:-) Hi Avi!
I'm not sure if I've got the right end of this, but is one of your concerns that you may be being 'asked' (inferentially) to leave something out of your awareness that you may be aware of spontaneously or if you turn your attention to it? If so, I imagine this could leave an unpleasant perception of having to 'divide your world', incorporating some bits and ignoring others, and maybe overlooking useful aspects. If that sounds like the issue, are you familiar with (more Buddhist-speak) the
Four Foundations/Bases of Mindfulness? Classically [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness_(Buddhism)]Mindfulness practice may be done while "sitting, standing, walking or lying down"...but if swinging from a trapeze or Sufi whirling is your thing, that's OK too:-)
Translations of terms may omit valid aspects, e.g in this Wiki write-up on the
Eighteen Dhatus, under the
Six External Bases spraṣṭavya is translated as "tactile" but the word can have more nuances,
e.g. Also,
kaya, which has been translated as "touch" under the
Six Consciousnesses, actually means "body" in this context, which seems to cover the points you have wished to include.
Through paying attention to some aspects that previously one did not examine, sometimes one makes valuable discoveries and enables welcome effects. For example, since childhood I disliked the taste of most vegetables, blehhh! I would swallow unchewed chunks down with milk in order to avoid the taste. I was still affected this way when I was 22; then one day I decided I'd had enough and was going to chew... At first I thought I was going to be sick...muscles were going into spasm, but I watched the whole lot very carefully (to coin a phrase, "as closely as a cat watches a mouse"). If I had thrown-up, it would have been in front of 20 witnesses or so, as this was a Zen sesshin, but I didn't fuel/put-energy-into thoughts of face-saving:-) As a result of this close attention, the spasming subsided (the same thing can work for hiccups) and didn't recur thereafter when I ate veg. As an even happier 'wedding-bells ending', I began mixing my veg with other foods on the plate, and came to enjoy the flavours.
Wishing you success in your practice (-: