Yes, there’s a technique that you can use to get amused easily as well as lessen pains (of any sort) but of course, it is a very difficult technique and it has a high tendency to make you change your character and render you somewhat at a low later on (I’ll explain why it makes you low at the end of this post).
The reason why I said that it is very difficult is that it deals with both your mind and your emotions. This technique that will be disclosed soon is an expression of the saying, “Mind Over Matter” (incidentally, if your mother is one that always nag you about getting over bad habits and use that saying, just notice how it abbreviates and you’ll remember this technique even more).
Though it is nothing new, here’s the technique:
To Get Easily Amused : -
- Lower Your Expectations – in fact, it is best not to expect anything , which is potentially dangerous because it melts your awareness to real physical dangers.
- Avoid Unnecessary Anticipation – do not try to guess what is going to happen in a movie that you are watching, even if you guessed it right, always be prepared to be amused by getting the guesses right or well, if the movie makers are good enough, they’ll catch you off your thoughts.
- Double Your Reactions Towards Something – if you are one that only chuckle and giggle at comedies, it is time to laugh heartily … not just an “lol’ or an “lols!” more like a “LOL!!!” or “HAHAHHAHA!!!” . This is also potentially dangerous due to the fact that if it is a feeling of fear, you might have double that and make it a phobia.
Lessening pain is the exact opposite of the above except for the last doubling technique : -
- Heighten Your Expectations – people in general have two types of experiences when they encounter something, perceived and imagined. Perceived is really feeling the physical pain for lets say, falling knee first onto a tar road, while imagined is as it says, imagination. So then what you do to lessen pain is to imagine the worst pain you can think of (imagine) before you even face your immediate “pain antecedent”. Example: before getting an injection, don’t think of an ant bite, think of it as a snake bite! Of course there are potential dangers; one of which is that sooner or later, you will deaden your senses and feel no pain at all and secondly, if you cannot control this properly, the imagined pain might just haunt your mind – a confusion of the real and fantasy.
- Anticipate Pain – Using the same principle as the above, you always need to anticipate anything that can hurt you and experience it with your imagination first before -if ever – facing the real thing. Danger is the same as the above.
- Double Your Reaction Towards Something – Again this is an emotional aspect; you need to magnify your perceived experience. Realize that when someone who is scared of sitting in a roller coaster screams, they don’t feel as much terrified as if they just sit there and shut up – just ask them, all they remember clearly is screaming. I haven’t really thought about the dangers of this yet though, just that if it is an injection, warn the injector that you’re going to scream, if not you wouldn’t know where the injection’s needle is going to land.
So then, why does it make you feel somewhat low? That is because when you try these techniques, you are actually changing your mindset towards your known logical thinking. You might feel slightly depressed because you don’t feel the way you initially think that you should. Remember that it takes some time before your conscious thinking actually sinks into your subconscious, which usually contains your thought patterns. But then again , after a while, you will justify why you’re using these techniques to yourself (I’m expecting pain because it will make me feel less pain later on) and it gets integrated in the way you think, so much so that it reaches your subconscious self.
All in all, if you can’t do all that, the best way is to always keep a still and calm mind.
