For those of you who like to do things systemically, there is a formal practice called body scan. It is one of the core practices in Jon Kabat-Zinn’s highly successful Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course. The practice itself is very simple: we just systematically bring moment-to-moment non-judging attention to different parts of our bodies, starting from the top of our head and moving down to the tips of our toes
I've been doing this during mindfulness meditation while reading this book. I think I got this from my high school psychology teacher, Mr Weinstein (another really jolly good fellow). Sometimes have to mindfully reorient my attention from thinking of him, his class while meditating. What would it mean, however, to intentionally meditate on a memory of past meditation? And how many stack frames deep can that recursion go? ;)
