Getting to deeper Visceral experience

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    Hello, I’m a long time meditator and I’m going back to basics and beginning with the first month of learning this type of meditation for the first time. I have been searching for ways of dynamically getting to deeply held psycho-somatic-emotive material as a path to transformation. I’ve been highly influenced by the practice of Focusing by Dr. Eugene Gendlin, where you practice an inner listening style to bring forth implicit “felt-senses” so that they can transform and reveal their contents. I’ve also practiced many many other things to attempt to get at the same end. Such as Reichian and Bioenergetic work.

    I’m now pretty frustrated with where I am, because I feel that I’ve exhausted every practice I’ve come across and there doesn’t seem to be many implicit levels of experiencing that I can get at. No matter how much I try these techniques or how long I practice the more well known meditation styles, such as Vipassana, Zen or Centering Prayer. I’m not a natural feeler and finding feelings in my body is no easy task. And when I can get at a felt-sense of something, it is exceedingly difficult to stay with it and it just disappears in a flash.

    I feel that this style of practice will help me sensitive my attention to these deeper levels of experience that nothing else seems to be able to help me experience. Has this been the experience of others who have gone through this practice further?

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    Hey David,

    If you want to increase your ability to feel, then I think you’ll find this system to be fascinating. Bruce’s system is a kinestetic one. It’s core techinques of Outer Dissolving and Inner Dissolving are all based on the ability to feel. First, you learn how to feel the body. The book “Opening the Energy Gates of the Body” is a great introduction to this stage.

    The work that’s covered in that book will help you with the physical body, the chi of the body and some emotional content. Eventually, as you grow more proficient with that material, you can attempt the more advanced Inner Dissolving meditation work. This technique will allow you to access all layers of your system. Physical, Emotional, Mental and deeper layers. You can use this tecnique to address anything in your mind. From the simplest of past hurts to the most disturbing traumas of war.

    On Bruce’s blog you can find a video posted about Lee Burkins, he used this work to cure himself of the PTSD he got fighting in Vietnam. Others have used it to deal with horrific childhood traumas. It’s the most powerful technique in this system.

    If you are looking for a deep system where you can keep learning and going deeper and deeper, you’ve found one. I’ve been studying for 15 years and most days it feels like I’m just getting started =)

    Hope this helps,
    Janak

     

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    Thank you for the reply. I have done significant emotional and deep psychological work but I feel that I continue to miss something. Much of what I’ve done (working with inner parts or subpersonalities, the felt sense of emotional issues and resolving them in a bodily way and so on) seems to have worked wonders in a grosser characterological manner but I still get this sense that there is still an immense amount of material that still exists but so implicitly, that even these deeply transformative pychological techniques I practice (I’m a therapist) can’t get to.

    Question: does this 16 month course get into the inner dissolving? I’m interested in both the inner and outer dissolving equally.

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