Discarding My Mental Tension - by Sasha Chapin

another meditation thing

Discarding My Mental Tension another meditation thing Sasha Chapin Jul 22, 2022 38 4 Share Last week, I wrote about a transformative mental experience that occurred during my meditation practice. It was followed a few months later by another one, which I am documenting in this post. This one, which I call The Untensing, is significantly more difficult to explain, and probably makes me sound crazier. In February, I had my first cessation experience . This is a weird thing that happens to some meditators—basically everyone who does a lot of meditating, at some point—wherein, as far as you can te

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