Alleviating pains and Distraction

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Dr: Noha Abu-Kresha God says what means "So when she heard of their sly talk she sent for them and prepared for them a repast, and gave each of them a knife, and said (to Yusuf): Come forth to them. So when they saw him, they deemed him great, and cut their hands (in amazement), and said: Remote is Allah (from imperfection); this is not a mortal; this is but a noble angel. (12:31) Most scholars are in agreement that prophet Joseph had a matchless smartness and good looking to the extent that a group of women who were invited by The Aziz [ a title given to the king in a certain point of time] on seeing him, they forget that they had knives in their hands and instead of cutting the fruits, the cut their hands, notwithstanding they did not feel that they were cutting their hands. The story may perhaps be unbelievable and inconvincible to the unbelievers but science, through scientific methods and anatomy, has another opinion that is completely compatible with the above mentioned verse. Distraction or diversion how it alleviate pains Changing the concentration of recognition by a certain diversionary is now a fact that science believes in. In this process a person, being affected by a certain diversionary, begins to forget or rather be isolated from his pains. Day dreams and watching TV are cases in point; the first is internal process while the other is external process because of which a person concentration is ultimately distracted and completely begin to be focused on the other diversionary No doubt, as science says, the most effective diversionary that will overwhelms the body is that which distracts hearings, vision, taste, feeling and smell. In an experiment conducted by some researchers in an educational hospital, they exposed some people while being operated on, to fascinating sights in addition to the prescribed medicine and the results were wonderful when compared with the results of some people who didn't receive the additional, so to speak, medicine or changing the concentration of recognition. This study was published in a magazine called "Chest", in which doctors recommends using the additional way to minimize pains besides the prescribed or traditional medicine. BBC site published a research entitles" The return to nature" in which Dr Geel Hopkins says" We have succeeded in alleviating the pains by exposing our patients to some beautiful sights and music , these helped so much in minimizing the effect of the psychological and physical tension."

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By the use of the functional rays of the brain which reflect the sufficiency of blood and food assimilation in the nerve cells, It has been proved that when a person is exposed to whatever can cause concentration distraction, the activity level in some places in the brain is decreased, these places are responsible for receiving the sense of pains such as Hypothalamus , cingulat cyrus, Censory Cortex and Postcentral cyrus. The activity in some places in the brain increases endorphin that opiate pain receptors . study these pictures

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