Stigmata on my skin

K. is a subscriber to my website La Férule, laferule.com. Here's what he did with it...

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One evening in July, I decided to carry out the "Sou-riz-ez" task on the Malendrier.

Preamble :
- Concerning the duration of the task, I decided to make a small modification by not staying for 10 minutes, but for a randomly chosen duration between 15 and 30 minutes so as not to know the remaining time. If it had been 10 minutes, I could have guessed the remaining time.
- To make sure I didn't relieve the pain in my knees during this task, I tied my hands behind my back.

To perform this task, I started by placing a handful of rice on a towel so that I could retrieve the rice more easily afterwards. Then I knelt on the rice. Immediately afterwards, I activated a random timer between 15 and 30 minutes and turned the phone upside down to make sure I didn't see the duration. Immediately afterwards, I tied my hands with the belt of my bathrobe. From the very first seconds, I could feel the grains of rice penetrating the skin of my knees, accentuating the sensation of pain with each passing second.
After a few minutes, I noticed that I felt less and less pain, as if my skin had been anesthetized. Curiously, the hardest part wasn't resisting the pain of the rice grains, but simply balancing on my knees without knowing how much time I had left.
At first, I thought it was a task that would work on my pain resistance, but in the end, it tested my mind and my impatience. Towards the end of the task, I became increasingly impatient and that's when I started to move my knees. At that point, I felt the pain again as I rested my knees, and the pain was more intense than at the start.
It was after 19 minutes that my phone began to vibrate, indicating the end of the task. When I got up, I could see the stigmata on my skin and was surprised to see the depth of the marks left by the grains of rice.

In conclusion, this task turned out to be more of a test of my mental strength and impatience than of my resistance to pain. It made me realize that resisting pain without knowing how much time is left is more difficult. In addition, this task showed me that I need to work on my mental and impatience skills to improve for future tasks.

Thank you, Madame Lule.

Thanks, K!

Photo by ArthK.