| | I think I'm probably over my post limit, and definitely over my thread limit, but I promised myself I would do nothing today except try to maintain PCE (or what I'm thinking is PCE), and my only entertainment has been a little math homework and some posting.
anyway, tell me if this works for you, this is what I'm doing, I just look around at stuff in my room trying to induce wonder and a sense of its perfection, also considering that now is the only moment, then I try to just sense with the senses, trying to feel right at the edge of the skin, see with the very front of the eye, hear with the very end of the ear cavity, and then I start feeling a pleasure (whatever you feel in 1st jhana - its just like that) in region of below navel to solar plexus. I try to totally tune in to the senses and I'm in what I think is PCE. I feel that jhana pleasure, concentrated in the earlier mentioned region but also felt at all points of physical contact as well as in face. It makes me incline towards breathing more slowly and also tensing some muscles.
My questions for people farther along in actualism than me are, do you feel that pleasure in (at least entering) a PCE, what thoughts do you have? For me I can think words if I really want to (its uncomfortable) but I can't picture anything.
Something that also works is focusing on that sensation first with my eyes closed, trying to really feel physical sensation, then I open my eyes after about 5 minutes and boom. |