[Junot CMember]

This may be the droid you’re looking for:
https://palousemindfulness.com/meditations/bodyscan20min.html

[Junot CMember]

Hi Blake,

Thank you for your response and suggestions. I’m taking a much more relaxed attitude to the body scan and the tension is much better; I find I need to monitor it quite closely. actively relax, and be gentle with myself to avoid forcing attention. I appreciate you giving me the context that it might take a long time to develop the clarity to sense the breath sensations everywhere. You reassurance is appreciated!

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by  Junot C. Reason: Grammar

[Junot CMember]

Thank you Pop, I’ll look at that video more closely, although my Chinese is a bit rusty 😉 I appreciate your advice regarding the tension too.

[Junot CMember]

Well no guarantees on the time frame, but thought it might help to let you know it can take some time. Culadasa does say expressly in the book to be prepared to work with dullness for entire sessions (p.145). Really though, the walking meditation interlude was well worth it. I think what’s happening is that one is trying to ‘reprogram’ your conditioning that when you start to get relaxed it’s time to go to sleep.

[Junot CMember]

I only recently overcame this myself after struggling with it for 3 months… and it sucked.

The one thing that helped me was straightening (or more accurately, lengthening) my spine; (think pushing the ceiling up with your head) when dullness sets in. Like Ted Lemon said: catch it early!

Also I started changing up my routine a bit: 20min sitting (then dullness would set in) – get up and do walking meditation for 10 minutes – sit for 30 minutes further.

In the end though, I think that it mainly just went away on its own. Now I can sit the whole session.

Best of luck to you

[Junot CMember]

Hi Ivan,

Yes that was me 🙂 I orginally posted the question in Culadasa’s AMA but he didn’t have time to get to it.

I have done a lot of psychological work on myself over the last for years before I started meditating and I was thinking that it may have resolved a lot of things. But thank you for your answer; it is inline with what I was thinking.

The main reason I was worried was because he said that it WILL happen in this stage and that it is an essential part of your journey. Most other things I don’t worry about too much and just stick to the goals for that chapter.

Thanks again.

[Author]

Posts