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Long stretches of inward attention can tip into flooding or into drifting off, and neither leaves you better than you started. A minute done often builds more than twenty minutes done once and regretted. Pick your piece before you begin, so you are not deciding when to stop while you are already in it.
and I will feel stressed and tongue-tied, so send Aaron too (Quran 26:13). Moses names his limit and asks for what would make the task possible, which is not a failure of nerve.
الشعراء
وَيَضِيقُ صَدۡرِي وَلَا يَنطَلِقُ لِسَانِي فَأَرۡسِلۡ إِلَىٰ هَٰرُونَ
and I will feel stressed and tongue-tied, so send Aaron too
Qur’an 26:13read it in the library
Translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur'an, Oxford University Press, 2004.
A systematic review of chronic pain conditions found body sensing was altered in these groups, and that the pattern differed across the separate strands of accuracy, self-reported noticing, and awareness of one's own noticing. People are not altered in one uniform way. That is reason to expect a single standard practice to suit some and not others, and to keep your own version small and adjustable.
Di Lernia D, Serino S, Riva G. (2016). Pain in the body. Altered interoception in chronic pain conditions: A systematic review.. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews doi
Strength of evidence: one line of research. A single study, or a theoretical account.
Small doses build the capacity without overrunning it.
You are allowed to move. Wiggle your toes, rub one arm from shoulder to hand, put a palm on your chest. A body that is doing something is much easier to feel than one held still.
Stand on one leg for a few breaths. Your body has to work to keep you upright, and that work is loud enough to feel on a day when nothing else registers.
There is more than one way to feel your body. The outward senses, the inward signals like hunger and tension, and the sense of where your limbs are in space are separate channels, and on a hard day one of them will be easier than the others.