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Dealing With Physical Pain · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In various places, SRI aurobindo describes the possibility of
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  pain becoming for the spiritual practitioner and intense form of
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  spiritual Bliss Ananda. He is describing the
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  psychological experience of a realized Soul who has separated
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  himself from attachment to an identification with the physical
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  body. This is intended to show that
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  vibrations. Experience can have a different
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  result when the individuals shifts, the standpoint of the
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  Consciousness, it is not meant as a prescription to enjoy pain.
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  If pain comes to one and one has the ability to distance oneself
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  from it, through such means as a realized Soul, then it is
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  psychologically neutralized, but the underlying cause of the pain
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  is not resolved. For those who still have
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  substantial identification with the body Consciousness and who
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  are attempting to live a life in the world.
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  Pain has both a purpose and a measure of usefulness.
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  It alerts the individual to some issue imbalance or acute injury
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  that needs to be looked after and it awakens the awareness to
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  make some effort. Those were fully satisfied and
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  comfortable tend to be less likely to take steps to achieve
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  radical change in their lives than those who feel pressure or
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  pain at some level. The mother has another Viewpoint
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  that goes to the root of physical pain.
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  Such pain is caused by injury, indisposition illness or disease
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  the cause of the pain obviously needs to be addressed.
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  Thereafter the mother points out the pain.
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  No longer serves a useful purpose as it has already done.
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  Its job of alerting, the individual to the concern One
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  could feel that until the underlying cause is fixed.
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  The pain remains as a constant. Reminder, yet it can be both
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  distracting and counterproductive.
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  Thus one should find a way to turn off the pain.
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  After it is. Provided the necessary feedback
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  from the part of the body that is affected.
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  Of course, achieving such an ability to turn off pain,
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  generally require some amount of discipline and self training.
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  Yet, there are individuals who have undertaken, such a step.
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  The philosophical approach of stoicism is very much rooted.
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  In this idea, they're even popular examples of individuals,
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  such as Harry. Houdini the famous escape artist
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  who systematically bathed in ice in order to have custom his body
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  to dealing with. What would ordinarily be.
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  An extremely painful experience many Yogi's and show Women have
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  shown tremendous ability to disassociate from Pain by
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  walking on or sleeping on a bed of nails or walking over hot.
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  Coals Etc. Boxers, learn to deal with the
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  pain of taking blows other individuals.
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  Learn how to accept and distance themselves from various insect
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  or snake bites. We see numerous examples in the
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  world of strategies to Simply do away with the the psychological
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  connection of pain when the body is injured.
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  There are individuals who are known as masochists who indeed
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  take pleasure in painful experience.
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  In this case, however, there is a vital satisfaction.
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  They obtained through what is essentially a perverse calling
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  upon oneself of pain. To try to achieve some vital
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  excitement where satisfaction A disciple one to ask sweet
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  mother. How can one transform pain into
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  a form of pleasure? The mother responded but that's
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  not something to be done. My children, I shall certainly
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  not give you the method. It is a perversion, the first
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  thing and the most indispensable is to nullify the Pain by
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  cutting the connection. You see one becomes conscious of
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  the pain because it is there For example, you have cut your
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  finger. There's a nerve that has been
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  affected and so the nerve quickly goes to tell the brain
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  up there that something has happened, which is wrong here.
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  That is what gives you the pain to awaken your attention to tell
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  you you know there's something wrong.
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  Then the thought immediately feels anxious, what's wrong?
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  Oh how it hurts etcetera, Etc. Then returns to the finger and
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  tries to arrange. What is not yet destroyed?
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  Usually when puts a small bandage but in order not to have
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  the pain, if it hurts very much, you must quite simply cut the
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  connection by thought saying to the nerve.
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  Now remain quiet. You have done your work, you
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  have warned me, you don't need to say anything any longer.
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  Plus I'm stopping you. And when you do it, well, you
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  suffer no longer. It is finished, you stop the
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  pain completely that is the best thing.
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  It is infinitely preferable to telling yourself that it is
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  painful. And quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo in the mother living within the yoga approached, a
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  psychological health and growth, disturbances of the body and
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  physical consciousness. Will discipline endurance Pages
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  88 to 90?