Yogi: I’m a professional dancer and I find it very hard to sit still – first, my mind goes in a diagonal direction to the right and I call it back along the same direction before I feel an emotion or something. I have become attached to the visual image.

Sayadaw: It’s normal for the mind to conceptualize its experience. When the mind does this, there are 2 parts that are happening – there’s the reality of what is happening and there’s the conceptualizing/visualizing of what is happening.

Let the visualization continue while in your awareness you try to stay with the intensity of the feeling. Recognize the intensity while the rest of the mind is doing the visualization – you just recognize the feeling as it increases and decreases.