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Originally Posted by Chapel 
Also, one that I use from time to time is imagining that I am taking pain from an injury, bring it to my lungs and then breathing it out. It draws focus away from the pain thus reducing it. This exercise is almost entirely psychosomatic. I know this, but I can delude my self enough to believe it does something when I am in pain.
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I have used this a lot over the last year and a half. It works pretty well. Another one is to concentrate just on the pain to the exclusion of all else. Its wierd, but when you do this with the right mind set the pain becomes very bearable.