Is pain truly and only in the mind?

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NO! People can truly be in pain because something is going on in their bodies. I think it's possible to make the pain worse by dwelling on it, but believing that pain is only in the mind is simply ridiculous. Just ask a cancer patient, or someone with kidney stones, or a gall bladder problem..

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No. I can pinch you when you are sleeping and you would still feel it. I would still hurt.

yep, its how your brain perceives the impulses. thats why some people like pain, the wires got crossed somewhere and to them it feels like pleasure.

I read somewhere that if you hypnotize somebody and put a postage stamp on their arm and tell them it's on fire, the skin will blister. But if you put real flame to their skin and tell them it doesn't hurt, the skin doesn't blister. Weird, huh? Kind of a "I think, therefore I am" thing.

Pain that you feel comes from something in your brain.kind of like when you take a bite of something really hot, you know it is hot from sensors coming from your brain. You can make the pain worse from your brain. Mind over matter kind of thing.

"Mind" is such a subjective, widely and loosely used term.

Pain is "sensed" by the nervous system. Both the Peripheal Nervous System (PNS) which consists of the nerves and neurons that send impulses to the Central Nervous System (CNS). The CNS consists of the brain and the spinal cord, and serves as the processing center.

There was a news article about a little girl that couldn't feel any kind of pain. http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/02/03/btsc.oppenheim/

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As we all know, pain comes in many forms, body, mind and spirit.

In the case of physical pain, the nerve impulses from the site of the perceived pain is sent to the brain which interprets it. Some studies have produced amazing results showing instances where a pain gate can be opened and the brain will continuously signal the body to feel pain even where no pain should be perceived ie: the fairly common phantom pain of amputees.

Because pain is in the mind, there are ways to perceive pain without suffering. Transcendental meditation is an excellent way to minimize the suffering that occurs with pain. It helps many people who are terminally ill spend their last bit of time on Earth without mind altering pain medications. With this meditation technique some people are able to learn to recognize, accept and transcend from the suffering of their pain.

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