Beliefs anchored in sensations
Yesterday morning, I woke up and saw how a range of beliefs are anchored in specific sensations.
I have seen for a while how the sense of a separate self, or rather the belief in a separate self, is anchored in particular sensations in the head area (lower center of the head.)
And it is also becoming clearer to me how any belief in similarly anchored in particular sensations.
The most noticeable example for me are the many beliefs that strongly says that an immediate external situation should be different, which - when triggered - are anchored on tension in my calves.
The belief arises, are placed on particular sensations in a particular location of space, that is then used as a base for a sense of a separate self, and the trigger - arising in another location of space - is seen as Other.
It even seems that if the usual sensations are not already present, they are made present through contractions, so there usual place of anchoring the particular beliefs becomes available.
Releasing the charge
It seems almost comical, and that is one of the reason there is a release from this whole process when this is noticed. The process may still occur - with ideas arising, a physical tension, and a placing of the ideas on the location of the sensation of this tension - but there is a release of identification with it.
With the release of identification, it is all revealed as just arising in space, and the sense of I - placed on particular sensations, and Other - placed in another location in space, is also released.
This takes the charge out of what is happening, independent of the strength of the process. And it also takes the charge out of the process itself, weakens it in the moment and weakening the habitual pattern over time.
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