"You should start by very literally just paying attention to your actual physical sensations."
My problem is I don't get those sensations associated with emotions! I didn't know everybody else did until I went through an exceptionally stressful time which for whatever reason allowed me to feel those things for the first time. Then bam- gone again.
There's a lovely example of how skill acquisition changes how you perceive the world in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd_UcjMusUA Expert jazz drummer Larnell Lewis, who has listened to very little metal in general, hears the song "Enter Sandman" by Metallica for the first time and then plays it back near-flawlessly. For our purposes the interesting part is the first half, where you can see him breaking down the song based on his existing knowledge of percussion and song structure. After a while he starts air-drumming along, predicting (pretty accurately, AFAICT) where the song is going to go. When he comes to perform the song for real, he only has to remember a much smaller set of surprising parts, and for me (as a non-musician) it was as interesting seeing what surprised him as it was seeing what he was able to predict.
"You should start by very literally just paying attention to your actual physical sensations."
My problem is I don't get those sensations associated with emotions! I didn't know everybody else did until I went through an exceptionally stressful time which for whatever reason allowed me to feel those things for the first time. Then bam- gone again.
There's a lovely example of how skill acquisition changes how you perceive the world in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd_UcjMusUA Expert jazz drummer Larnell Lewis, who has listened to very little metal in general, hears the song "Enter Sandman" by Metallica for the first time and then plays it back near-flawlessly. For our purposes the interesting part is the first half, where you can see him breaking down the song based on his existing knowledge of percussion and song structure. After a while he starts air-drumming along, predicting (pretty accurately, AFAICT) where the song is going to go. When he comes to perform the song for real, he only has to remember a much smaller set of surprising parts, and for me (as a non-musician) it was as interesting seeing what surprised him as it was seeing what he was able to predict.