From the author: Which of us has not experienced pain in our lives? This is most likely a rhetorical question, because pain is our strict teacher. And not only in childhood, when we play too much. In adult life, pain is often more edifying and calls for change: lifestyle, worldview, attitude towards oneself and the world. “Let us accept pain as truth, we will question everything else.” - John Maxwell Coetzee. In “The Fairytale Key”, in the Song lost Ages, Satprem has an amazing quote that sounds like: “there is something that pierces our lives with pain without a name.” However, it seems possible to me to disassemble the nature of pain, giving it definitions and names that correspond not only to the inner essence, prerequisites and causes of it occurrence, but also to make the names of pain recognizable and distinguishable. For “all the pains of the world”, one way or another, contain the key to unraveling pain - the divine face, locked in a limited cell of unawakened consciousness or, more precisely, the deprivation of divine possibilities of change. To awaken this cell, this divine cell of love in the depths of our being, striving to shed light on the rest of the unenlightened nature is the most important task. However, it is not pain that carries the energy of transformation, since in itself it is only a response, a vibrational conflict, a frequency discrepancy and dissonance of different parts of the multidimensional nature of man. But it is a mechanism that stimulates our attention to awareness of ourselves as a reasonable part of all divine diversity. It’s no secret that pain is something that cannot be ignored or unnoticed for a long time. NATURE OF PAINPain, from the point of view of psychology and medicine, is: a mental, multifactorial state that arises as a result of super-strong or destructive effects on the body when its existence or integrity is threatened; sensory and emotional experience associated with true or potential tissue damage; a type of feeling, a peculiar unpleasant sensation; an affective reaction to a violation of the bodily, functional, mental, personal and individual integrity of a person; a clinical symptom of a violation of the normal course of physiological processes; physical or mental suffering; a protein produced by a mutated version of a gene called SCN9A, which remains open more than normal, named by scientists as a pain gene; many interactions in the synapse area (the place of contact between two nerve cells) - the gate theory of pain. Pain sensations are formed in the central nervous system as a result of the combination of processes that begin in receptor formations embedded in the skin or internal organs , impulses from which along special pathways enter the subcortical systems of the brain, which enter into dynamic interaction with the processes of the cortex of its cerebral hemispheres. Pain is also a nociceptive signal, indicating a violation of homeostasis, the balance of systems or organs, parts of the body, its subtle bodies: etheric , emotional and mental, manifesting itself as a symptom or syndrome. Pain impulses can only be carried by fibers that do not have a myelin sheath, nociceptors or esmyelin fibers or C-fibers. According to the International Association for the Study of Pain, “a distinction must be made between pain and nociception. The term pain refers to a subjective experience that is usually accompanied by nociception, but can also occur without any stimuli. Nociception is a neurophysiological concept that refers to the perception, conduction and central processing of signals about harmful processes or influences. That is, this is a physiological mechanism for transmitting pain, and it does not affect the description of its emotional component. What is important is the fact that the very conduction of pain signals in the nociceptive system is not equivalent to felt pain.” VARIETIES OF PAIN One way or another, pain or nociception are phenomena of the same order, so in the future I will not differentiate between them. Any pain has its own varieties or features,which are determined by the reaction, manifestation and its intensity. Accordingly, pain is distinguished: BY RESPONSE: Somatic - toothache or headache, in the stomach, etc., indicating a violation of homeostasis. Trance or fainting, due to a cut or blow, for example, after an accident - causing numbness or hyperactivity. Shock - an exorbitant level of concentration and excitement when, despite the pain (a person does not notice, does not react to a severe wound or injury), a sense of self-preservation or duty is triggered - warriors, athletes, etc. Expectant - as a reaction to an event that is about to occur. BY MANIFESTATION: Localized - limited to a certain place (localization). Diffuse - around the focus of pathology / disturbance / compression / blocking the function of an organ, vessel, muscle, tissue, etc. Diffuse - spreads throughout the body above and below the waist. Usually a person with such pain describes his condition as “I feel like it hurts everywhere.” Irradiating – localized in places remote from the source of the pathology. BY INTENSITY: Instant, paroxysmal and, accordingly, strong / medium / weak – typical for acute conditions , injuries, toothache or headache, damage to the integrity of the tissue/organ/system. Continuous – tension/increased sensitivity in the area of ​​pain persists for a long time, which indicates an acute or subacute course of the disease and the presence of a focus of inflammation. Pulsating or vascular – either intensifies or subsides , but does not disappear completely and is most often characteristic of headaches. There are also: projected (reflex pain zones of the SDS responsible for pain - the spinal motion segment) and referred pain (these are pain sensations in an area of ​​the body remote from the actual source of pain). One way or another, pain can be considered from the dual characteristics of physical and mental pain. Physical pain is distinguished: BY DURATION: Acute or epicritic (“fast”, “first”, “warning” pain resulting from exposure to irritants of low and medium strength) .Chronic or protopathic pain (“slow”, “painful”, “ancient”, occurs under the influence of strong, “destructive”, “large-scale” stimuli with a duration of 3 to 6 or more months, or which persistently persists beyond that corresponding period of time , during which it should usually be completed). BY LOCALIZATION: Skin pain (damage to the skin or subcutaneous tissues). Somatic pain (localization in ligaments, tendons, joints, bones, blood vessels and nerve endings). It is characterized by dull pain with unclear localization and longer duration than previous pain. For example, joint sprains, bone fractures. Internal or visceral pain (the signal coming from the nociceptors of the internal organs is most often unclear and difficult to diagnose, due to projected and reflected pain, associated primarily with irritation of spinal neurons). Often, as my personal practice testifies, pain in the kidney, heart, liver, stomach is a reflex phenomenon, indicating a reflexogenic origin, i.e. a problem in the spinal axis, which is responsible for a particular organ or system. Phantom pain - in the place where there was a lost limb (arm or leg). With the recognition by official science of the etheric body and its primacy in relation to the densely material or, simply, physiological body (for the etheric body is also physical in nature), this mechanism of pain formation will be better understood. Those who can see the etheric body will be able to appreciate the work of the vital body in transforming lost etheric connections into a new likeness. BY CHARACTER: Neuropathic pain Neuropathic pain occurs as a result of pathological excitation of neurons in the peripheral or central nervous system, which are responsible for the reaction to physical damage to the body (ordinary pain). This pain, better known to us as “neuralgia,” is characterized by various symptoms, individual inin each specific case. This includes numbness, shooting pain, burning, tingling, crawling, etc. The etiology of neuropathic pain can be various factors, including diabetic nerve damage, herpes infection, pain associated with spinal cord injuries, post-stroke pain , discogenic pain (radicular syndrome), as a consequence after surgical operations. Pathological pain Even for readers unfamiliar with medical terminology, the word pathology clearly indicates the presence of a source of problem in the body, which, among other things, is chronic. The presence of such pain is the result of maladaptation of the body, which is based on a disorder of the functions of the central nervous system, as well as mental and emotional disorders. Using the example of this pain, we can trace the fine line between the physical and mental in a person, and realize the close dependence of physical disorders that mask emotional and mental destructive factors. MENTAL NATURE OF MENTAL PAIN. PSYCHOSOMATICS OF PAIN. Psychogenic or psychosomatic pain. The name of this pain speaks for itself. Mental trauma and/or mental disorder underlies psychogenic pain. It can be attributed to mental pain from the point of view of psychology, because psychology is the science of the soul or psyche and mental experiences. Psychogenic pain is based on destructive emotional manifestations of anxiety, fear, anger, irritation, hatred, as an affective reaction, either suppressed or repressed into the subconscious of negative involvement. Headache, sharp or prolonged back pain, spasm in the chest or abdomen most often occur without changes in organs and