Feeling Meditation

[Raptorsin7]

Are there specific meditation techniques for feeling more. I feel like i spend a lot of time in my thoughts, and even though I "meditate" a lot i get lost in thought frequently so i'm not actually spending a lot of time feeling during each session.

Any thoughts on meditation techniques designed to help people feel more?

[Lento]

• Long hours (3 or more) of walking meditation.
• Strong determination sitting.

[seeking_brilliance]

Lift dumbbells for about 3 minutes or until your arms really ache, and then sit and just feel the ache until it passes. Every time your mind wanders, or the ache subsides, pick up the weights and make your arms ache some more.  Do it for 5 minutes, but not judging how many times you had to stop and redirect attention to feeling. Then work your way up to 5 minutes without any interruption. Then you can graduate to doing an emotional feeling meditation. 

Edited December 31, 2019 by seeking_brilliance

[Raptorsin7]

@Leonora Okay I will give that a shot. I've been putting off doing loving-kindness meditation but I think now's a good time.

[Raptorsin7]

9 hours ago, seeking_brilliance said:

Then you can graduate to doing an emotional feeling meditation

Can you elaborate on this?

And i don't think I can do 3 straight minutes of curls. Should i just push the curls to as far as I can go?

[seeking_brilliance]

@Raptorsin7 yeah so just curls until your arms ache sufficiently... This will get you used to feeling body awareness by having something very concrete to focus on and then you can begin working on feeling more subtle things like emotional feelings. (unless you are in an emotional state and of course it's not so subtle ?)