Relaxation Beneath Distraction
Relajación bajo la distracción
A student shares how deep distraction during meditation gradually gave way to physical relaxation, and another student begins to explore the tension between creating space in meditation and sensing that something is being repressed.
Relaxation Beneath Distraction
A student shares how deep distraction during meditation gradually gave way to physical relaxation, and another student begins to explore the tension between creating space in meditation and sensing that something is being repressed.
During the meditation, what I experienced was being in the middle of a big distraction, a very big distraction. Then, little by little, I felt my body becoming more relaxed, my spine releasing, and a strong urge to yawn. All that energy came down, and the big distraction subsided. I wanted to share this because of what you were explaining earlier. That experience resonated with me, and I take it as relevant to what was being discussed.
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The edge between openness and repression
Something I've been noticing just very recently, in the last two or three days: when I feel everything that comes up while I'm meditating, it creates a space. But at the same time, I can also sense that I'm repressing something, because