Love: More interesting, though, is the sensation of suppressed shivering. Once my body physically stops shaking, I continue to feel an immense reverberation coursing through my torso and limbs. The vibrations occur at the same 8-10Hz frequency as physical shivering—I imagine the same signals are hitting my nerves, just not hard enough to engage the muscles.
I appreciate the info with each summary! Very insightful.
Reading your description, in hindsight it’s really obvious why I never got anything from mirror meditation. Between dysphoria and faceblindness, as a baseline I’m not seeing anything more than a tool for conveying basic information in the first place. I can hardly induce More non-personness.
You put your back to a wall and do a half-squat until your thighs are roughly flat and your legs form a 90-degree angle. Floor, wall, legs form a square in profile.
I mostly use them to demonstrate that pain is a sensation like any other, something that can be worked with rather than feared and mindlessly avoided.
Fantastic piece!
Love: More interesting, though, is the sensation of suppressed shivering. Once my body physically stops shaking, I continue to feel an immense reverberation coursing through my torso and limbs. The vibrations occur at the same 8-10Hz frequency as physical shivering—I imagine the same signals are hitting my nerves, just not hard enough to engage the muscles.
I appreciate the info with each summary! Very insightful.
Reading your description, in hindsight it’s really obvious why I never got anything from mirror meditation. Between dysphoria and faceblindness, as a baseline I’m not seeing anything more than a tool for conveying basic information in the first place. I can hardly induce More non-personness.
Wall sits are a very reliable way of quickly generating safe pain. I've done them with high school and college students for years with no ill effects.
What's involved in a wall sit?
You put your back to a wall and do a half-squat until your thighs are roughly flat and your legs form a 90-degree angle. Floor, wall, legs form a square in profile.
I mostly use them to demonstrate that pain is a sensation like any other, something that can be worked with rather than feared and mindlessly avoided.
Great piece. It has not been my experience (https://www.mattball.org/2023/06/enlightenment-june-2023-emptiness-and.html) that it is just a question of putting in the time.
Thanks for sharing your tips. Good luck.
Fabulous!
Great article, speaking from your own experience and sharing practical insights. Thanks for your candour.
This is wonderful. Despite meditating for years I have never heard of Fire Kasina. Thank you for writing