systems, but as an emotional and physiological reaction. Often in the “history” of psychogenic pain one can find alarming conditions, sluggish and prolonged depression, hypochondria or hysteria, the presence of all kinds of fears that take the form of phobias, ideological or social conflict. “Pain is an integrative function that mobilizes a wide variety of functional systems to protect the body from the effects of a damaging factor.” - P.K. Anokhin, I.V. Orlov. Therefore, most often, a disease is a signal (pain, malaise) to a person that he needs to pay attention to the psycho-emotional causes of its occurrence and restore natural balance. Any disease is an opportunity to get rid of pain that underlies unconscious behavioral patterns, destroying your health. All kinds of emotions of suppression, excessive worry and reaction cause a corresponding defensive reaction of the body, which in turn forms a powerful muscular “corset of tension”, squeezing a person like a shell, reducing overall psychophysical mobility, causing a feeling of tightness, stiffness and reduced “stress resistance” “Under conditions of increasing tension, this “corset” hardens, and when relaxed, it softens. The emergence of zones of constant chronic tension in the body leads to functional disorders of a psychosomatic nature. PSYCHOEMOTIONAL PAINIn his article written three years earlier: How to overcome the pain of separation? I characterized pain from the point of view of internal, mental experience, which is accompanied by all sorts of psychosomatic reactions, so familiar to all of us: self-pity, disappointment, resentment, annoyance: “Pain. How this capacious word can expand to the size of a universe, not someone else’s, not abstract, but your own. To survive PAIN, living through all the emotional and mental anxieties and mental groanings, is sometimes unbearably difficult, as if your entire being is immersed in the hot lava of experiences of a suffocating nature. Sensations at the same time absolutely bodily, to the point of nausea and swelling in the chest, to an incomparable sucking in the pit of the stomach and wild bitterness. At this moment, depressing and aggravating qualities enter the arena of emotional experiences together or one after another, among which are self-pity, feeling annoyance, disappointment, resentment, independing on what caused the pain. Self-pity lowers one’s own self-esteem below the acceptable threshold of self-love and belief in one’s uniqueness and originality. Disappointment appears in the form of a broken trough from the fairy tale “The Old Man and the Fish,” and an angry old woman represents dissatisfaction with the existing moment. Resentment is seen from the inside screen of a person with such a terrifying grimace that it’s time for the soul to burst into tears from the picture he sees.” Both physical and mental pain are almost always suffering for a person. But if for physical pain you can almost always find an effective cure, then, most often, mental pain can only be survive?! THE MASKS HAVE BEEN TORN OFF, THE CHAINS ARE DISPOSED But even in suffering itself there is a mechanism for getting rid of or, at a minimum, alleviating the pain. Suffering from internal contradictions, the impossibility of detachment and torments tearing apart the personality, at the peak of physical or mental pain, you suddenly begin to feel a partial deliverance from all kinds of introduced bodily and personal impurities, being cleansed on the one hand, and increasingly revealing a bright soul, on the other. “The cause of your pain is not the traumas you experienced during your evolution, but the reluctance to come into contact with your pain, the reluctance to experience fear and sadness and cure your pain with forgiveness.” A. L. Jones. Telos. Book 3. Protocols of the Fifth Dimension. If we consider any pain from the perspective of Eastern medicine, then it will not appear to us in such a vague, meaningful and depressing form as described above. In this format, pain is just tension, compression, condensation and concentration of yang -sky (warm) and yin (cool) energy in places where it is blocked. And, accordingly, eliminating pain is getting rid of tension or relaxation, followed by the release of stagnant energy. Here I do not pursue the goal of simplifying the situation associated with the occurrence of pain and its manifestation in the case of serious diseases or conditions. Moreover, I personally eliminated these painful manifestations, both in the case of oncological and postoperative patients, and in other conditions and reactions that require a balanced and knowledgeable approach and practical skill. But at the same time, I do not want to squeeze the pain into the framework of traditional sciences, thereby showing any person that he has the power, in simple