ation without counting.

Such people don’t need to bother

with any of the above counting techniques. As your mind
calms, you may find that your respiration becomes subtler,
and this results in fainter sensations of breathing. The
further you progress in this practice, the subtler the
breath becomes. At times it may become so subtle that you
can’t detect it at all. This challenges you to enhance the
vividness of attention. In other words, you have to pay
closer and closer attention to these sensations in order
to stay mentally engaged with the breath.21 There’s a kind
of biofeedback proction without counting. Such people
don’t need to bother with any of the above counting
techniques. As your mind calms, you may find that your
respiration becomes subtler, and this results in fainter
sention without counting. Such people don’t need to bother
with any of the above counting techniques. As your mind
calms, you may find that your respiration becomes subtler,
and this results in fainter sensations of breathing. The
further you progress in this practice, the subtler the
breath becomes. At times it may become so subtle that you
can’t detect it at all. This challenges you to enhance the
vividness of attention. In other words, you have to pay
 closer and closer attention to these sensations in order
to stay mentally engaged with the breath.21 There’s a kind
of biofeedback process at work here. If your mind becomes
distracted and you get caught up in involuntary thoughts,
your breathing will become coarser, resulting in stronger
sensations, which are easier to detect. But as your mind
calms down again, the breathing and the sensations that go
with it become finer, and this once again challenges you
to heighten the degree of vividness. Mindfulness of
breathing has this unique “biofeedback” advantage. Various
physical sensations may occur in meditation. Sometimes you
may feel that your limbs are extremely heavy or thick.
Sometimes your body may feel very large. Or you may feel
that you are floating or lesations of breathing. The
further you progress in this practice, the subtler the
breath becomes. At times it may become so subtle that you
can’t detect it at all. This challenges you to enhance the
vividness of attention. In other words, you have to pay
closer and closer attention to these sensations in order
to stay mentally engaged with the breath.21 There’s a kind
of biofeedback process at work here. If your mind becomes
distracted and you get caught up in involuntary thoughts,
your breathing will become coarser, resulting in stronger
sensations, which are easier to detect. But as your mind
calms down again, the breathing and the sensations that go
with it become finer, and this once again challenges you
to heighten the degree of vividness. Mindfulness of
breathing has this unique “biofeedback” advantage. Various
physical sensations may occur in meditation. Sometimes you
may feel that your limbs are extremely heavy or thick.
Sometimes your body may feel very large. Or you may feel
that you are floating or leess at work here. If your mind
becomes distracted and you get caught up in involuntary
thoughts, your breathing will become coarser, resulting in
stronger sensations, which are easier to detect. But as
your mind calms down again, the breathing and the
sensations that go with it become finer, and this once
again challenges you to heighten the degree of vividness.
Mindfulness of breathing has this unique “biofeedback”
advantage. Various physical sensations may occur in
meditation. Sometimes you may feel that your limbs are
extremely heavy or thick. Sometimes your body may feel
very large. Or you may feel that you are floating or le
tion without counting. Such people don’t need to bother
 with any of the above counting techniques. As your mind
calms, you may find that your respiration becomes subtler,
and this results in fainter sensations of breathing. The
further you progress in this practice, the subtler the
breath becomes. At times it may become so subtle that you
can’t detect it at all. This challenges you to enhance the
vividness of attention. In other words, you have to pay
closer and closer attention to these sensations in order
to stay mentally engaged with the breath.21 There’s a kind
of biofeedback process at work here. If your mind becomes
distracted and you get caught up in involuntary thoughts,
your breathing will become coarser, resulting in stronger
sensations, which are easier to detect. But as your mind
calms down again, the breathing and the sensations that go
with it become finer, and this once again challenges you
to heighten the degree of vividness. Mindfulness of
breathing has this unique “biofeedback” advantage. Various
physical sensations may occur in meditation. Sometimes you
may feel that your limbs are extremely heavy or thick.
Sometimes your body may feel very large. Or you may feel
that you are floating or le