Mysteries of the Mind

[Tisha]

Mind-over-matter only works to a certain extent.  I was stung in the back by a wasp and felt it right away!  Pure, physiological response.

Pain is nature's way of alterting you to the fact that something is wrong, so don't treat it like a bad thing.  It's better to go on a seek-and-destroy mission than to try to use "mind over matter" to ignore it.

[ThE_MaStEr_Of_PuPpEtS]

But why do we not feel the pain that isn't noticed by the mind?

[APGuy]

We do feel pain we don't realize should be there.  How do you explain a bee sting or poison ivy on the back.  If you mean when the mind itself doesn't realize it then it's simple.  The brain inerprets the pain from the nervous system.  So in the end it's like breathing or the heart beating.  There are ways of stopping it (in this case self hypnosis might or drugs could) but who would want to?

[ThE_MaStEr_Of_PuPpEtS]

Ah

[ThE_MaStEr_Of_PuPpEtS]

Who here belives its the mind that stops us from doing things we want to do? Who here believes that if you can make your mind believe you can do something that may seem impossible, then you will be able to do that certian thing.

I thought of this one day:

You know when you see your arm get cut and you feel the pain because your mind is aware of the cut, and, that when you get cut you feel pain. But. When you discover that you have a cut on you arm minutes maybe even hours after it happened and you don't feel it because your mind wasnt aware of it.

Does this mean that pain isnt real and that your mind is the only thing that makes you feel what you feel?