Do piercings affect the energy flow of the body?

[Tanga]

...Fascinating. I wonder if it could, seriously, be some help to stroke victims etc, as well? Even in dementia, maybe... though can you imagine doctors prescribing tattooing?

Interesting.
I feel however that in such cases, experiencing the tattoo might be far too traumatising on-top-of the existing condition...

...One of the things about fibromyalgia (the condition I happen to know most about) is that the brain learns to feel more pain than usual for the same stimuli... if I remember right, more nerves actually grow - or maybe more pain-receptor brain cells corresponding to the nerves.

(This sends some people into despair, but I decided that if my brain/nerves, let's say bodymind, could physically learn to perceive more pain, then it could be taught to perceive less, and so I'm working with that - with success, so far. )

Hmm. I like that thought!

I have a friend with fibromyalgia. (and hypermobile syndrome).

(I'm also very interested about hypermobility syndrome but can't really make it relevant to this thread. )

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[Tanga]

...Here's an interesting aside about tattoos:
At and around the site, the body becomes more proprio-receptively aware. In essence, the tattooing process has encouraged the body to be "more awake" in that area.
When I read this - I thought (a bit wildly) "Hmm - then I should get a whole arm sleeve on my left arm! Seeing as this is the arm I have less motor control and awareness over, due to my particular version of hypermobility syndrome".

I should add here - that the only reason I would REALLY like my left arm to behave a bit better - is so that it can equal the awesomeness of my right arm in my practice of Kung Fu.

 

[MandMaud]

Interesting.
I feel however that in such cases, experiencing the tattoo might be far too traumatising on-top-of the existing condition...

I imagine it would be, unless diagnosed so early that the patient could understand what it was all about.

You gave me another wondering-idea - unrelated to anything, sparking off as bolts from the blue do(!) - joining this line of thought up with the known phenomenon of acute insult (in the medical sense, ie hurt) to the body being associated with improvement of chronic conditions. I think the way bee stings or nettle stings help arthritis (temporarily) is part of this, though that probably involves the immune system too. But also, when I had a sudden health "" (stroke), my fibromyalgia went away for four months, and lots of nurses and even doctors said it was a known thing, the long-term "background" problem fading out when the dramatic "foreground" thing took centre stage.

That was a nice four months.

Hmm. I like that thought!

I have a friend with fibromyalgia. (and hypermobile syndrome).

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We all need to like that thought! And to decide on living by it! ... Works for me.
(Here comes my best-seller... )

I should add here - that the only reason I would REALLY like my left arm to behave a bit better - is so that it can equal the awesomeness of my right arm in my practice of Kung Fu.

How about using the Kung Fu to frighten the left arm into behaving?

 

[MandMaud]

That last post wasn't entirely off topic, folks! The idea that a shock to the system can be therapeutic... instead of doing harm, it ties in more with what we've been thinking about acupuncture and similar.

 

[Michael Sternbach]

I haven't read the thread, I'm just replying to the question:

Of course they do. Metals are excellent conductors.

 

[Tanga]

...You gave me another wondering-idea - unrelated to anything, sparking off as bolts from the blue do(!) - joining this line of thought up with the known phenomenon of acute insult (in the medical sense, ie hurt) to the body being associated with improvement of chronic conditions. I think the way bee stings or nettle stings help arthritis (temporarily) is part of this, though that probably involves the immune system too. But also, when I had a sudden health "" (stroke), my fibromyalgia went away for four months, and lots of nurses and even doctors said it was a known thing, the long-term "background" problem fading out when the dramatic "foreground" thing took centre stage.

The body is so wonderfully (and annoyingly) mysterious.

How about using the Kung Fu to frighten the left arm into behaving?

It doesn't work in practice. I have to be mindful of injury - which in a hypermobile instance, can happen without awareness... Then I wake up later going oww and wonder WHY.

 

[MandMaud]

It doesn't work in practice. I have to be mindful of injury - which in a hypermobile instance, can happen without awareness... Then I wake up later going oww and wonder WHY.

I was kidding. And I know about hypermobility, what seems a harmless movement can overstretch something and you don't know at the time.

Of course they do. Metals are excellent conductors.

But are you meaning only the electrical and/or magnetic energy flow of the body?