Yes, I know, the title threw you, did it not? Why would I want to delib­er­ately hurt my most priced pos­ses­sion? There is a good reason. I am writ­ing this art­icle to expand on a point my slave recently made on her journal about some­thing the BDSM com­munity calls sub­space. Many treat sub­space as some­thing mys­ter­i­ous and it took me a long time to under­stand what it pos­sibly could refer to myself. I am now con­vinced that it is a physiolo­gical state you can put your slave’s body in, if you learn to care­fully stim­u­late her.

Pain

Pain itself is a very com­plex topic. It has been researched for dec­ades and while we under­stand fully how pain recept­ors and chem­ic­als involved work, we still do not quite under­stand how pain inter­acts with our body. To get a good under­stand­ing on the basics of Pain I would sug­gest you go and read the art­icle pub­lished by the National Insti­tute Of Neur­o­lo­gical Dis­orders And Stroke.
The most basic dis­tinc­tion you can pos­sible make are two kinds of pain:

• chronic pain
• acute pain

We are not inter­ested in chronic pain, as we will go with the med­ical defin­i­tion of it. What are you inter­ested in is the effects of acute pain and most of the time that will be due to a trauma inflic­ted on your slave’s body or muscle pain due to pro­longed use or binding.

Smart Mother Nature, Smart…

Evol­u­tion has come up with vari­ous ways to deal with dif­fer­ent types of pain. How­ever there is one group of bio­chem­ic­als we are most inter­ested in, they are called endorphines. Plural, because there is more than one type of endorphins, there are three to be exact:

• α-endorphins (alpha)
• β-endorphins (beta)
• γ-endorphins (gamma)

We will focus on only one type of endorphin, which is the β-endorphins because they are believed to be the most potent of them all and the symp­toms exhib­ited by a slave in sub­space are very sim­ilar to what β-endorphins are sup­posed to do for your body.

Where Do I Buy Those

β-endorphins is pro­duced by your pitu­it­ary gland also called the hypo­physis. To be pre­cise, so that you may impress your slave, the Aden­o­hypo­physis or Anterior pitu­it­ary is respons­ible for actu­ally con­jur­ing up this chem­ical cock­tail.
Unfor­tu­nately it is not as easy as walk­ing up to the Aden­o­hypo­physis and order­ing a tall glass of β-endorphins, in order to get any­thing from that fel­low you have to talk to its bar­keeper boss, which hap­pens to be the hypo­thal­amus.

How…How…

To con­vince your hypo­thal­amus that you are old enough to have a β-endorphins cock­tail you will need to endure pain. Acute pain is a sure trig­ger to get the hypo­thal­amus’ atten­tion.
β-endorphins are very potent, research has shown that it pro­duces a greater sense of exhil­ar­a­tion, or “high”, than all of the other endorphin types. Also often said to have an opi­ate effect on the body, β-endorphins is gen­er­ally believed to provide sub­stan­tial nat­ural pain relief.
What strikes me most is the “opi­ate effect” because it reflects a beha­viour I have often wit­nessed with my slave. She describes it as “float­ing” whereas to me it comes across as the kind of beha­viour I would expect from someone under the influ­ence of morphine or any other opi­ate. Her speech espe­cially reflects that and also the fact that she is very amen­able to sug­ges­tions while in that state.

Con­clu­sion

I do not wish to draw con­clu­sions on how we can con­vince the body to actu­ally cre­ate and dis­trib­ute β-endorphins dur­ing play, but I know that these bio-chemicals are able to cre­ate an arti­fi­cial state of well-being after a very stress­ful exper­i­ence for you slave’s body. Even though β-endorphins do not show the same addit­ive effect opi­ates have, I would not advise you to always aim for put­ting your slave into sub­space. As much as it seems to be a bliss­ful exper­i­ence, the total loss of con­trol can also be per­ceived a fright­en­ing. Due to the effects of above men­tioned, nat­ural chem­ic­als, your slave will be very help­ful while in sub­space, ensure that you are the pro­tec­tion she needs as she exper­i­ences her jour­ney through that space.