How cannabis loosens pain's hook on one's consciousness

alltatup

Active Member
Hey peeps: I'm wondering if anyone cares to discuss how cannabis helps us with the emotional/karmic/spiritual (whatever term you prefer) "therapy" that is (for me) an indispensible part of grappling with pain. Grapple is a good old word: 13th century French meaning a hook for gathering grapes; in the late 1500s meaning is to struggle in close combat; by the 1630s it's used in the more abstract sense of grappling with immaterial issues (very Baroque).

So on this level (emotional, karmic, etc.) pain gets a hook into me, and forces me to pay attention to it. We all know how "attached" our pain is to us; for me, on this cannabis journey I've undertaken, it's become part of the therapy to address the pain on psycho-spiritual-emotional levels. It means I have to address my deepest fears.

I think this process is akin to the process of finding the strains and harvesting times that work best for one's constitution (as I wrote on the PAIN thread). Cannabis has gently guided me in this process; she makes it possible for me to do it. I've written about how the inclusion of CBD into the cannabis medicinal synergy (I personally don't care for the term entourage effect: synergy is so much more efficient) has transformed my life: with the anxiety at an all-time low, I am much more fearless or brave about examining my other grapplings--with that awful world out there (mother nature being my goddess and refuge from all the horrific human stuff going on) and my quest to expand my consciousness.

The goddess cannabis requires of me that I search for healing on many levels; I can't speak for nobody else.
 

alltatup

Active Member
Yes, it is hard work, but I have no other choice. I wouldn't live my life any other way.

Each day, I am more amazed by the healing properties of cannabis on all levels of being.
 

ttystikk

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Speaking personally, I've had the occasional script of opioids after surgery. They've made me feel like shit, and I don't get much pain relief at the doctor recommended dose. I never took higher doses for fear of OD.

If I smoke a bowl instead, while the pain is still there I can ignore it, even forget about it. I can focus on other things, be productive. I'm not so out of touch with my pain that I do dumb things like sit-ups after abdominal surgery but I'm not debilitated and unable to think about anything else.

The exact nature of the biochemical pathways that allow this don't really interest me, as the knowledge that taking a few hits is effective pain relief is enough.
 

alltatup

Active Member
Speaking personally, I've had the occasional script of opioids after surgery. They've made me feel like shit, and I don't get much pain relief at the doctor recommended dose. I never took higher doses for fear of OD.

If I smoke a bowl instead, while the pain is still there I can ignore it, even forget about it. I can focus on other things, be productive. I'm not so out of touch with my pain that I do dumb things like sit-ups after abdominal surgery but I'm not debilitated and unable to think about anything else.

The exact nature of the biochemical pathways that allow this don't really interest me, as the knowledge that taking a few hits is effective pain relief is enough.
I think I know what you mean! I don't always use it for introspection, but some strains and combinations of strains are great for looking inward.

Other times, it's fantastic to get like a bit of a zombie!!!
 

mustbetribbin

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Cannabis's ability to pull ones brain out of shock during a concussion, after stroke, head impact or some other various possible head injuries, that ability to restore function and physically and chemically re-wire our brains, that's one one many miracles that the plant offers.

Cannabis's ability to temporarily make us loose consciousness and block our thoughts out has life saving ability from within it, trust me I almost died from severe sleep loss and brain damage after I RE ruptured a stroke that I didn't know for sure at the time was a stroke (long story). And I lost control of my thoughts and I couldn't watch TV without people's faces slowly deforming as I would watch them and the words , I would hear them but they no longer made sense to me, which was scary and my life and was wishful that someone else could do my thinking for me at times, a very deep scary gloom like impending doom was on top of me, and I'm certain I would have possibly either died or turned into a vegetable if I hadn't used Cannabis to heal.

I had a psychiatrist that was throwing pills at me making me even worse, after 1 1/2 month I knew I was in trouble and Cannabis was the only option left, it was terrifying at first not the normal high that a normal brain receives, after a stroke and during its healing, the highs of marijuana can be more intense, it was more like I left my body kind of high, detached, scary at times on unknown kind bud strains that were new to me. (Scary types of thought came into my head, more like a mushroom trip almost, but more rapid thought wise).

But sure enough I was finally able to get a couple hours of sleep, then 2 days later 4 more hours, 3 days later 3 hours sleep, 2 days later 5 hours sleep, 4 days later 4 1/2 , this was all after going almost 3 months staying awake 4-5 days at a time only to sleep 2-3 hours between.

That zoning out power that Cannabis has that makes you forget your mouth is hanging open, causing drool, that ability that Cannabis has to allow you to temporarily forget everything that is going on that moment, that's the miracle that saved me, that is one of the most dynamic majestic powerful mind healing therapeutic abilities known to exist of the Earth. This is what saved me, this is what finally shut my brain down so that I could heal, that's my story of how Cannabis saved my life.

Nothing else known to mankind can gently shut down a brain that is in shock and unresponsive better that Marijuana can, sure certain stains work better than others, but these life saving strains should be kept in high regard, and considered a gift from God above.
 
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