or - the demand suddenly increases and reaches that
limit, whereby there is no more capacity left in store to increase the
effort to meet the new demand, it results in “Stress”. Further increase of
the stress results in “Distress”. This distress can also be called
“Trauma”.
This distress or trauma, from where it
exists, gets communicated to another point from where the attention & help
is sought -- such as from cells of a crushed finger to the mind via nerves &
brain.
Thus Pain is - primarily “The
Expression, or, Communication of Distress / Trauma” from its own "location"
of occurrence.
But there is some thing more important - the receiving end of
the communication - "Mind". This is where the relativity & choice come into
play. The relative importance any such communication gets at the receiving
end, determines the "intensity & acuteness" of Pain. If the communication
gets high importance for attention temporarily, the pain is acute but
transient. If the importance & attention is permanent, then it is chronic
pain. The level of attention & type of importance given is a conscious
choice exercised at the receiving end.
Finally - the ultimate definition of Pain and its "datum" is
-- "Applied Consciousness to a Perceived Trauma or Distress". Higher the
conscious attention to the perceived trauma & distress - higher the pain,
and vice versa.
Mental Pain:
A perceived (real or imagined) “distress / trauma” due to loss of an object
very dear to the individual - or - of another person very dear to the
individual – or – any combination of factors thereof, originating and
connected with the inter relationship involving the individual, the objects
and other persons.
Anger, Jealousy, Frustration, Hatred,
Depression, feeling of Oppression, Suppression, Disability, Inability,
Melancholy, Sorrow, Sadness ..etc are all different forms of Mental Pain.
Physiological Pain:
“Distress / Trauma” at cellular level where by an individual or a group of
cells in the body of a living being get traumatized by an Injury, Burn or a
Disease and call for attention, help and remedy.
There are numerous varieties of these
pains such as – Pricking, Piercing, Stabbing, Tearing, Squeezing, Pulling,
Cutting, Splitting, Dull, Nagging, Burning, Boring, Shifting, Drifting,
Shooting, Shocking, Numbing …etc, the description purely based on the
individual’s choice of perception.
Neurological Pain:
An arbitrary electrical wave generated anywhere in the nervous system
of a living being, which is similar or identical to the electrical wave that
normally represents and signals a physiological pain of a particular nature
and location, gets perceived by the individual as such.
Neurological pains normally occur where
the nerve tissues are traumatized by the violence of a surgical operation.
April 21, 2003
http://www.painstudy.com/NonDrugRemedies/Pain/p5.htm
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