I also noticed that my mind allowed itself to unlock from the targets. I didn’t try to figure out why I was thinking the way I was or solve any problems or write any new stories.

As soon as I felt into the sensations, they morphed, and the attached thoughts morphed with them. I noticed a whole world of possibilities within my cognition and belief systems that literally had not existed in my awareness 5 minutes before. 


The creative unconscious at work.

Wow.

Jack Kornfield says, “If you become aware of your feelings, they don’t last very long. We feel like we’re angry for a day, or sad for a week, or happy for a month, or grieving for a while — as if those feelings lasted that long. But if you look closely and you let yourself feel what is here and pay attention — feelings rarely last more than thirty seconds, maybe a minute, and then turn into something else. Guaranteed. If you have some feeling that feels like it’s lasted much longer than that, you haven’t paid attention to it. This is how loving awareness frees us.”