discuss, i have done all kinds of mind-body techniques, relaxation, stress reduction exercise, yoga, biofeedback, all of these things and i too am a little different way, the person of faith i also speak to my pain, but i can tell you i'm still left with severe pain and it's only on the left side of my body. i was had by a car of my right side. i only have paint on the left side of my body. so by your experience is very real, mine is very real as is all of these others. we really can't expect to understand pain we are not researching that and spend 96 -- the nih says 96% less than it does on diabetes, heart disease and cancer. had we understand how these mechanisms? is genetic evidence that people are predisposed to develop either heightened or less pain. there are studies and documentation of people who are born without the ability to sense pain at all. which is not to their advantage because the end up injuring themselves. but this is evidence that there's a genetic component there. also evidence that pain is actually a dysfunction of the pan something network in our body itself. it can be a d