Mindfulness Healed My Mosquito Bite

[Anirban657]

OMG.. This is something miraculous guys.. I have been doing mindfulness with labelling for the past 2 days as much as possible and I just sat here and a mosquito bit me and I was just mindful of that mosquito bite but then the mosquito was not at all going away. It was there. I did not do anything. I just felt into the bite sensation. And then the sensation was gone and the mosquito was gone and there was no pain or irritation. What was that?

[Heart of Space]

You can't necessarily attribute that result to mindfulness.  At best there was an anti-inflammatory response from decreasing your stress hormones and that reduced swelling.  Mindfulness is not magic, but it is pretty useful.  

[Prabhaker]

3 hours ago, Anirban657 said:

 the sensation was gone and the mosquito was gone and there was no pain or irritation. What was that? / This is something miraculous guys

That's how an Indian mind works! May be something was wrong with the mosquito! If it happens every time a mosquito bites, than it can be considered as a miracle, not before that.

[Loreena]

Mindfulness is more about the mind than physical sensations. The experience you're having has been attributed to distraction therapy in medical case studies where a patient is distracted with TV or ambient music or concentration methods before being given painful injections and they found that patients reported less pain .

Hypnosis has been used many times during surgeries to make them painless without the use of anaesthetics. 

During mindfulness, the mind is less attached and hence the sensation is not felt deeply. 

However the real benefit of mindfulness actually lies in taming of the monkey mind and reducing its transgressions.

Mindfulness also helps to stay in the moment and increases self awareness. 

 

 

[Anirban657]

On 7/14/2017 at 8:08 AM, Prabhaker said:

That's how an Indian mind works! May be something was wrong with the mosquito! If it happens every time a mosquito bites, than it can be considered as a miracle, not before that.

Once a butterfly did the same?

Edited July 15, 2017 by Anirban657

[Shanmugam]

On 7/14/2017 at 4:34 AM, Anirban657 said:

OMG.. This is something miraculous guys.. I have been doing mindfulness with labelling for the past 2 days as much as possible and I just sat here and a mosquito bit me and I was just mindful of that mosquito bite but then the mosquito was not at all going away. It was there. I did not do anything. I just felt into the bite sensation. And then the sensation was gone and the mosquito was gone and there was no pain or irritation. What was that?

It is true that mindfulness improves the tolerance of pain to some extent : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3580050/

There is no miracle in it.

Let us see what Buddha says about pain:

"When touched with a feeling of pain, the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person sorrows, grieves, & laments, beats his breast, becomes distraught. So he feels two pains, physical & mental. Just as if they were to shoot a man with an arrow and, right afterward, were to shoot him with another one, so that he would feel the pains of two arrows; in the same way, when touched with a feeling of pain, the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person sorrows, grieves, & laments, beats his breast, becomes distraught. So he feels two pains, physical & mental.

Now, the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones, when touched with a feeling of pain, does not sorrow, grieve, or lament, does not beat his breast or become distraught. So he feels one pain: physical, but not mental. Just as if they were to shoot a man with an arrow and, right afterward, did not shoot him with another one, so that he would feel the pain of only one arrow. In the same way, when touched with a feeling of pain, the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones does not sorrow, grieve, or lament, does not beat his breast or become distraught. He feels one pain: physical, but not mental."

-  Sallatha Sutta

[pluto]

I remember once i had a sore shoulder for months and one night i found this video titled how to communicate with your cells or something, long story short i got into deep meditative state before sleep, i then communicated and directed my cells to heal that location overnight with pure belief and without any doubt. Next morning that shoulder... pain was gone. Haven't felt any pain there since its been about 5 years.

I wasn't able to do it again but then again i was deep into spirituality and meditation at those times so i could enter much deeper states easier since i had had a spiritual awakening and around that time and ego was hardly present so i could tap into my superconscious mind and have greater connection to source more effortlessly.