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The standard framing: Meditation is a practice to achieve special states Enlightenment/awakening is the goal, something beyond ordinary The stages are accomplishments Full body awareness is an advanced skill Real framing: Full body awareness is baseline health The "stages" are rehabilitation from damage There's nothing special about it, it's just being human properly Spiritual practice is physical therapy for a civilization-wide injury "Awakening" is just waking up from a pathological state, not transcending normality --- Your normal state is supposed to be full body awareness. This is the natural state of being. If you're not doing this, you're in a contracted state of sickness, where the default mode network and ego are the master and there's no meta-observer. Vast majority of people can't do basic body scanning, this is extreme sickness, causing poor blood flow to your limbs, the body can't generate heat properly, your body can't digest properly, your mind can't observe itself, causing mental sickness. You were supposed to be in full body awareness all the time! This is the basic form of being. And spiritual teachers don't know this, they had to practice to develop full body awareness, so they confuse it for enlightenment and higher stages of being when it's just basic being. This is the basic foundation of how to operate a body not enlightenment. --- All insights come from being in the correct state of being, State comes first. Everything else follows. Correct state → natural wisdom, natural non-attachment, natural presence Damaged state → desperate attachment, mental chaos, need for teachings When you're in the right state, the insights are self-evident. You don't need someone to teach you impermanence, you feel it. You don't need to practice non-attachment, grasping doesn't arise. You don't need someone to teach you love, it self evident. ITS ALL SELF EVIDENT. Stop focussing on being taught and just practice to get yourself in a healthy state of being. --- Most people cant feel there toes! Body scanning is REHABILITATION. You are in a sick suffocating state not aware of your entire body at all times. You should be aware of everything simultaneously all the time, all the sound in your environment, all the sound in your head, all the thoughts in your head, all the feelings of your body, the observer, observing the observer. While you're thinking, you should hear the birds behind you all happening simultaneously. It is all one field.

Dude i know, but do you feel your feet? lmao

I've been practising commanding myself to do things as if it's separate "it" object autonomous AI. The perspective is you're watching yourself then you command the thing "you" to do something like, "relax" or "do this". Basically, you're commanding the puppet and the puppet has no autonomy it just obeys. And this allows the puppet to do things that it doesn't want to do effortlessly without any free will. There's also no experience of "doing" there's only a do-er. The Do-er does things automaticly, and the watcher nudges it in the right direction like talking to a pet. The commander always knows what to do, no thinking needed. The puppet is told to think, when its done thinking the commander knows what to do next with the puppet. The commander is the pure higher self. The commander points to do what is true and wise. Probably no one's gonna respond to this, sharing random thoughts. lol

My belief is that body tension is mostly caused by poor air quality. I'm not gonna get into it, but basically it keeps the body in a contracted state. I personally have this problem too, and I have to consciously relax the tension, but this doesn't happen if I'm in the mountains or places with great air quality like outdoors away from any kind of man-made chemical exposure that could be in the air (cleaning products, peoples laundry detergent on their clothes, mold, candles, perfume, Cologne, anything like that) Air qualities the difference between strong blood flow in your hands and feet and weak blood flow and a contracted state. Heat and Blood flow in the hands and feet should be an effortless thing that the body does on its own. But our toxic environment keeps people contracted. Sitting is not bad for you. all of the studies that are focussed on sitting, and the problem is its testing people who are sitting in a toxic environment, so they're not isolating air quality from the test. So yes, sitting in a box where you're essentially suffocating causes restricted blood flow and high cortisol levels and tension in all of your limbs is bad for you. But they're blind to the important variable.

I Remember you spoke about an experience you had once where you were in a classroom and time would stop and then you would experience extreme stress response. I don't know if Im miss recalling this. lol Did this have anything to do with body awareness? what was the process that built up to this

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Are gymnasts and athletes conscious of there entire body at the same time?

There's two parts to my writing style, the first is intentional controversy to spice it up, which just happens automatically and I probably go too forward with it, the second is I'm not naturally in a humour or play state, sort of robotic autism is the direction. Comes extremely direct and blunt. lol The topic is more like "PEOPLE CANT FEEL THERE BODIES?" wtf are people doing??? Without the body Everything is dysfunctional. And I contribute a lot of of my insights from body awareness as grounding. I don't deny its extremely useful for insights and awakening. From my experience with my own body and analysis and questioning others, not aware of breath and body in a full way is a neurotic state. Maybe you could get away with really good awareness of the breath for grounding Nice I'm interested to know for people who struggle with full body awareness and who are practising, what's their main issue and what kind of practice are they doing? Like can you feel your breath, your hands and your feet at the same time or do you lose one part of your body if you try to focus on another and it's hard to juggle both at the same time?

I wouldn't know, it seems most people can't feel any part of their body unless they're being touched and theres motion involved. It should be pretty easy to direct awareness to any part of the body and feel the skin on it. Like are people incapable of feeling there own skin? The skin of the entire body and every nerve in the body is constantly sending signals to the brain. It just depends in whether you're paying attention to it or not.

Puzzle 11 Black to Play and win. Warning this is not strictly a puzzle. This is a famous game between (white) Mikhail Botvinnik vs (black) Mikhail Tal See if you can play like Tal, black to play.

