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Originally Posted by Rick61701
All pain is subjective. One persons 8 is another persons 2. Also keep in mind that pain is only what you think it is. Forgive me for putting it this way, but it is the best example.
Some people like to get spanked as a normal part of their "Relations" and they find that enjoyable. While the same people while receiving the same spanking during any other time find it painful. Same thing for one person who enjoys it and another that finds it painful. It's all in the perception of the pain. It's all the same "pain" be "felt" but interpreted differently.
Rick
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From what I learned this is not quite accurate. People who report more subjective pain have more activity in their brain in areas related to pain processing. A higher subjective pain report correlates with more objective findings on FMRI
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/1430684100v1.pdf
People with chronic pain have significant measurable reorgainization of their brains that make them more sensitive to pain, i.e. the same stimulus causes more pain activity in their brain than people without chronic pain for that stimulus.
That said, there are parts of this brain activity that people can learn to reduce with proper training.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/102/51/18626
It's just that not all of the pain in all situations is responsive to this training.