BBC online – ‘I chewed off half my tongue’: Why pain is a necessity

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20239836

Give me 5 on this one and I’ll come back with my take on it.

It’s been on my radar and 2 Do List forever. Got bump up much higher in my own coming to terms between blending them on that very important Baseline Reference Line – Pleasure/Pain threshold.

I took an especially important interest in this subject because of seeing ads from the War Amps with kids.

I think it’s a solvable problem. How to do this is simple, yet not so simple. It means staying with the pain and tracing it exactly from it’s origin back into the physical brain. Then understanding from the mind’s perspective because everyone is different various pain formats and thresholds from all possibilities throughout the body and coming up with an understanding of all the differences. A cohesive whole. The trick is to find the right keys (signals if you wish, something akin to musical vibrations) together in solving it. The not so easy task is staying with the pain. In my case, I turn pain into pleasure and the hard part is staying with it in the moment until the path is clearly defined. Not exactly my thing, I have to admit – I’m not a fan of pain and don’t like it’s membership rules. For me it’s clear, turn pain into pleasure as quickly as possible with the minimum of reasonable delay depending on the circumstances of the moment – fine tuning the adjustment of it all.

A lingering question from my time spent in a BDSM Dungeon is the question that follows.

Why is pain such an attractive element in human sexuality? Turn the attraction to pain into pleasure – however extreme. My initial conclusion is that it’s a primal animal instinctive response. Certainly connected and I think it’s related to the quality of the degree pain and it’s management, but it is not the whole answer.

I’ll be back as they say !

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