Labeling the thoughts & some mind state I recognized
15 years 7 months ago #59020
by Kundun
Labeling the thoughts & some mind state I recognized was created by Kundun
During this morning sitting I recognized two things:
1) I don't want to label the feelings, thoughts etc. Noticing them is ok, but it seems to put unnecessary thought processes on when I have to search for sufficient label for those things. So I decided not to use the labels. The assignment of negative - neutral-positive is much easier as you don't really have to give that label to "know" the nature of the phenomena. I mean that when I notice something, e.g. some feeling it is very subtle thing to also notice whether it is pleasant or not at the same time.
2) In some point of the sitting I went to this mind state where you kind of seem to "move backwards/deeper inside". At the same time it feels like you are shrinking and going inwards and also at the same time you kind of expand. Hard to put in words. But anyway I realized that this is something that I visit from time to time and nowadays bit more often that before. This is also something that I remember visiting pretty often as a child. It always happened spontaneously and at some point of the phenomenon I got bit frightened and got out of it. Nowadays I don't fear it anymore..
Anybody had similar experiences?
ps. I posted this on my practice notes too, but I wanted to post this also separately because I wanted the subject field to be visible.
1) I don't want to label the feelings, thoughts etc. Noticing them is ok, but it seems to put unnecessary thought processes on when I have to search for sufficient label for those things. So I decided not to use the labels. The assignment of negative - neutral-positive is much easier as you don't really have to give that label to "know" the nature of the phenomena. I mean that when I notice something, e.g. some feeling it is very subtle thing to also notice whether it is pleasant or not at the same time.
2) In some point of the sitting I went to this mind state where you kind of seem to "move backwards/deeper inside". At the same time it feels like you are shrinking and going inwards and also at the same time you kind of expand. Hard to put in words. But anyway I realized that this is something that I visit from time to time and nowadays bit more often that before. This is also something that I remember visiting pretty often as a child. It always happened spontaneously and at some point of the phenomenon I got bit frightened and got out of it. Nowadays I don't fear it anymore..
Anybody had similar experiences?
ps. I posted this on my practice notes too, but I wanted to post this also separately because I wanted the subject field to be visible.