but very effective ways, to get rid of not only headaches, dental or any other neurological pain in a non-medicinal way, but also in the case of the psychogenic nature of pain, to find an adequate and effective means of relief. As I indicated earlier, pain is a signal, a beacon that there is a place in the body - physical, etheric, emotional or mental - that requires our close attention. And the first step is not always to get rid of pain at any cost. This is especially fraught in the case of abdominal pain, as well as psychogenic pain, where pharmacotherapy can be destructive. There are cases of taking antidepressant drugs, which, along with the elimination of pain, led to serious pathopsychological and even psychopathological disorders. Visceral pain can often “hide” an acute abdomen, indicating gallstones, kidney stones, peptic ulcers, appendicitis and other life-threatening and health-threatening conditions. In my practice, there was a case when I suddenly became an involuntary witness of how, in one public place, a 13-year-old girl complained to her mother about unpleasant and slightly painful sensations in the umbilical region. After which she was ready to offer her daughter an antispasmodic, something like no-shpa, since she associated it with premenstrual syndrome. The girl’s mother was initially reluctant to respond to my offer to examine the child. Even after the examination, when I was almost 100% convinced of the need for urgent hospitalization, moreover, with calling an ambulance, and not moving them independently, distrust still persisted. Largely due to the fact that the mother and the girl were getting ready to go on a trip. But after the emergency doctor confirmed my fears, and the girlwas promptly and successfully operated on for incipient peritonitis (a complication of acute appendicitis), my mother softened and thanked me on the phone with all sincerity, noting that stereotypes are too dominant, and fears and mistrust are too strong to adequately respond to critical situations in life and help offered by strangers. WAYS TO ELIMINATE PAIN Have any of us experienced pain in our lives? This is most likely a rhetorical question, because pain is our strict teacher. And not only in childhood, when we play too much. In adult life, pain is often more edifying and calls for change: lifestyle, worldview, attitude towards oneself and the world. Pain itself is not terrible when its image is not shrouded in a terrible and frightening aura of something unwanted and inevitable. Moreover, , pain can be gratefully healing, resolving, renewing and transformative. But all this does not mean that pain must be endured. Rather, on the contrary, to adequately respond to its occurrence, preventing the development of chronic processes through one’s own inattention and connivance. Among such effective methods aimed at eliminating pain, relieving it or getting rid of it, three main ones can be identified, which involve physical, psychophysical and mental methods. One of them is - act symptomatically, others eliminate the root cause, others, along with the first two, also restore integrity, restoring health. I will deliberately not dwell on the pharmacological methods that everyone knows about. I will only note that in the case of spinal pain, acute lumbago, which hides the well-known sciatica, sciatica, myositis, drug therapy, for the most part, is ineffective and, moreover, harmful. In particular, this applies to the so-called anti-inflammatory analgesics, the names of which are countless. All these are drugs based on the active substance ibuprofen and its analogues (diclofenac, diclober, nimesil, ketanov and others). And this is not an unfounded statement, but 23 years of experience in the field of manual and reflexology. Not everyone probably knows that mother - nature took care of us in this case, offering willow bark as a natural ibuprofen. Manual (manual) therapy / massage in synthesis with correct movement / gymnastics and, accordingly, immobilization / fixation of individual parts of the spine or joints, along with preventive measures - balneotherapy is always effective, eliminating not only pain and its consequences, but also restoring healthy mobility of the SMS and involved muscles, ligaments, and tissues. For the most part, pain manifestations from the spine in any part of it are a protective reaction of the body, indicating self-cleaning and self-restoration on the one hand, and the turning of our soul to the individual on the other. Often neither the first nor the second “reminder” will have its effect, because modern man is too busy with anything but himself. It is very useful here to quote the words of Yu. M. Orlov, who notes that “in a person, the source of pain may be located outside his body and only express himself through