Comments on: A student asks: Sometimes when scanning my body during mindfulness practice, I come across some pain or discomfort… http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/med-qa-pain-and-discomfort Explore Meditation Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:56:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: denis http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/med-qa-pain-and-discomfort/comment-page-1#comment-82575 denis Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:34:54 +0000 http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/med-qa-pain-and-discomfort#comment-82575 Namaste Sunada. Thank you, yes your reply is helpful. Am aware that thoughts become things Problem being that after years of negative thought paterns that have now manifested as energy blockages in my body that are a great hinderence to meditation practice and caused me not to complete a 10 day Vipassana retreat. On one level being only in the mind, and therefore having no real substance and Two; manifested as overwhelming sensations of energy rotating in opposite directions causing much pain and all sorts of negative 'Mentating' about, and in the body. Thanking you Denis Namaste Sunada.
Thank you, yes your reply is helpful. Am aware that thoughts become things
Problem being that after years of negative thought paterns that have now manifested as energy blockages in my body that are a great hinderence to meditation practice and caused me not to complete a 10 day Vipassana retreat.
On one level being only in the mind, and therefore having no real substance and
Two; manifested as overwhelming sensations of energy rotating in opposite directions causing much pain and all sorts of negative ‘Mentating’ about, and in the body.

Thanking you
Denis

]]> By: Sunada http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/med-qa-pain-and-discomfort/comment-page-1#comment-82574 Sunada Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:52:07 +0000 http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/med-qa-pain-and-discomfort#comment-82574 Hi Denis, I'm finding it difficult to respond to your question in a meaningful way without knowing more of the context. So I'll have to respond in a general way. What if, instead of focusing on what you experience as a "defilement", you cultivated the opposite quality? For example, rather than trying to stop ourselves from feeling angry and resentful, we could look for more things that we make us feel genuinely happy, loving, and kind. There's an old adage that says whatever we put our attention to is what grows. Rather than focusing on the problem (which only makes then grow larger in our experience), what about putting your mind on the opposite, positive quality? By putting our mind on positive things in our present experience, we being to live out those qualities and directly experience what it's like to BE that way. That little seed of direct experience is what starts us on the path of new directions. Does that help? with metta, Sunada www.mindfulpurpose.com Hi Denis,

I’m finding it difficult to respond to your question in a meaningful way without knowing more of the context. So I’ll have to respond in a general way. What if, instead of focusing on what you experience as a “defilement”, you cultivated the opposite quality? For example, rather than trying to stop ourselves from feeling angry and resentful, we could look for more things that we make us feel genuinely happy, loving, and kind. There’s an old adage that says whatever we put our attention to is what grows. Rather than focusing on the problem (which only makes then grow larger in our experience), what about putting your mind on the opposite, positive quality? By putting our mind on positive things in our present experience, we being to live out those qualities and directly experience what it’s like to BE that way. That little seed of direct experience is what starts us on the path of new directions.

Does that help?

with metta,
Sunada
http://www.mindfulpurpose.com

]]> By: denis http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/med-qa-pain-and-discomfort/comment-page-1#comment-82572 denis Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:27:45 +0000 http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/med-qa-pain-and-discomfort#comment-82572 Hi Sunada, Greetings to you from South Africa, Appreciation for all of you at "Wildmind" Could you possibly advise me on what seems to be a underlying feeling of "Unsatisfactoryness"? I have been observing this phenomena for a long time. These defilememts, and others, seem to take up so much of my time that I would rather spend on more wholesome attitudes. Inflated judgements about this ego pain body. Know I should STOP IT! But how? Grattitude Denis Hi Sunada, Greetings to you from South Africa, Appreciation for all of you at “Wildmind”
Could you possibly advise me on what seems to be a underlying feeling of “Unsatisfactoryness”? I have been observing this phenomena for a long time. These defilememts, and others, seem to take up so much of my time that I would rather spend on more wholesome attitudes.
Inflated judgements about this ego pain body.
Know I should STOP IT! But how?

Grattitude
Denis

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