"Hey Adam, I am more aware of my own body than I ever was before. However, it somehow scares me. I discover unpleasantness that I did not even know existed. For example, as I come to the present, I feel pain and I hear this noise in my head (a tinnitus) ... It almost feels as if I am creating all this myself, maybe by becoming aware but being scared/resistant to what is. Is that possible? I am somehow disappointed in myself when I realise that I am not accepting the unpleasant sensations..."
Let The Universe Meditate For You
Anxiety Meditation
How To Meditate
A lot of it is about attention. Attention is energy. Whatever you give attention to, becomes bigger, and often becomes bigger than it really is. So from early we are just trained to mostly pay attention to what we think, what pops up in our head, and all the attention is going there, making its seem as if thoughts are all that there is...
Meditation & Obsessive Thoughts
I suppose the main message of that book is that there need not be any ideal way to feel, that thoughts are very difficult to stop or block, and any self-created suffering will strengthen itself the more you resist it, judge it has bad or want it to be gone; that you are already that in which thoughts and sensations and emotions appear and disappear...