it. Self-knowledge involves knowing your own pain, finding out its nature and sources.” If in the case of back pain, analgesics and antispasmodics are ineffective and undesirable, then in case of dental or neurological pain (for example, migraine), the pain is necessary and important to relieve. And this is where psychophysical methods come in handy, which, however, are also indicated for other pain symptoms and syndromes. PSYCHOPHYSICAL METHODS. PSYCHOTHERAPY OF PAIN These methods of treating pain and related conditions cover a huge layer of knowledge and methods dating back thousands of years of practical research, as well as modern methods, one way or another based on the foundation of ancient sciences. In psychotherapy, the word is of great importance as an integral tool of suggestion and hypnosis , using certain methods to reduce or even turn off pain sensitivity andthe use of inspired analgesia (pain relief). Thus, the following is achieved: 1) an inhibitory effect on certain reflexes (local anesthesia); 2) a decrease in the speed of transmission of signals in the neural circuits of the brain, which leads to a decrease in sensitivity to pain. Among the psychotherapeutic methods aimed at eliminating pain, one can also highlight: The method of comparison or presentation, and the comparison is made in one’s favor, assessing one’s own pain or the state of it accompanying, as insignificant. I remember a personal example from life, when an old trauma played out in earnest, and there was no desire at all to use many self-help tools from the personal arsenal. Then, oddly enough, the book of F. Bacon became a healing remedy, with a page open at random, where something like the following content was indicated: and in the heat of battles, great commanders, lying on stretchers, won them. This motivation worked almost instantly and almost all painful stiffness disappeared immediately, and the internal stimulus activated reserves, using existing knowledge and recovery potential. Retroflection or concentration on pain - is used both in suggestion and in autogenic influence until it dissipates. Anchoring method - use of a positive relaxant/stimulus - music, stroking, distracting from pain. It is usually used in parallel with pharmacotherapy. The method of transferring attention is from kinesthetic pain receptors, for example, of a cutaneous or visceral nature, into visual or auditory images associated with health and relaxation, using the method of self-massage and / or breathing exercises. Here, of course, not all methods, but, one way or another, they duplicate those ancient methods that were used in the schools of initiations, yoga, secret knowledge, but with modern overtones and an emphasis on mental-emotional response. MODERN REFLEXOTHERAPY OF PAINBy modern reflexology I mean, first of all, the work of methods originating in hoary antiquity, which also assimilated modern knowledge about pain, its nature, mechanisms of occurrence and progression. To classical acupuncture, I would add massage techniques, which are based on a structural consideration of the human body as interconnected and an integral system of channels/meridians, large and small centers and the impact of acupressure on BAP (biologically active points). Among them, in my opinion, it is worth highlighting: CHINESE METHODS: Do Ying (Dao Ying) and Qi Nei Tsang, based on reflexology or knowledge of the channels of the body, with the obligatory massage effect on the abdomen. Tui Na healing schools - “push-press” and Jin Lo - meridional massage. An Mo health technique - “press and stroke”. KOREAN TECHNIQUES: Mugunghwa massage (Mallow flower). Su Jok (“su” - hand and “jok” - foot). JAPANESE METHODS: Shiatsu - point pressure . Amma or “calming hands”. YOGIC METHODS OF INDIA AND TIBET: Hora practice. Ayurvedic massage (Ayurveda - “knowledge of life”). Tuina, massage with Tibetan singing bowls. Tibetan-Mongolian traditional massage Daran barih arga. Tibetan massage Ku-Nye. All these methods are based on the principle of sedation or anesthesia. Therefore, any such method professionally used in pain therapy will be effective, especially with regard to pain caused by psycho-emotional stress and psychogenic nature. Of course, there are European schools, for example, Swedish massage, but the continuity of the East is a valuable and undeniable quality. In addition, today the most important synthesis is, for example, the one that was carried out in my author’s technique - TPM - body-psychomanual correction - massage-manual technique and manual-energy practice, which allows me to eliminate almost any pain not only live - offline, but also to do this is online, coordinating the actions of the person being healed using breathing, creating the right postures, self-massage, directed light and other psychotherapeutic 2.