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The Middle

Submitted by gregory hollick on 2021-01-10 17:26

I am finding that for a while my training, no matter the exercise has been focused at my head or hands and then at my feet, (and then when doing @thewalk my attention has been on my legs because I want to work them), but the middle of my body is a blank zone, even when I do squeeze and drag its not quite getting there. I noticed that today as I ran through the steps that there was kind of a void where my attention should be, so this seems like the next step for me to focus on. I know all of the things are important but I think I need to fill in my attention there.

Changes

Submitted by michael young on 2021-01-02 17:20

If you would have asked how confident I was in my progress I would have said that I was really feeling everything was coming together and that i was feeling more comfortable in my body. Then, the week after Thanksgiving, everything shifted all of a sudden. The biggest thing that changed was my comfort level. Now, I have this "up" feeling at the solar plxus that pushes up on my throat. There are times when I suddenly sense what to let go of and it'll just drop away. Then, after some time, it will return and I don't know or can't feel what I need to let go so that it will drop down again.

References

Submitted by gregory hollick on 2021-01-02 07:24

In standing mediation today I am realizing how little my attention is on my torso, specifically my abdominal area. I mean I have a couple things, but I have not been doing that as much lately. I closed horizontally after I checked in with closing on the frontal plane (because that helped in the past to get my alignment back on) and it helped, a lot actually. Then the though came up for me is should I even be doing either of those movements. I mean they helped me but that is part of a different training model.