I strongly believe there are many ways to respond to difficult sensory inputs, that we can learn new responses, and people like David Goggins exemplify some of this, but there are even more extreme examples, such as self-immolation by Buddhist monks.
I learned a first step on the path in myself, in a very trivial way, by watching my cats go out into the rain. They completely ignored it. So I tried that, instead of hunching up when I went out into the rain. And the suffering - in response to the same sensory input - immediately went away. This turned out to generalise to some of the inputs during workouts, although... (read more)
I strongly believe there are many ways to respond to difficult sensory inputs, that we can learn new responses, and people like David Goggins exemplify some of this, but there are even more extreme examples, such as self-immolation by Buddhist monks.
I learned a first step on the path in myself, in a very trivial way, by watching my cats go out into the rain. They completely ignored it. So I tried that, instead of hunching up when I went out into the rain. And the suffering - in response to the same sensory input - immediately went away. This turned out to generalise to some of the inputs during workouts, although... (read more)