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Oh, it's quite easy but that may just be me, it also helps to know when the hard part arrives ;-) (which is at the beginning) This is what I do: 1) Do nothing
by mettamage 8y ago
Oh, it's quite easy but that may just be me, it also helps to know when the hard part arrives ;-) (which is at the beginning)
This is what I do:
1) Do nothing
2) Feel your sensations in the body as your doing nothing. In the beginning I sometimes feel aggitated, I just keep observing the my sensations for a couple of minutes.
3) Close your eyes.
4) Congratulations, you are now limited by your fantasy. Have fun, experiment, make up a story, visualize something.
- Bjartr 8y agoYour step two is mindfulness meditation
- derrida 8y agoMindfulness of body sensation (nama-rupa) is the first foundation of mindfulness in the satipattana sutta. There's 3 more... :) mindfulness of feelings, states of mind and conditioned/causal phenomena
- wool_gather 8y agoPerhaps, but step 4 is definitely not; if you're freely daydreaming you're not developing awareness of the mind's activity.
- mettamage 8y agoWhich is why I explicitly did not refer to mindfulness meditation. I do step 2 in order to set the conditions to perform step 4. If I wouldn't do step 2, then I'd have the issue of being to agitated and then I couldn't make the switch.