i think to a certain extent it really is, because you can decide how much to let you bother by it, except of course you are directly affected, like somebody is disturbing you in a not nice way all the time or somethin like that.... then it gets a bit more complicated.
but even then, i think you do have the power to make a difference and do what you think is right and act like with the idea of trusting in yourself and think positively....
however it appears that the influence of like these corruptions or what we wanna call em, can hinder you from doing things the way you want to do them... i don't know some people get easily confused and then they aren't very centered and will just accept everything that's told to them... then they will be acting not out of their own will, but out of something that they
think is their will and that's a problem...
i don't want to say, that you can make everything disappear like that just with your awareness or somthin like that, though i don't really know ... well it's more like that awareness indeed appears to be an influence in this subjective perception of your environments and yourself, obviously... and therefore changing awareness can change your perception of things and the context that you put everything in, that might be negative...
of course the world around you or your environment might be negative, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you have to be, or your perspective on this environment. it's just more likely that it's like that, and that's why most often that's the case for such circumstances.
so what i wanna say is that maybe broadening your awareness could bring you other things to look at and then you don't have to look at the things that have constantly been dragging you down the way you had looked at them before, maybe in a negative way ....
so maybe distraction can be a key if you're stuck in such a situation or so, and maybe it is a bit connected to the term of broadening awareness too.
anyways my opinion is that society is often sick these days, so the feelings you are sensing might be your true feeling about it. it could be that you are telling yourself in your mind something wrong about these feelings instead of truly listening to it though, because of fearing something... but i don't know.
anyways i mean really mankind has gotten far away from it's nature... or at least that's my impression and hence feelings of separation or weirdness can be explained as a natural reaction to the altered types of environment in a negative way???
just speculating though...
i hope i did make
some sense and you get my point...
i don't know the sickness... it's a bad sickness and for many people i see it that they lose their enjoyment of life day by day constantly.... i think this is actually a big threat for humanity and peace and stuff, though i can't really describe it specifically, because it's more like a general feeling i have of all this...
ok enough for now!!...
peace :weedman:
edit p.s. : sorry i didn't really answer to your question with the pain in the leg. yes you can, but you'd need an extraordinary good control over your mind and body, obviously.
i think veeeeeery few people can do that, though it's often like people with a broken leg or somethin get drugged by their brain not letting them feel the pain, however i don't know how it works and when this effect occurs..
p.s. 2: ok one more...
you said you felt distant to events and reality seems unreal.... i think i know that feeling very well... i had it, and have it still sometimes and i think it is something like trapped life energy or so in yourself.... or maybe a suppressed thought that makes you unhappy, but you don't know about it, because it's like in your unconsciousness...
like you need to resolve something in your mind and get clear with it or simply accept it in a way...
it's hard to tell really, yet this is what is my thoughts and bits of conclusions about maybe a similar experience to yours.
in other words, it might be thoughts that reflect unhappiness about yourself, but then the key would be to find out, why you are unhappy and find a way to the happiness and a clear mind.
also maybe just accepting unhappiness might accelerate this, instead of fighting or resisting it, if you know what i mean....