Andalusite
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Warmup makes a huge difference! I can take a caning that leaves welts for a week, and bruises for almost two, but a simple hand spanking that goes just ahead of my pain tolerance can easily make me so sensitive that I'll cry if he barely touches me! If I wear my hood while the top/dom is setting things up, the sensory overload sends me into a light/medium level of subspace when it comes off, and I can take more right from the start. Breathing techniques can really help - it's not exactly like Lamaze, but timing the breaths, and breathing deeper, can really help with processing. So can energy/Chi/whatever you want to call it work. I don't think of it as spiritual, religious, or magical, more that it has to do with the EMF produced by the electricity running down our nerves. Either way, I can use it to process a lot more pain than I can without it. Try using tools that let you hit hard, but that won't hurt her, especially in warmup. Bunny flogger, a pillow, I have a flogger made of hair extensions - all of them let you feel like you're really whalloping her, but with minimal pain. I can take thud much more easily than most forms of sting pain. I can handle sting once I'm really warmed up, or if it is very light, or mixed with thud. Try some double-handed or switching off play, or working with other implements. Watch for her to be moving into the swing and making happy noises - if she isn't, back off until she does, then gradually escalate. You can also gag her so she isn't as noisy, and give her keys or something to use as a "safe" instead. D/s interactions can make a big difference, too - until I was with my last Dom, I only wanted yummy/fun pain, not stuff that I processed as actually hurting. With him, I was willing and able to stretch my tolerance a lot more. I personally can take a lot more pain than when I first started bottoming, and I have had a submissive and a couple of other partners whose pain tolerance increased over time as well.
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