"The best technique for pain-management does not involve ignoring or fighting the pain, but rather, moving into it. Instead of trying not to think of the pain, or railing your body and mind to fight against it, you have to submit to it. Water is one of the strongest forces on our planet. Its supreme strength resides in the fact that it is completely malleable and therefore unstoppable. When you need an image or way to think of yourself during these attacks, think of yourself, your whole body as water, unresisting, flowing. If you were to choose a traditional image of strength, like a rock for example, this would not be nearly as effective. Anything solid and rigid like a rock presents an ideal surface of resistance for other forces to slam up against, drill through, chip and crack, or, like water, to patiently and enduringly wear a path through. Whenever you resist something, you give it something to fight against, you provide it with the motivation to gather its stength and intensify against you.

"This is where you need to have some practise and control over your breathing, so that you can imagnie such a scenario whilst maintaining deep, even breaths. As you allow the pain to pervade every facet of your senses and as you accept it, welcome it, and begin to observe it, you will also being to realize that 'pain' doesn't have to hurt. As you let the pain take over and saturate every pore of your body, you will begin to recognize 'pain' as just another sensory input - a signal sent from your body to your brain, no more, no less. You will be able to sit there with the 'pain' washing over you in waves, but yet it won't hurt."

I took this text from a book that I am reading that has absolutely nothing to do with BDSM and yet I felt that these passages were dead on track about how to deal with pain. I have tried to absorb pain before when playing and usually when I can do so, and saturate myself into it, is when I reach subspace.