Ego types include survival, daring, caring, self-controlling, possessive, grandiose, wounded, victim and spiritual.

Sadism is the consensual infliction of physical or emotional pain while cruelty is to make people suffer for an ulterior goal.

The runner’s high is an example of endorphin rush, but it is unclear if it is caused by endorphins or endocannabinoids.

Personal power is to have the mental fortitude to live with meaning and happiness.

Dominance-submission frees ourselves from the psychological pressure of pride and shame.

Controversial issues in BDSM include sexual predators, consent, choking, drugs, mental problems and domestic discipline.

A writer’s Way of the Warrior has intellectual honesty, self-reliance, humility, courage, restrain and personal power.

Mind-fucking in BDSM presents unique challenges to avoid breaking consent, trauma, and inducing learned helplessness.

In BDSM, mind-fucking are mental games that produce defeat and surrender in the submissive.

Denial of free will is based on religious or mystical ideas and can have dire consequences by making it ethical to control the mind.

A survey of sadists reveals that they inflict pain to achieve pleasure, connection and intimacy.

Pain is a sensation that is not always unpleasant, while suffering is a state of being based on emotions, values and meaning.

The ego appears when shame and pride take over our consciousness and fill it with cravings.

Masochists enjoy pain by itself and to achieve sub space, focus, catharsis, empowerment, orgasms, vulnerability and intimacy.

Neuroscience explains consciousness as hierarchical properties of the mind.

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