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You touched on something meditators (buddha, lao tzu, etc) were talking about:

The brain detects a plausibly threatening sensation and generates mild pain

1. We become afraid this pain signals tissue damage (often due to prior experience or general anxiety)
2. This fear directly increases the brain's threat assessment and attention to the sensations
3. The brain produces more pain as a protective response

-->Increased pain confirms our fear, amplifying it and repeating the cycle

Unwinding this process completely all around within your entire body and mind these figure... (read more)