Other places people find pleasant sensations include the third eye, the top of the head, the shoulders—actually, you name a body part, and I’ve had some student find a pleasant sensation there that they were able to focus on long enough for the first jhāna to arise. It does not matter where the pleasant sensation manifests; what matters is that there is a pleasant sensation and you’re able to put your attention on it and—now here comes the really hard part—do nothing else.
