EP248: Feeling is not in your body

I’ve come to love a familiar feeling of dread that visits many mornings. How this feeling is experienced has changed quite a bit over the years. 

Initially, I found a lot of benefit in curiously inquiring into the thought behind the feeling. Was there one? I’d explore who this feeling was about and who it was for, looking to see if I could find an owner or recipient of this feeling. (I never could).

Then I looked forward to leaning into the sensations and thoughts that naturally arose. This was less inquiry and more exploration of only what was there in my experiencing of it.

More recently, something new has been seen about this feeling. It’s not in “my” body, or any body, at all.

It’s just experiencing. No container, no belonging to, no location. Just experiencing. Same with thought. Feelings aren’t in “your body” and thoughts aren’t actually in “your head”, right? Do you really experience them there?

This container-free exploration is worth exploring! 

–the book mentioned in this episode is Refuting the External World by Goran Backlund https://www.amazon.com/Refuting-External-World-Goran-Backlund-ebook/dp/B00NOXW8QE

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