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| Whoaday |
Posted - 03/30/2012 : 11:09:02
I have asked about this many times in the past, so I am not here to rehash but to ask a different question. At current, I sit, on a not so comfortable wooden chair with the tiniest bit of cushion at a University Library. I am in Seminary again getting my Masters of Divinity degree.
As I sit, I have the pains in my piriformis and in my perineum and the rectal pains. I don't get them as bad any more but I have had this since November of 2008. The question is, believing there is conditioning that hard chairs will hurt, how do I challenge it? Do I make myself sit longer. Do I try to do visualization while sitting? I know the logic of ignoring it, but there is something to be said of relaxing into your pain...how do I go about challenging the pain.
It's like a mixture of two sucks. I don't want to be doing school (specially not on a beautiful spring Friday) and I don't like the pain when sitting.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
-Brian
Whoaday |
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| Sarnotic-nerve |
Posted - 03/30/2012 : 19:57:35
I've gotten that type of pain from sitting In half lotus for long meditations. It can feel absolutely unbearable!
I think you should give it some time to "heal" if at all possible. Ignoring the pain isn't the same as fighting TMS.
And anything you do, whether it's visualization or settling in, is giving credit to the TMS and telling your brain that the pain is working!
Once you feel better, then go back to sitting, knowing that it's not going to cause you any harm or pain. But you have to know it! And if it starts to hurt, acknowledge it, kick it out and move on!
The pain is real! The cause...well, that's complicated. ;) |
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