The four core drills in Training 5 are enough to continue.
These additional drills give you more ways to explore Attention, Input and Response when something is already happening but its development still feels difficult to follow.
You don’t need to complete them all.
Choose the drill that addresses what you want to understand.
Begin with an established, recognisable Response.
Notice where the sensation is most apparent.
Then gradually widen your Attention to include the surrounding area and, eventually, more of your body.
Don’t try to push the sensation outward.
The original sensation may remain localised.
It may deepen.
Other sensations may appear alongside it.
Several Responses may even become noticeable at the same time.
None of these outcomes is inherently better.
Wider isn’t necessarily better. Expansion is about how the Response develops — not how much of your body becomes involved.
Begin with an established Response.
Notice where your Attention naturally settles.
If another sensation becomes more prominent, allow your Attention to follow it rather than repeatedly returning to the original location.
The apparent centre of the experience may move.
It may remain where it started.
It may become difficult to locate at all.
You are not trying to make sensation travel through the body.
Let the Response choose its own shape.
Begin when a Response is already established.
Notice how much deliberate Input you are providing.
Reduce that Input slightly.
Then wait long enough to see what happens.
Does the Response continue?
Does it change?
Does it weaken?
If reducing Input disrupts what was happening, return to a small, comfortable contribution.
The objective is not to achieve zero Input.
Discover how little support the Response actually needs.
Allow a recognisable Response to develop.
When you feel the urge to change something — increase Input, adjust Position, tighten, move or otherwise help — notice the urge before acting on it.
Wait briefly.
Sometimes an adjustment really is useful.
Make it if you need it.
But sometimes the urge appears simply because something exciting, unfamiliar or promising is happening.
If the adjustment is no longer necessary, leave it unfinished.
Not every urge to help needs to become an action.
Begin with an established Response.
Notice what happens as its intensity changes.
If it becomes stronger, resist automatically increasing your contribution.
If it becomes quieter, resist immediately trying to restore it.
The Response may rise.
It may soften.
It may rise again.
Its character may change completely.
Let your own reactions become smoother while the Response is free to fluctuate.
Expansion does not have to mean continuously getting stronger.
Begin with a gentle, recognisable Response.
Instead of asking whether it is becoming stronger, notice what it is actually like.
Rhythmic.
Continuous.
Localised.
Warm.
Pulsing.
Diffuse.
Allow the experience to continue without deliberately changing your Input.
Then compare.
Perhaps it became warmer without becoming stronger.
Perhaps an intermittent rhythm became more continuous.
Perhaps one sensation became quieter while another appeared.
Perhaps the Response deepened while remaining in exactly the same place.
Or perhaps nothing noticeably changed.
That is useful information too.
Expansion can be a change in quality, continuity, location or complexity — not just intensity.
You don’t need to complete every drill.
Return to the exercises that help you recognise how an established Response develops without unnecessary interference, and leave the others alone.
Over time, Expand should require less directing, less chasing and less effort — not more.
Notice the development. Give it room. Let the body choose what happens next.
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