Controlling Pain

The ability to feel pain varies with each individual. The way we respond to it also varies. Taking drugs to control pain has its own side effects. There is lot of research going on in the area of pain.
It has recently been found that you can control pain by concentrating on the area of brain involved in pain.
Stanford University researchers found seeing brain scans and using mental exercises helped reduce pain. It is not that important according to me what they did in the study, for there are different studies showing various benefits by different mechanisms.
My suggestion , by becoming aware of the pain and trying to have a mental picture of the pain area in your brain and a sort of meditating on it, u will be able to release pain. There are different areas of the brain meant for controlling different functions. Pain is a complex problem and bothering which areas are involved may not be easy for a common man. The best is to take help of meditation. Also relese of endorphins helps reduce pain.
All this suggestion is specifically for chronic pain and wisdom should prevail better. The fact is that this benefit comes only after the brain has been trained for some time. So a disciplined training of brain will help in controlling pain.