Les Femi's Dissolving Pain with Open Focus.
Taking any comfortable posture.
Can you imagine feeling the space that the room around you occupies?
Can you imagine feeling the space that your body occupies?
At the same time as you're aware of the space your body occupies,
Is it possible for you to imagine feeling the space around your body and the space above and below your body?
Can you imagine treating the most intense of your body's discomforts as the pain in the following questions?
Is it possible for you to imagine the length,
Width,
Thickness and shape of the most intense pain you now feel?
At the same time as you're feeling the space inside and the space outside your body,
Can you imagine feeling the three-dimensional space your pain occupies?
Can you imagine feeling the space between the most intense pain you feel and the sides of your body?
Can you imagine feeling the space between the most intense pain you feel and the top of your head?
Can you imagine feeling the space between the most intense pain you feel and the soles of your feet?
Can you imagine feeling the space between the most intense pain you feel and the front of your body?
Can you imagine feeling the space between the most intense pain you feel and the back of your body?
Can you imagine feeling the space between your pain and the space inside and between your ears?
Can you imagine feeling the space between your pain and the space inside your mouth and cheeks?
Can you imagine feeling the space between your pain and the space occupied by your throat and neck?
Can you imagine feeling the space between your pain and the space your head occupies?
Can you imagine feeling the space between your pain and the space your upper trunk occupies?
Can you imagine feeling the space between your pain and the space occupied by your waist?
Can you imagine feeling the space between your pain and the space your lower trunk occupies?
Is it possible for you to imagine feeling the space between your pain and the space your belly occupies?
Can you imagine feeling the space between your pain and the space occupied by your internal organs?
Is it possible for you to imagine feeling the space between your pain and the closest region of your spine?
Can you imagine feeling the space between your pain and the space your arms occupy?
Can you imagine feeling the space between your pain and the space occupied by your fingers?
Can you imagine feeling the space between your pain and the space your legs occupy?
Can you imagine feeling the space between your pain and the space occupied by your toes?
Is it possible for you to imagine that as you inhale and exhale naturally,
Your breath traverses through the space occupied by your pain?
Is it possible for you to imagine that you neither resist nor narrow focus away from your pain?
Is it possible for you to imagine that you neither resist nor narrow focus away from the space that the room and your body occupy?
Can you imagine centering your narrow objective attention on the presence of your most intense pain while also immersed in a diffuse vast space?
Is it possible for you to imagine immersing your attention into the feeling of your skin?
At the same time,
Can you imagine diffusing your pain into the space surrounding it?
Can you imagine allowing your pain to diffuse through every region and boundary of your body?
Can you imagine feeling that the boundaries of your body and the boundaries of your pain are gradually dissolving?
Can you imagine feeling that the space inside and the space outside your body are becoming continuous?
Can you imagine that the boundaries of your pain are dissolving,
Allowing your pain to diffuse in every direction?
Can you imagine attending to a vast three-dimensional space that pervades your sensations and perception?
Can you imagine feeling that your narrow focused attention is centering itself in the region of the most intense remaining part of your pain and is immersing in it?
Is it possible for you to imagine that your attention diffuses and becomes more immersed in your pain,
Occupying the most intense feeling of pain?
As your attention immerses into the center of your pain,
Can you imagine feeling your pain diffuse?
Can you imagine that in open focus attention there needn't be any movement?
Can you imagine that open focus is an effortless process of attending in which you can rest and also function?
Once again,
Can you imagine feeling what remains of your original pain?
Is it possible for you to imagine diffusing your attention and immersing it in your remaining pain?
Can you imagine that you can diffuse and immerse your attention throughout your pain and space?
Once again,
Can you imagine allowing the diffusion and immersion of your attention throughout pain and space?
Just as you merge in the experience of the most intense remaining pain,
Can you once more imagine letting the pain diffuse throughout your awareness and space?
Can you imagine that your diffuse attention includes space,
Pain and all else that is available to your awareness?
And again,
Can you imagine guiding your narrow objective attention towards the most intense remaining feeling of your pain,
Diffusing and immersing your attention more fully into whatever pain remains?
Can you imagine immersing and diffusing your attention into your pain until once again pain diffuses?
Once more,
Can you imagine what it would feel like if you were already immersed in the feeling of pain and letting it diffuse?
Can you imagine letting your narrow objective attention immerse into the most intense remaining pain until you experience letting the pain diffuse?
Can you imagine repeating this cycle at your own pace until your pain has completely dissolved?
