Lots of idle thought today that can more or less be traced to "that really annoying muscle knot in my back".
Dropping the daydreaming removes the sense of distractedness, but makes the pain much higher resolution.
Bog-standard dissociation.
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It's totally doable to get a handle on pain and other annoyances by going the opposite way, by soaking it in so much attention it attenuates.
But this is fairly demanding and requires attending, over and over and over, to unpleasantness.
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expand awareness as far out as possible, as one object, the attend to the tiny pain.
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Esp. Hard if you have chronic health shit that makes you always in pain somewhere.
Still worth. I've learned so much about my body and how it works; often the initial source of pain, given attention, will move until it hits the spot that is actually damaged /out of place.
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I had an experience with this last winter when a tooth abscessed and I had to wait two days to have it removed. If I stayed still and only focused on the pain it became just another sensation and not at all a problem. If I took my attention away I would be overwhelmed with agony
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Interesting. I had a toothache recently that I mistook at first for an abscess (was a sinus inflammation applying pressure to the tooth nerve).
The pain was so intense, throbbing, constant that I legitimately couldn't find any way to bring enough focus in to attenuate it.
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