Help with NEW

[Emanresu]

Hi,

I downloaded NEW a while ago but only just got round to reading it. If it can do what it says (which I believe it can), then I will be very impressed.

But when I started the exercises, I got stuck on basic awareness. The easy bit.
I scratch my knee, and become aware of it, but only slightly more aware than the rest of my body. So I can still feel my whole body, what my hands are touching and other stuff.
So what should I be feeling? Am I supposed to not be aware of my body at all? And do you have any tips?

Thanks

[You]

First off, why do you believe it can? You may be too quick to believe.

Don't try and lock things out, that just makes you more aware of them, just let go, focus on the knee, let it encompass your thoughts (it's difficult when you can think about a lot of things at once, I know I do).

[karnautrahl]

You are trying to utilise muscle memory to allow yourself to focus your attention to any part of your body as necessary.  The model you are looking for is hands. Mental hands if you like.
When you stroke, scratch normally-do you then NOT feel the rest of your body? No.
You simply have your attention focussed on where you are touching/scratching/stroking. Its a normal fade affect to a degree.
So when you are using your mental hands, using a physical touch to target the area is meant to guide you to mentally touch that area.
It doesn't get mystical or anything.  You'll simply find that after 30seconds to 2 mins of such mental stirring stroking or wrapping actions that the area may tingle, tickle or heat up without you physically touching it.
The phrase tactile imaging and mobile body awareness are simply that. tactilely imagining sensations in the body. Mobile awareness being able to switch your conscious focus to other parts of your body. Typically your conscousness will rest behind your eyes somewhere.

[Emanresu]

Thanks for your replies. I was trying to do more than was needed,  but your information helped.

I believe it can work because of all the positive comments i've seen about it. If I stumbled across it on a plain website, I wouldn't have bothered to see if it would work. But because I read the comments first, I thought it should be good.