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Do you feel in your chest?
    #18748434 - 08/23/13 06:40 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

I meditate.
A lot of times I feel great feelings on my forehead and at the base of my spine.

Reading some material by Ram Dass and he constantly refers to what I perceive as these feelings but in the chest area.

He has techniques that he claims work to open up the heart so to speak, but I have a hard time adjusting my meditation practice to follow his technique.

So my question is, when you are watching yourself and you feel sensations, where do you typically feel them?

Do you have a technique that works for you to feel from the chest?


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Re: Do you feel in your chest? [Re: cez]
    #18748479 - 08/23/13 06:54 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)



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Re: Do you feel in your chest? [Re: cez]
    #18748487 - 08/23/13 06:56 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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cez said:
I meditate.
A lot of times I feel great feelings on my forehead and at the base of my spine.

Reading some material by Ram Dass and he constantly refers to what I perceive as these feelings but in the chest area.

He has techniques that he claims work to open up the heart so to speak, but I have a hard time adjusting my meditation practice to follow his technique.

So my question is, when you are watching yourself and you feel sensations, where do you typically feel them?

Do you have a technique that works for you to feel from the chest?




Breathe in deeply and slowly breathe out deeply and slowly.  If your chest starts to flutter slow things down never let your mind get ahead of your heart.



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Re: Do you feel in your chest? [Re: LunarEclipse]
    #18750247 - 08/24/13 05:32 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

not to follow bodily sensations during meditation


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Re: Do you feel in your chest? [Re: cez]
    #18751826 - 08/24/13 02:33 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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cez said:
I meditate.
A lot of times I feel great feelings on my forehead and at the base of my spine.

Reading some material by Ram Dass and he constantly refers to what I perceive as these feelings but in the chest area.

He has techniques that he claims work to open up the heart so to speak, but I have a hard time adjusting my meditation practice to follow his technique.

So my question is, when you are watching yourself and you feel sensations, where do you typically feel them?

Do you have a technique that works for you to feel from the chest?




Practice metta!


Contemporary instruction for the cultivation of loving-kindness – such as is found in the works of Sharon Salzberg,[11] the Triratna Buddhist Community's Kamalashila,[5] and Matthieu Ricard[12] – is often based in part on a method found in Buddhaghosa's 5th-century CE Pāli exegetical text, the Path to Purification (Pali:Visuddhimagga), Chapter IX.[13][14] This traditional approach is best known for identifying successive stages of meditation during which one progressively cultivates loving-kindness towards:

1.oneself
2.a good friend
3.a "neutral" person
4.a difficult person
5.all four of the above equally
6.and then gradually the entire universe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett%C4%81


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Re: Do you feel in your chest? [Re: eve69]
    #18754290 - 08/25/13 07:32 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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eve69 said:
not to follow bodily sensations during meditation





Seems like a waste not to. :satansmoking:


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Do you feel in your chest? [Re: Icelander]
    #18754515 - 08/25/13 09:15 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

my waste is expanding as i get older so you're correct i could use less


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Re: Do you feel in your chest? [Re: eve69]
    #18754539 - 08/25/13 09:23 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Meditation is no magic ticket into fantasy land.  It's great for calming the mind and body and it feels good. And for many humans feeling good is hard to come by. Why deny them a few body rushes etc.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
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Re: Do you feel in your chest? [Re: cez]
    #18795149 - 09/03/13 04:26 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

     


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Re: Do you feel in your chest? [Re: cez] * 1
    #18796038 - 09/03/13 07:44 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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cez said:
I meditate.
A lot of times I feel great feelings on my forehead and at the base of my spine.

Reading some material by Ram Dass and he constantly refers to what I perceive as these feelings but in the chest area.

He has techniques that he claims work to open up the heart so to speak, but I have a hard time adjusting my meditation practice to follow his technique.

So my question is, when you are watching yourself and you feel sensations, where do you typically feel them?

Do you have a technique that works for you to feel from the chest?




Metta was the practice that opened the heart chakra for me, and inner fire, also in the chest, came from working with the heart chakra. It is initially felt in the chest, but it isn't stuck in the chest, because you can move that feeling around through your entire body once you become adept.

You are on the right track bro, practice loving. (It usually requires a lot of forgiving).

Consider all the bad things you have done to people and all the bad things people have done to you, and anything and everything bad in your entire life, feel bad or remorseful about them, then forgive your-self and resolve not to do it anymore. Then you have a clean slate to work with the heart.

This is the spot your feeling for:



So just go to it and feel it. (with awareness)


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Re: Do you feel in your chest? [Re: cez]
    #18797249 - 09/03/13 11:29 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Once all chakras have been enabled you may levitate


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Re: Do you feel in your chest? [Re: Psychotria]
    #18798854 - 09/04/13 11:36 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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Psychotria said:
Once all chakras have been enabled you may levitate




Yeah right . . . .


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Re: Do you feel in your chest? [Re: teknix]
    #18799886 - 09/04/13 04:14 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

You wouldn't know...


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Re: Do you feel in your chest? [Re: Psychotria]
    #18799936 - 09/04/13 04:27 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

very few of us can levitate :levitate:


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Re: Do you feel in your chest? [Re: cez]
    #18800278 - 09/04/13 05:47 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Yes I can get a sort of ticklish feeling there

if you can't feel it then I'd meditate on the Chakra 2-3 inches above your head and see if that works


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