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The feeling of being centered in my eyes or in the upper portion of my body would return on occasion, and whenever I noticed this, I would again expand the sensation outward, like a circle of rippling water spreading out to encompass the lake of my sensory field.\u00c2\u00a0 Eventually, both the point of contraction and the expanded circle seemed to be present together, cancelling each other out (in terms of either being “ultimate”).\u00c2\u00a0 After a time, I found that the expanded circle itself had a sort of “fixed” quality, with its own boundaries, and so I expanded this as well.\u00c2\u00a0 The first expansions had set up an alternative, wider frame, but there was a subtle stuckness and dullness to it.\u00c2\u00a0 When I began to expand and open this as well, there was a more powerful sense of decentering that, at the same time, seemed like a “bright ordinariness.”\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know how else to put it.\u00c2\u00a0 Contractions, whenever noted, just rippled outward automatically, and I walked in a simple freshness.<\/p>\n
On a break at work today, I took a walk around the office building in the blustery October weather.\u00c2\u00a0 The clouds were grey and billowing, gathering threateningly overhead; the gusts of wind carried faint traces of moisture that braced the … Continue reading