“There is some pain in the body. Do one thing: forget about the body. Concentrate on the part of the body where the pain is.
Then you will notice something strange. When you concentrate on the part where the pain is, that part becomes smaller. At first you may feel the pain in the whole leg. When you concentrate, you will see that it is not in the whole leg; it is only in the knee.
Keep concentrating and you will realize that it is not in the whole knee, but only in one point. Now concentrate on that point. Forget about the rest of the body. Close your eyes and continue to concentrate. The area of pain will become smaller and smaller.
Then there will come a moment when it becomes just a tiny dot. Keep concentrating on the dot—and suddenly it disappears, and you are filled with bliss.
Why does this happen? Because you and your body are two different things. The one who concentrates is you; the body is the object. When you concentrate, distance is created. Identification is destroyed.
You are no longer experiencing pain—you are observing it. This shift from experiencing to observing creates distance. And when the distance becomes great enough, the body is forgotten altogether, and only awareness remains.”
— Excerpt adapted from Osho, And Now, And Here, Talk #12.
Modern physics has discovered that the observer’s attitude changes the behavior of elementary particles, causing them to behave differently.
It seems that something similar happens when we direct our attention toward pain in the body—which, on a micro level, is composed of those very same elementary particles.
That is why I would like to offer a simple suggestion: when pain arises, try this method. Test it in direct experience.
In my experience, it works.
Attention that is free of resistance can indeed work wonders.
