Vipashyana On Emotions
These are techniques that are taught by Michael Taft and rendered for social meditation by me (Sholom Gutleizer). In the first technique, the goal is to loosely stabilize attention on the breath with very little attention and keep your mind open to vast spacious awareness.
We will be noting:
"Breathing" or
"Dropping" (the latter is when we narrow away from vast awake awareness)
The second technique is to hold on to the Nondual View and note the entire physical body at once, specifically noticing its vast spaciousness. Notice the flux and flow, how its made up of many different tiny sensations all in motion, arising, flowing and passing in and from emptiness.
We will be noting :
The Whole as "Body Sensations", "Whole body"...
if sensations seem solid or sticky, you can note them specifically with '____ arising/flowing/disappearing into emptiness' if that's helpful.
The third technique will include emotional body sensations as well as physical sensations. Hold the whole body as vastness in your awareness and find or induce an emotional body sensation. Then include that as vast sapciousness in the body.
We will be noting :
The Whole as "Body Sensations", "Whole body"...
If an emotional body sensation seems solid or sticky, you can note it specifically with '____ arising/flowing/disappearing into emptiness' if that's helpful.
PSA
Anything helpful here I took from Michael and any mistakes are mine and mine alone.