Okay okay, I want to be better at enduring pain, cause I got in the Fight club. (Woops)
I get the systematic part. But some have said, that it might acctually backfire. That systematical pain resistance training might acctually make you less endurant to it.
And Tenne, sometimes thats just not possible. Thou that is good advice, I give you that.
And out of curiosity, what would be the best way to expose myself to it, without ending up in the hospitalo?
I was merely joking, I know it's not always possible but from my understanding, the brain does a lot to stop pain in itself, but it only really works for major injuries. Speaking from personal experience, when I was knocked down, I felt no pain what-so-ever, apparently this is because the brain, want of a better explanation, just says "You need to sort this out before you start thinking about pain" and blocks the synapses from receiving the pain signals. I'm not brain scientist of course, but there was a programme on recently that went through how our bodies deal with pain.
That's extreme pain, but I would assume that if you're looking for minor injuries, such as being hit, no broken bones, maybe broken skin, I would assume you want to do something like what Christo said, although that seems very masochistic. :S I don't think you want to start getting someone to hit you, but I think it has a lot to do with mind over matter, sure you might be bleeding, but is it really that bad? It'll heal so why not just strap it up and get on with it. Then again it would depend on the situation, if you stub your toe at home, you have more options than you would if you were mid bar fight.
Also, from what I understand, we have more nerves in our hands, feet, mouth and neck/jaw area so I would avoid having those places hurt over your chest for example.
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Anyway, I'm out of my knowledge zone, all I know is that pain is bad and that if I really cared about what was happening, I would just force myself to think about other things than the pain.
Edit: I state that I don't like pain, hence my original comment. I still stick to that method.
I would also add a "risk vs reward" factor, yes, I'm hurt, but if I fight through it, what do I get? Adrenaline would be another factor and a major one for me personally is certainly a "will I let anyone else down", so if people are relying on me, the feeling of shame having stopped I suppose.