If you don’t have a marble rolling around nearby, I'm willing to bet you have ten fingers pretty close at hand at all times. Another way of distracting yourself from your pain is by using your fingers. There are a variety of finger exercises. One goes like this.
Place both palms flat against one another with your fingers extended and spread apart from one another. Beginning with your thumbs, bring both thumbs down, dropping one behind the other. Now switch it. If your right thumb was in front of your left, bring your left thumb in front of the right. Do that as fast as you can then repeat the process with your index fingers. Bring both index fingers down, switch their places, and raise them back in place. Repeat the process as fast as you can with each set of fingers. Change the order in which you twitch your fingers. You can go from thumbs to pinkies, pinkies to thumb, or any finger combination you like.
Tapping the tips of my fingers with my thumbs is another exercise I use. This can be done with one or two hands. I typically use two hands because it requires more mental concentration and thereby distracts me more from my pain. With this technique, tap the tip of your thumb to your index finger, then middle finger, ring finger and pinky as fast as you can. Then do it in reverse. Then in any arrangement you choose.
When using two hands, you can do the finger tapping in the same direction, or you can go one direction with your left hand and the opposite direction with the other. For instance, with your left hand, tap from pinky to thumb while going thumb to pinky with your right. Then change it up. Use different finger combinations with each hand at the same time. It sounds easy, but it takes a bit of focus, which is of course the point.
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