Awareness of Sensations during meditation

[Butters]

Are the sensations I feel during meditation always there and I just don't notice them? Or are they created during meditation? 

Sensations are mainly energy points in the body and general pleasant feelings from under the skin.  

Edited December 14 by Butters

[theleelajoker]

So I don't know - but my opinion:

• It's always there I just don't notice it
• The filter of "what becomes conscious" during meditation becomes just a) different b) more granular

[Butters]

Nobody knows this. I always ask questions in this sub that nobody knows. 

[quantumspiral]

@Butters I'd say probably both. When you're meditating, you increasing your awareness of bodily sensations so you'll almost certainly discover new sensations when you reach enough awareness.

However, awareness directed in specific areas of the body has it's own fuzzy, vibratory quality- I believe this is generating during meditation

[Evelyna]

1 hour ago, Butters said:

Nobody knows this. I always ask questions in this sub that nobody knows. 

Sensations are always present but your attention is elsewhere, energy flows where attention goes 😊 and attention goes where energy flows. 

[Evelyna]

28 minutes ago, quantumspiral said:

@Butters I'd say probably both. When you're meditating, you increasing your awareness of bodily sensations so you'll almost certainly discover new sensations when you reach enough awareness.

However, awareness directed in specific areas of the body has it's own fuzzy, vibratory quality- I believe this is generating during meditation

I would say it is generated all the time , attention is the word we looking for , your attention is not on everything all the time and so we tend to miss certain sensations although they are there.

[quantumspiral]

@Evelyna It's a very interesting question- you may very well be right. One thing to note is that awareness applied to physical pain can often dissolve the pain, which may suggest there is some physiological change being brought about by the awareness. Open Focus Brain by Les Fehmi addresses this in detail

Edited Tuesday at 08:02 PM by quantumspiral