I found it useful for my own practice to write a summary and variant of the Giant Body exercises in the first book, which I've included below.
Steve Randall
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While breathing through both mouth and nose gently, smoothly, and continuously, allow awareness to be drawn to any sensation, density, pain, heaviness, emotion, or other feeling in or on the body. Let awareness and feeling merge , or let awareness arise from any feeling that is not completely open and spacious. Just abide in the interaction. There's no need to try to change anything--most likely the quality or location of feeling will change on its own, eventually becoming more open and spacious. As things change, awareness can be drawn to other feelings. There's a natural movement of awareness, possibly taking various positions, locations, points of view, or simultaneous viewpoints, or no apparent viewpoint, location, or direction at all. Awareness can operate and interact with feeling at different levels of magnification or size, possibly at the level of organs, tissues, cells, molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles.
As the interaction of awareness and feeling proceeds, see whether there are any persistent feelings or apparently persistent structures or regions or surfaces or boundaries--such as 'body', 'kidney', 'blood cell', 'belly', or 'skin'. Do these continue to persist, or do they become more open? Do they have some kind of feeling of reality, existence, or a substantial quality? Is awareness hindered or obstructed somehow from interacting or merging with such structures, regions, or surfaces?
Is there any awareness of size or shape related to various structures or regions or surfaces? Does the sense of size or shape come and go, depending on the related viewpoint, or lack of a located viewpoint? Is there any sense of extension of any aspects of 'the body' in space, or a subtle feeling of it being located in an infinite, yet empty 'container'? Let awareness merge with any such feelings.
In the movement and interaction of awareness with forms and surfaces, is it ever limited to subtle positions or perspectives or directions? Is it ever obstructed in any way? Does it focus on distinct regions or fields? Does its breadth, range, or scope vary? Does it ever seem to lose all sense of definite scope and direction?
Is there any distinction whatsoever between awareness and the structures, regions, or surfaces? If so, precisely what makes the difference? How do the forms or outlines seem to exist, to feel 'real'? Do the forms or outlines seem to somehow be imaginary or 'unreal'?
Steve Randall
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While breathing through both mouth and nose gently, smoothly, and continuously, allow awareness to be drawn to any sensation, density, pain, heaviness, emotion, or other feeling in or on the body. Let awareness and feeling merge , or let awareness arise from any feeling that is not completely open and spacious. Just abide in the interaction. There's no need to try to change anything--most likely the quality or location of feeling will change on its own, eventually becoming more open and spacious. As things change, awareness can be drawn to other feelings. There's a natural movement of awareness, possibly taking various positions, locations, points of view, or simultaneous viewpoints, or no apparent viewpoint, location, or direction at all. Awareness can operate and interact with feeling at different levels of magnification or size, possibly at the level of organs, tissues, cells, molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles.
As the interaction of awareness and feeling proceeds, see whether there are any persistent feelings or apparently persistent structures or regions or surfaces or boundaries--such as 'body', 'kidney', 'blood cell', 'belly', or 'skin'. Do these continue to persist, or do they become more open? Do they have some kind of feeling of reality, existence, or a substantial quality? Is awareness hindered or obstructed somehow from interacting or merging with such structures, regions, or surfaces?
Is there any awareness of size or shape related to various structures or regions or surfaces? Does the sense of size or shape come and go, depending on the related viewpoint, or lack of a located viewpoint? Is there any sense of extension of any aspects of 'the body' in space, or a subtle feeling of it being located in an infinite, yet empty 'container'? Let awareness merge with any such feelings.
In the movement and interaction of awareness with forms and surfaces, is it ever limited to subtle positions or perspectives or directions? Is it ever obstructed in any way? Does it focus on distinct regions or fields? Does its breadth, range, or scope vary? Does it ever seem to lose all sense of definite scope and direction?
Is there any distinction whatsoever between awareness and the structures, regions, or surfaces? If so, precisely what makes the difference? How do the forms or outlines seem to exist, to feel 'real'? Do the forms or outlines seem to somehow be imaginary or 'unreal'?
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