As a reference there is a core book "The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness". There are 10 stages in this book and the 6-7 stage is "unlock full body awareness". The entire book is about unlocking the body awareness and unifying the mind systems. Level 1: be aware of your feet. Level 2: be aware of your feet and your knee at the same time. Level 3: be aware of your feet and your knee and your hands and your breath at the same time. ... so on. But what im pointing to is full body awareness is not advanced, its a prerequisite for health and any quality of life and longevity. It is sickness/trama/stressors/survival pressure that we are disconnected from the body. Its the natural state to be is a full body awareness. Its like imagine getting under the cover as a kid and feeling the confort of the pillow and mattress. This is basic self awareness to be aware of the body. but most people if you ask them to feel there toes they cant. Not at all, that i would categorize as a advanced state. Im speeking of things much simpler, just to be aware of the entire body and from there it is natural to include everything in ones experience. In the morning right when waking im blocked off and i concentrate to open the gate again and re-enter state of full awareness. The Buddhist word is piti/sukha (rapture/pleasure), waves throughout the body. its a common jhana technique, but i would categorize this as advanced and not average. Base line basic health is full body awareness and relaxation. Teachings often focus on body scanning, to practice unlocking the body. How can a person relax if there not aware of the body? The basic prerequisite for relaxation is that you could feel the relaxation in your body. And if someone can't feel their body relaxing, this is so unhealthy and leads to every chronic illness and ego games.

For years, I've been redesigning the keyboard because the regular keyboard layout never made any sense to me. I recently switched to a Mac and the first thing i did was remapped some basic keys, maybe you guys would find this interesting. caps lock -> Speech to text tab -> enter Tild (button bellow escape key) -> backspace Command + tab -> screen shot This way your left hand could always stay on the keyboard and your right hand could stay on the mouse, now you don't need to move your right hand to the keyboard as often saving a lot of time. I used karabiner elements (mac) to remap.

I can concentrate so hard on one point in my body that it hurts. I can concentrate so hard on my hand that I have a hand orgasm. I can feel the poop moving through my intestinal track at all times. I can feel brain regions activating depending on the task I'm doing. If you focus on your hand, you could notice that there is a inner relaxation and if you keep amplifying an amplifying it, you eventually feel ecstasy.

It's nearly impossible for the normal person to achieve E. Tolle state of being following what he says. He's giving people fish instead of teaching them how to fish

lmao Black to move and win.

I can make a meta chess site for us to play with. I just need help figuring out the game play.

It would be fun, but maybe we'll play Meta chess, or else the better player will always win. There isn't that much of luck in chess when there's big skill gaps.

It's very similar to when I used to fall asleep while playing chess. One part of my brain is doing logical thinking and the other parts is doing something else and you become half asleep.

I unlocked this state by keeping my eyes still and using my peripherals to observe throw my eyes like a cameraman. After holding this possition long enough slowly more and more of the experience becomes part of awareness until everthing is in awareness. Hands and feet become hot and full body awareness is constantly active. You are always aware of your full body, all sounds, all events, all things happening around you, all feelings, all thoughts, everything is in awareness at all times effortlessly. Thinking and self-talk is 95% gone unless its intentionally used. Thoughts stop happening and the voice and thinking process largely stops or is drastily reduced. It becomes almost difficult to have thoughts sometimes the mind is so silent. But thoughts do emerge after comtemplation like they normally do but with out the need to subvocalize. Contemplation happends in silence and insight emerge as intuition from the silence with any need to think. Time is alot slower and the day is a lot fuller. The body is relaxed that it's harder to keep your hands up because you could feel all the the minor fatigue in the muscles, the minor fatigue is normally ignored causing the body to be in constant tension. The body moves as one, each minor motion is a full body gesture even talking is experienced as a full body motion. --- This second part is a experiment i set up trying to take it to the next level. By pushing it so more enters awareness by concentraing harder on the peripherals and tryin to take in as much as possible the body becomes hotter and hotter until im dizzy and start getting a headacke. When the headacke starts i generally stop pushing it and take a break. The heat generated by the body is to the point of sweating and my breath is very calm and slow. The breath slows down more and more and the body ramps up higher and higher. After performing this i couldnt sleep from being over stimulated. The experience is more is pushed into awareness, more detail, time is slower, colors more vivid, feels like pausing. --- This is my recounting of the experience and my own experimentations. I then inputted this into AI and it made a connection with zen. --- This state is now my default state, it's possible to lose it, but following a very simple routine, I could get it back in less than a couple of minutes and once it gets back it's sticky and doesn't leave unless an acute event kicks me out. I dont think this is a special state, i believe its the default stats of many people who have not put any work in. --- Google algorithm tracked what i was searching and gave me the video.

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Puzzle 10: The Quiet move Black to move and win. The counter intuitive moves in chess are the quiet moves, this is were chess really shines. Its the beginner that believes sacrificing the queen is counter intuitive, the problem with it is sacrifices are forceful and forceful moves are the first thing everyone learns to calculate. Its the quiet moves that take time to learn and master and are the heart of chess. The Hand of God are the quiet moves.

Difference is your head feels like a planet and the centre of everything. Probably because you're just more aware of your head. I still feel like a separate ego if that's what you're asking, if I maintain this state for years I might dissolve that as well.