My experience with working with open focus exercises is that they lead to a much more relaxed body by minimizing the mind grip of experience through all the senses.
I have done various kinds of meditations over the years focusing on clearing emotional and karmic blockages which have lead to some level of equanimity but I still had bursts of anger sometimes.
This anger was fueled by tension in the body which the mind wouldn't let go of.
It seems open focus exercises work with another aspect of one's "configuration" of self.
The open focus approach is to focus on space and the relation to all the senses. In that regard it reminds me of Dzogchen and sky gazing though open focus is more focused in its approach to release different areas of the body.
yes, joe - my experience is similar to yours. predictably, some folks get very defensive (and offensive) when formerly esoteric spiritual practices are made available (and easily learnable) by a clinical psychologist from New Jersey (Les Fehmi, author of the Open-Focus Brain -- but you probably know this). Loch Kelly is doing essentially the same thing through his book Shift Into Freedom, teaching techniques that are essentially the same as dzogchen but with far less woo -- more woo than Les Fehmi, but not nearly as much rigamarole as some Purists prefer. Peace, Dan
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