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Our body is under direct control of mind. We can restrict pain sensitivity by dissociating our mind from the body and focusing it upon some neutral thing e.g.. reading, chanting of mantra, jaap, meditating etc.
When you are in pain, you should connect your mind with good books, listen to devotional songs and discourses and contemplate on the same. Then the physical pain has no effect on the mind. During these times the immediate benefit of keeping the mental line busy is that you do not have to receive the complaining calls of the body. In the telephone line you get to see the missed call, but don't you return the call only if it was important !
When someone looks at us to start a conversation and we are not inclined to talk to him don't we get 'engrossed' in conversation with someone else ? When we don't want to work, don't we pretend to be asleep although we are awake ? Remember that to give us misery is in the hands of the karma, but whether to give importance to the misery or not is in our hands.
A remedy for pain or grief is the passage of time. As days pass, the pain doesn't go away, but is forgotten. A person who has lost his dear one would always miss him/her, yet as the days pass by, the loss and vacuum remains merely in the house, it does not remain in the mind. For the same reason, with the passage of time, although the loss is permanent, as you stop thinking about it, the loss does not remain so painful.
In the scriptures also, this is the remedy shown to forget your misery. If you want to forget your misery stop thinking about it again and again. Similarly, if your mind does not register the presence of miseries they get forgotten.
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