Starting the feeling exercise I also had this issue with what is there if I don’t label the feeling. I found that if I could avoid allowing words in my mind for even a moment that some other sense of the feeling would start to emerge. This seems to correlate with what Paul says in the course about feelings being what thoughts spring from.
Also, looking for any sensation in my body will often point me to a non-verbal (without words in my mind) shard of the feeling that automatically expands to enough to run with in the rest of the exercise.
Our conscious minds often have such an invisible, iron grip on our experience that it takes a little trick to get it out of the way long enough for other processes of mind to catch hold. I first experienced this with an art exercise from Betty Edwards where she instructs to turn an original line drawing upside down while attempting to render it. Upside down, the conscious mind (left brain) can’t call up its catalog of prefab shapes, leaving the right brain to connect perceived form with drawn form. The results are amazing.
