Day166

[DealingWithDistraction] 15mins

At the beginning of the session, I felt a mild headache when doing the body scan, but during the session, it felt less and less present. At the end of the meditation, I couldn’t find it any longer. 
Today I was able to focus easily during the session. I had the feeling that I was underwater when I was in intense focus. I felt my senses, especially hearing, was covered up or muffled, so that I could hear my thoughts better. Or is that the sense of clarity Andy talked about in his book? Maybe I associate the focus with anything to do with water because in the book, Andy uses the metaphor of ripples in a deep and clear pool to describe thoughts in the mind. 
Another thing I noticed today was that every breath I took was kind of different. Although I have been instructed to examine my breath carefully that there should be minute variation about them, I never really found them to be anything but identical. I don’t believe my breath were different starting today. I think I am finally sensitive enough or clear-minded enough to notice the differences. There were different intensities, different locations, different timings of my breath. It’s pretty incredible that I could not have noticed all these with something I literally been doing every moment for the past 32 years.

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