Reply To: Music and Feeling

  • Brad Hendricks

    Member
    October 25, 2024 at 5:31 pm

    I have found that Iain is right about the different modes of attention. Meditation is easier when I focus on being in the present moment. My meditation teacher actually uses the term “sinking in” to practice meditation. It is similar to taking a bath. Rather than analyze the water temperature (domain of the left hemisphere) just be present to the sensations of the bath. Interestingly, Stanley Block, MD wrote a book called “Come to your Senses” to describe a process called mind-body bridging, and the practices in that book are definitely right hemisphere related. My focus now is that why does Western culture value everything in the left hemisphere, and yet what makes life feel alive and meaningful is in the right hemisphere? I have decided to shift from an achievement focus to a relationship focus since it is relationships that make life fulfilling.