For some reason, 2/3 of 's meditation technique in the Cutting Machinery app works perfectly for me, but the third seldom works.
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Alternating between focus and open awareness works perfectly well - I mean, as an exercise - but often there's no emotion to process!
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Which leaves me feeling moderately awkward that I just can't conjure up anything to feel upset about, at least in the moment.
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The only thing that seems to work consistently is to spend a lot of time invoking some particularly horrible thing about the world, but...
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... even then, the whole thing becomes rather contrived, turns into more of an exercise in imagination than processing emotion as such.
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Either I am grossly misinterpreting the point of the exercise or bungling the technique, or for whatever reason it just isn't an issue.
Echoing what Vinay said, I've found that just gently resting awareness over tension / pain in the body can help release those knots.
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But sometimes it turns out that that area's numb, in which case I've had to back off to somewhere with more sensation, and work in.