Altering your own reality?

[i_am]

First post...glad to be here! It nice to have found a place where I can talk about things that make most people's head spin.


Has anyone had any experience eliminating a widely accepted idea (such as pain, illness, etc...) by not accepting it and allowing it to become part of your consciousness?

[Xanth]

First post...glad to be here! It nice to have found a place where I can talk about things that make most people's head spin.


Has anyone had any experience eliminating a widely accepted idea (such as pain, illness, etc...) by not accepting it and allowing it to become part of your consciousness?

I have actually.  I played with the idea a bit when I was younger.  At the time I didn't really FULLY realize what I was doing, but I do now and I think it's neat.
The concept of "cold"... I noticed that if I kept my mind busy doing other things, then parts of my body (ie: ears, nose, hands, etc) wouldn't "feel" the effects of the cold around me.
It wasn't until I noticed the effects that the effect actually kicked in.

I honestly haven't tested this within the last long while though.

[Sagar]

I've played around with this too a little.  I found out you could eliminate cold by almost doing the opposite.  Instead of keeping your mind busy, you can meditate and clear your mind.  Meditation many times seems to make me dissociate from the physical, but even in this case dissociation wasn't needed to eliminate cold. 

[Xanth]

I've played around with this too a little.  I found out you could eliminate cold by almost doing the opposite.  Instead of keeping your mind busy, you can meditate and clear your mind.  Meditation many times seems to make me dissociate from the physical, but even in this case dissociation wasn't needed to eliminate cold. 

Exactly!

And that is also the first step into projecting too.  The pushing away of everything physical.

[Re]

Since I was a kid I've been using a method for withstanding pain or discomfort by actually embracing it. Turns out the most discomforting stuff is actually in our minds. At least for me, the fear of suffering worsens the suffering itself much more. Of course I'm talking about cuts, bruises, colds, food poisoningand that kind of normal stuff. I don't know about more serious stuff.

[Szaxx]

How about removing the pain from having a filling in a back tooth.
Impressed my dentist when I said "go for it".
I'd not really try it today. Not practiced this in a long time.

[Kzaal]

Yeah that stuff is very common, I like to see it as my Qi, my energy.
I can warm my body if I'm cold just by concentrating my energy there.
I can also stop bleeding from cuts just by blowing air on it.

You can also change the temperatures around you. If I'm in my room and it's too cold or too hot I can change it.
It's all about manipulating energy around you really. You know both sides, Absorb heat to change the temperature to cold. Release Heat to change to warm.

Other stuff like telekinesis or anything like Pyrokinesis, hydrokinesis etc. may be pushed a little, but I know telekinesis is real, I've seen it in action.
As for others well... I guess it just depends how good you can manipulate energy.
You can alter most situations in your life if you're a "REAL" medium.
Most mediums wouldn't even let any of their visions come to life if they're bad.
Mediums are really people who make so many probabilities in their minds that they got a clear sight of what's coming.
Some may have clear vision like they show you on TV. But it's rare...
So yeah they alter life situations.
I wouldn't say you'd be able to change silver into gold but hehe maybe someday hahaha

[Lionheart]

 I can't totally eliminate my pain (I wish I could though). But when I experience it at a show I am doing, I can defer it to a later time. I just make a deal with my body that it can hurt later, but not now.

I have been at shows where other people have been in pain or injured themselves and I have taught them how to defer it as well. Many times to the shock of other bystanders around. A couple of times I used this deferring at an event where there was no EMTs to help this injured person. I told them that there was no one there to help and that the pain was a signal that something was wrong. So, they needed to tell their body that they understood there was a problem, but could not do anything about it at this immediate time. So, they had to defer that pain until a later time when they were receiving the proper help they needed.

You may say the body and mind already realized this and normally I would agree with you. But, I have found that they must be both on the same page. It must be something that said, fully understood and BELIEVED. There is no doubt in my voice when I say this to them.

[Xanth]

I awoke this morning with a slight headache which I was able to temporarily push aside.  I mean, it did come back, but yeah... was neat none-the-less.

[Bluefirephoenix]

I can do this with headaches. I used to be on a ton of medications for migraines but don't take any now. The hip pain from the sprain that I did in April is greatly improved but not totally gone. I'm off blood pressure medications so yea it's possible success varies.  I have a fairly good knack for doing this I think.

[i_am]

Great answers so far...thanks!

[Ellury]

How about removing the pain from having a filling in a back tooth.
Impressed my dentist when I said "go for it".
I'd not really try it today. Not practiced this in a long time.

I had my wisdom teeth removed just last year and I'm really against taking meds so I refused a prescription for pain medication. Needless to say if not for the holes in my gums I would have wonder if they ever even removed my teeth in the first place. I felt nothing, nor when I had to get most of my molars drilled and filled.

I used to play soccer too and we girls were scrimmaging against the boys. One of them went to drive the ball into the goal with all his might and I moved in the way at the wrong time and got smacked in the head and knocked to the ground pretty hard. But every time I got injured in soccer I always had this midset "I don't have time to worry about pain I got to keep going" So when i sprang back to my feet and started after the ball I noticed every one had stopped and were asking if I was ok.

Its just since I was a young kid for some reason I got some idea in my head that medicine was bad and that it caused more damage than helped and that my body was stronger than any flu or sickness and I could deal with pain. I find pain easier to deal with when i annoy other people about hurt

[soarin12]

My parents were Christian Scientists and so I was raised this way.  Never taking medicine -always rejecting pain and sickness from our minds.  It didn't work for me, though.  Ironically I have had several healing miracles (migraines, flu, strep throat) after I grew up and changed my tactics somewhat.  These healings happened after I asked God for the healing and believed that it would take place.  Then an intense energy swept over me which lasted for several minutes, and the sickness/pain disappeared.  A little different than what we used to do when I was young which was basically to deny the existence of the sickness (understand that it was and illusion).  I was probably too young to fully embrace this method and thus was not very good at it.  The personal touch of a loving compassionate God is what I connected with and I got results with that approach.  It certainly was an interesting childhood, though.  I think I almost died a couple times.    No meds. ever!

[Dreamshards]

This is really just the same technique that people try to tell pregnant woman to use when they go into labor. Obviously it is not that easy to put yourself in a mindset that is disconnected from the pain. Pain is processed by the brain, so I completely believe if you get your mind to focus on something you can diminish pain. However, it doesn't mean it won't come back and that you have to face it eventually, but it can make the pain more tolerable when you will it so. I think if you dramatize sickness and pain then it will have the opposite effect: it can make it linger or worsen it. 

[no_leaf_clover]

Has anyone had any experience eliminating a widely accepted idea (such as pain, illness, etc...) by not accepting it and allowing it to become part of your consciousness?

Kind of.  I got rid of depression this way, except I had to do the opposite:  accept it.  Sometimes resisting something strongly is only another way of feeding it more energy to allow it to continue to exist.


It's like if you have a lucid dream, and you see something scary so you turn and run from it.  By turning and running you're giving power to the scary thing and playing out the whole scary scenario.  But if you just calmly accept it, and look at it and study it carefully, the scary thing will usually turn into something ridiculous and laughable.  Because you control yourself, you control the object of your consciousness.


I used to have to stand at attention regularly without being allowed to move, even to scratch myself while in a very itchy uniform.  Because of this I learned to make the itching sensation feel very pleasurable.  Now when I itch, lots of times I still don't scratch it because it feels pretty good.


I've never had to deal with particularly bad pain that I can remember.  I'm sure if I thought about it I could think of times when I've been in lots of pain but I don't particularly even want to.  I don't feel pain now so why feel it in the past?  XD