Tranquility and the Body's Response
La tranquilidad y la respuesta del cuerpo
A student describes experiencing deep tranquility during practice while simultaneously noticing strong, unpleasant body sensations, and wonders about the connection between the two.
Tranquility and the Body's Response
A student describes experiencing deep tranquility during practice while simultaneously noticing strong, unpleasant body sensations, and wonders about the connection between the two.
Thank you. For me, the practice brought a lot of inner peace, maybe tranquility. A lot of the mental static just lifted. But interestingly, I felt all these body sensations at the same time. Things that were unpleasant: itchiness, little aches here and there. It was so strange to have both at the same time, and it felt like they were almost connected. But as you kept speaking, I kept being brought back to that place of tranquility despite the body sensations.
Beautiful.
The body adjusting to stillness
I think they are connected. It might not be exactly this for you, but as the mind settles and as the mechanism of identification cools off, goes into a more idle mode, there is more aliveness running through the body. The body then needs to adjust, and so you might get itching, tensions, or discomfort. It shifts things in what happens in the body as well. There is more flow, and because the body is not used to that, there is going to be some kind of reaction. But that is just something you don't have to pay attention to. Just let it settle in and work.