The time to close retreat also means time to open boundaries. Retreat ends, but your awareness doesn’t. Always move forward in a way that keeps you alive and progressing.
Practicing directing kindness towards ourselves by first connecting with our ability to receive kindness from other and then connecting with our own goodness.
Bodily feeling is an accurate read out of mental formations. It helps us detect kammic effects that arise and move us to action. Embodiment gives a way of discharging. The mind jumps over things that the body doesn’t.
One-pointedness, ekaggata, is a later development. The first aim is to get settled, to meet and dispel crankiness, negativity, craving. One-pointedness arrives after these are dispelled.