Can someone tell me that when these buddhist monks can withstand extreme pain, is it because they have destroyed their nociceptors? How else can they do it? EG: youtube.com
Can someone tell me that when these buddhist monks can withstand extreme pain...
Luis Murphy
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Luke Ramirez
A lot of it is due to dampening nerve receptors, but also due to callusing and thickening of the skin. These guys only harden one part of the body, usually the fists or shins. So they punch and kick rocks until they get calluses, and it doesn’t hurt anymore.
Joseph Green
Meditation works. Reguardless of what you think or feel about the subject, there are scientific studies that have shown its benefits many times over. Its to the point that if there was a study showing meditation does nothing, that would be extraordinary news. Meditation is essentially the process of your consious mind learning to tune out all sensory input and focus on its own existence over all else. One of the effects of meditation is increased pain tolerance. Its not hard to believe that someone who practices meditation every day all day for 50 years could set themselves on fire with no visible pain reaction.
Nolan Gomez
How do you explain ?
You can't toughen up the entire body.
Cameron Roberts
Water alcohol mixture. It's what they do for stage/dance fires as well. A gasoline fire would simply destroy that man's skin.
James Morris
He burned to death faggot. You cant tell me it wasnt painful because of what he used to burn himself.
Julian Perry
Wrong. It is documented that he used petrol.
Lincoln Myers
at the end of the day the perception of pain is a conscious event, so I suppose if you're hardcore enough you can just ignore it. Plus at the point when your entire body is engulfed in flames, the pain sensation probably reaches a saturation point, kind of like how inflicting pain on one part of your body can alleviate pain from an actual injury, and then some time later all the nociceptors are destroyed by the fire anyway.
Elijah Foster
Nah he just went into shock
Ian White
These guys just sit still 4+ hours a day contemplating the dangers of wgat they do and psych themselves up for it. Its really remarkable that they can not just ignore the pain, but embrace it. Its really 50% physical training and 50% mental preparation.