Irv Finkleman wrote:
One way to beat this is to tune with low power and touch the
rig. Every few days increase the power until you have built up
a tolerance to the RF tingle.

You could also try this with the household power, starting at
2 or three volts, and increasing it gradually over time until
you build up your immunity to electric shock as well.

Irv VE6BP :-)

I tried this approach several years ago...got up to about half a kilovolt...

but my wife complained that my glow was keeping her up at night.