“And how, monks, does a monk dwell practising feeling-contemplation on feelings?

When experiencing a pleasant feeling, the monk knows: ‘I experience a pleasant feeling’; when experiencing a painful feeling, he knows: ‘I experience a painful feeling’; when experiencing a neutral feeling, he knows: ‘I experience a neutral feeling.”

 (Maha Satipatthana Sutta tr. Nyanaponika Mahathera)

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In this podcast:

• The difference between feeling/vedana and emotional feelings

• The two expressions of vedana/feeling in subjective experience and in objective movement orientation.

• The importance of vedana in instinct and as a life-guide also in the complexity of habit-formation.

• Reversing the flow of energy from established habit - the phobia treatment.

• Use of restraint - what helps and what hinders the formation of required habits.