WHEN TO USE: During times of unbearable pain, panic, or overwhelming turmoil.
PURPOSE: The goal is not to escape pain and suffering but to dissolve the notion that you are trapped by it or that it has any objective reality.
MECHANISM: To find out more about how this works, I recommend the following website: ThinkEmotion.com.
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Lie in a comfortable position and relax every part of your body. Commit to lying as still as possible.
- Imagine that any intentions to move are slowly withdrawing from every part of your body.
- Become aware of subtle movement tendencies: Listen to the thoughts and feelings passing through your awareness, and become aware of all the things you are thinking of doing. You might be imagining, even vaguely, that you are somewhere else. You might suddenly want to get up, bored with lying still. You might feel as though you’re juggling many tasks or carrying a burden or bracing against an obstacle. Even these metaphorical actions can create tendencies to move your body. Notice how these thoughts about doing and acting create a subtle sense of movement in your body.
- Imagine that any subtle movement tendencies are leaving your body. Let them drain away completely.
- Continue this process.
- When thoughts of the future arise, recognize the subtle movement tendencies associated with an urge to do something in the future. Recognize that the future is a mental construction. Let the tendencies drain away.
- When thoughts of the past arise, recognize the subtle movement tendencies: bracing, grasping, straining, clinging. Relax and allow the movements to still.
- When thoughts of your surroundings arise, you may experience a range of sensations, as though you are in a cave, trapped, squished, and so on. All of these perceived scenes generate movement tendencies.
“mindjob” Heh!
I love this: “The more confused you are, the better.” Than I’m doing great
Thanks for giving us another way to view love relationships. I struggle a lot like your sociology student did, wanting something tangible, but when I can drop that love just becomes a field we swim in, with no reason to attach to anything. Another lovely post!
-M
Haha, yes, I went with the non-obscene synonym. There seem to be some situations for which profanity says it all just right.
mindfudgesomething that messes with your head a lotstupid thesaurus *!#^@You are the most beautiful person I have ever had the honor to know. thank you for the gifts you give to us all every day.
scott
Aw Scott, thank you, but go look in a mirror. And, can you send me your address again? ;-D
“when I choose to love, that love is divine”
LOVE that. ok, i don’t think in terms of divinity, but i get it.
my emphasis is always on the quality of the love. i had never thought of the moment, that nanosecond of choosing love, as the perfection.