You can do this with flavors or pain sensations by focusing on the feeling. You can also meditate on it then learn to mentally subtract it entirely, realizing that the experience is just an experience mediated in your system. Learn about how the mind flips and reverses and fills in vision from retina.

Try that with an abscessed molar. Some experiences are truly extreme.

“The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.”