10- When I move the waist forward, it forms an incline, inclining from the protruding belly and gradually declining to the chest,inclining again around the chin and then inclining or declining depending on my head position.I generally move the shoulders forward reducing the incline thereby positioning the front of the body in somewhat vertical form, when viewed from the front. This is what the author recommends: keep the body perfectly upright as far as possible when viewed from the front.
11- My head, I noted, if left alone during meditation, tends to place itself in an upright position, sometimes inclining to to the left side sometimes to the right side, but never turning itself a little bit downward towards the throat, nor turning itself upward towards the nape, but settling as stated somewhere in between. There is also, I noted, a general tendency not to remain motionless but to move again and again especially when exciting or stressing thought arises.
12- I generally turn down the face a little bit and hold it there motionless, as the author recommends; this helps me still the body and by implication the mind; Of course, I do other things like breathing and stressing the lower abdomen to realize the stated aim.
13- I also draw the chin a little bit inward, as the author recommends, but I have not noticed much of a difference in doing so.
14- I also stick out he forehead. This helps me counter a general tendency of mine: contracting the forehead as if I am shortsighted person attempting to see things from a distance. I appear to be shortsighted, from eyesight or clinical point view, hence my farsighted eye glasses.
15- The author recommends we extend these postures, waist forward and upright body position as far as possible, for instance, into our daily lives, so that they become the way we sit or, generally, we carry ourselves around. This is a great recommendation judging from my first hand experience in sitting on a chair implementing as far as possible the recommend postures.Generally speaking when I sit as recommended, I feel strong desire to move after a while and then I move. After movement, I re-start sitting again and so on. In the previous times before I knew how to sit as recommended, I used to feel shoulder pain and other displeasures, which I did not know how to react to them.
16- Hand Positioning ; I generally, place the right hand under the left hand, sometimes I reverse this. I then let the thumbs touch each other at their tips, forming some sort of a whole. This is my favorite hand positioning now. There was a time when I had another favorite hand positioning. I was still placing the right hand under the left hand, even though I had, sometimes, experimented with the reverse, -and it turned out to be great. Now, instead of letting the thumbs touch each other at their tips, I let the right hand thumb touch the palm of the left hand.
17- There is also another method of hand positioning mentioned in the book. I have tried it but did not find it as enticing as other methods stated above. As hinted above, the hand positioning in meditation where thumbs touch, creates a certain feel of stability, hence my preference for it.
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11- My head, I noted, if left alone during meditation, tends to place itself in an upright position, sometimes inclining to to the left side sometimes to the right side, but never turning itself a little bit downward towards the throat, nor turning itself upward towards the nape, but settling as stated somewhere in between. There is also, I noted, a general tendency not to remain motionless but to move again and again especially when exciting or stressing thought arises.
12- I generally turn down the face a little bit and hold it there motionless, as the author recommends; this helps me still the body and by implication the mind; Of course, I do other things like breathing and stressing the lower abdomen to realize the stated aim.
13- I also draw the chin a little bit inward, as the author recommends, but I have not noticed much of a difference in doing so.
14- I also stick out he forehead. This helps me counter a general tendency of mine: contracting the forehead as if I am shortsighted person attempting to see things from a distance. I appear to be shortsighted, from eyesight or clinical point view, hence my farsighted eye glasses.
15- The author recommends we extend these postures, waist forward and upright body position as far as possible, for instance, into our daily lives, so that they become the way we sit or, generally, we carry ourselves around. This is a great recommendation judging from my first hand experience in sitting on a chair implementing as far as possible the recommend postures.Generally speaking when I sit as recommended, I feel strong desire to move after a while and then I move. After movement, I re-start sitting again and so on. In the previous times before I knew how to sit as recommended, I used to feel shoulder pain and other displeasures, which I did not know how to react to them.
16- Hand Positioning ; I generally, place the right hand under the left hand, sometimes I reverse this. I then let the thumbs touch each other at their tips, forming some sort of a whole. This is my favorite hand positioning now. There was a time when I had another favorite hand positioning. I was still placing the right hand under the left hand, even though I had, sometimes, experimented with the reverse, -and it turned out to be great. Now, instead of letting the thumbs touch each other at their tips, I let the right hand thumb touch the palm of the left hand.
17- There is also another method of hand positioning mentioned in the book. I have tried it but did not find it as enticing as other methods stated above. As hinted above, the hand positioning in meditation where thumbs touch, creates a certain feel of stability, hence my preference for it.
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