I wanted to share something that I was taught a while ago and it helps me. I get that it won't help everybody and some will think it's not worth the effort, but maybe if it resonates with just one person it may help. Firstly, it only works with nerve pain. It's a visualisation technique that uses your brain power to block the pain signal. It's an effort and you need to practice doing it, but I can testify that you can do it. I need to lie flat in a quiet space and be comfy. I imagine a large thumb (you can imagine something else that gives a similar effect, but a thumb works for me). With your mind, go to the epicentre of your pain - the very worst of it - and try to imagine that you are pressing that thumb down onto that pain. Press hard. It will take a while to connect but when it does you will know it. Like a roadblock, I can feel the pain wriggling under the pressure, trying to get away on it's journey to my brain. My 'mental thumb' is interrupting it and it tries to divert itself along another pathway. I'm able to block it doing this, but it needs an awful lot of concentration to be able to sustain this. However, I find the exercise very empowering. I can't manage more than 20 mins of it but just proving to myself that I can tune in and do it somehow makes me feel better. I was told about this years ago by an osteopath and at the time practiced it on sciatic pain and found I could stop it. I've tried it out again recently and had some success. I'm not suggesting it'll be much of an answer to what we're all experiencing and facing, but somehow just knowing it's possible makes me feel stronger. Hope you don't mind my putting this up for discussion, Maybe somebody else has had experience of this technique?
