A student describes the unfamiliar experience of no longer feeling the body in the usual way, and asks whether the teacher has encountered something similar.
A student describes the unfamiliar experience of no longer feeling the body in the usual way, and asks whether the teacher has encountered something similar.
I suddenly have a question. Sometimes I feel like I'm losing the body. Have you had a similar feeling before? I don't feel the body the same way I used to.
Yes, it comes and goes. What feels like "the body" dropping away was actually the overlay image of the body. The body itself is just a mystery of intermittent sensations that can never truly make a "body," as such.
It is very weird, because I don't feel like I have a body. It's the first time I've felt this way.
The body as overlay
And in a sense, really, truly, you don't.
It feels really weird. But I'm not too worried. It all feels good. I was just curious whether you'd felt the same way.
Enjoy and explore the weirdness, the wonderful weirdness of experience and sensation.
Yes. Thank you.