I don’t like body awareness. Whenever I start having body awareness, I usually end up noticing various tiny aches and pains that I’d rather not be aware of. (For example, my glasses often cause me pain behind my ears—and getting them adjusted doesn’t really help that much.) In fact, trying to pay attention to my body often seems to trigger such pains...
Whereas I’ve been fascinated for years by improving my body awareness, so take this as possibly risky, but Open Focus talks about making pain less salient (and sometimes go away) by increasing awareness—partly because pain is increased by trying to fight it so that accepting it helps, and partly by putting it into a larger context of non-painful sensations. I’ve tried this (on minor pains) and it works some of the time.
I don’t like body awareness. Whenever I start having body awareness, I usually end up noticing various tiny aches and pains that I’d rather not be aware of. (For example, my glasses often cause me pain behind my ears—and getting them adjusted doesn’t really help that much.) In fact, trying to pay attention to my body often seems to trigger such pains...
Whereas I’ve been fascinated for years by improving my body awareness, so take this as possibly risky, but Open Focus talks about making pain less salient (and sometimes go away) by increasing awareness—partly because pain is increased by trying to fight it so that accepting it helps, and partly by putting it into a larger context of non-painful sensations. I’ve tried this (on minor pains) and it works some of the time.