Isn't it cute how the body thinks it's conscious?
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If you carve awareness straight through feelings in the body, accepting no diversions, you find that it can go outside.
The body/mind point of reference is taught, acquired, habitual, arbitrary. Convenient for any number of daily life tasks, but a hindrance in other situations.
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This body is not having it so nice. Divorce is rough, man. Sudden, non-negotiable divorce worse.
All of that seems pretty irrelevant when you consciousness isn't fixated on it, though. It's certainly happening, certainly important *to the body*. But the body is not conscious.
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Instead of going catatonic or dissociating stress at the bodily level, leaving it to it. It cries a bit. Feels heavy. Sad thoughts.
Consciousness around that is strongly attenuated, though, so it's fine to let it have that without being rendered completely nonfunctional.
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Although it's not fair to say this has no bodily effects.
Resting consciousness mostly not in the body produces a flat expression, very little emotion, very clear focus.
Letting it rest more in the body produces a whole host of feelings, fluctuating focus, expressive face.
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It's probably possible to do both/and, arbitrarily, but I'm not quite able to do that just yet.
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Strongly thematic:
youtu.be/Bag1gUxuU0g
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All of which is nothing special and interesting. All those technicalities are nothing more than the by-products of certain attentional skills.
It's all the same shit, but it is experienced very differently depending on your (literal) point of view.
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