A bit of time spent in learning alternatives to those habit patterns is time well invested. Most human beings spend all their energies devising ways to increase their pleasure and decrease their pain. Buddhism does not advise that you see such activity altogether. Money and security are fine. Pain should be avoided whenever possible. Nobody is telling you to give away every possession or seek out needless pain. But Buddhism does advise you to invest time and energy in learning to deal with unpleasantness, because some pain is unavoidable, unavoidable. When you see a truck bearing down on you, by all means jump out of the way. But spend some time in meditation to learning to deal with discomfort is the only way you'll be ready to handle the truck you didn't see. problems will arise in your practice. Some of them will be physical, some will be emotional, and some will be attitudinal. All of them can be confronted and each has its own specific response. All of them are opportunities to free yourself. Problem one, physical pain. Alright, I think I'm going to skip physical pain. Yeah, because there are a lot of other problems that I want to get through. And if I get through all the other problems, then we'll go back to physical pain. So let's go right to problem two legs going to sleep. Well, I'm going to skip that one too. but just to mention, you know, just a couple of things about legs falling asleep, chances are that if your legs are falling asleep, you're pinching your sciatic nerve. Okay, I can't say that for 100%. But that's my experience, I had numbness in the legs for a while. And it was from sitting and pinching my sciatic nerve. So a couple of solutions to that is you might be sitting too far back on your cushion. So you're cutting off that circulation. So it's always ideal to sit on the front third of your cushion. So not too far back. Another thing you can try is to get more, get some extra support underneath your cushion, get some height there, you know, and that kind of, you can kind of what I often do if I'm sitting cross legged, is a lift myself, I'm sitting cross legged on the cushion, and I'll kind of lift my butt up into the air and then sit back down on the front third of the cushion and connect my sitting bones onto the cushion. So it's good to connect your sitting bones you can actually feel him there and your but to have those sitting bones connected onto the cushion. So you know, that's just a couple of tricks. You know, if your legs continually falling asleep, then there's a problem that you have to adjust. But you know, every once in a while my leg falls asleep. And yeah, it just I adjust my posture a little bit and Bob's your uncle. All right legs going to sleep. Next problem, three odd sensations Makia. molecule for those who don't know is that Japanese word which means all sensory phenomenon that we might experience you know, it could be hallucinations, it could be auditory, it could be texture on the body. Some people are really prone to it, and some people are not and everyone in between. Everything in between that is all right. People experience all manner of varied phenomena and meditation. Some people get itches. Others feel tingling, deep relaxation, a feeling of lightness or a floating sensation. You may feel yourself growing or shrinking, or rising up in the air. Beginners often get quite excited over such sensations. Don't worry, you are not likely to levitate anytime soon. As realization sets in the nervous systems start again. As relaxation sets in the nervous system simply begins to pass sensory signals more efficiently. Large amount of large amounts of previously blocked sensory data can pour through giving rise to all kinds of unique sensations. So fascinating. You have never actually read it quite that way. Large amounts of previously blocked sensory data can pour through giving rise to all kinds of unique sensations. It does not signify anything in particular, it is just sensation. So simply employ the normal technique should come up and watch it pass away. Don't get involved.