Modern neuroscience now includes the study of the “bodily self”:
A key aspect of the bodily self is self-location, the experience that the self is localized at a specific position in space within one’s bodily borders (embodied self-location).
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One Way or Another
In one of the sermons of the Pali Canon, Gautama the Buddha described “seven (types of) persons existing in the world”. Here are the first two “persons”, followed by an explanation of Gautama’s terminology:
And which, monks, is the person who is freed both ways? As to this, monks, some person is abiding, ...
My Advice
Here’s a question that was directed to me from someone on “The Dao Bums” forum site, and my reply:
Do you know any reason why I am getting a headache after meditation? I can’t sleep well if I meditate more than 20 minutes.
I have no experience with either of those symptoms.
Something I wrote might apply:
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