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Breathwork
- Learn to pay close attention to your breath, letting sounds and sensations pass
- Follow your breath from beginning to end, and recognize the process of thinking
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Thought
- Experiment with mental noting ( labeling memory, emotion, language, rationale, decisions ) while connecting your attention to your breath.
- Use your attention as a flash light to focus on different parts of your body.
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Perception
- Notice raw sensations ( tingling, air flow, temperature, gravity ) in your body, and let everything be as it is
- Focus on the sound around you and let them be objects of awareness.
- Recognize any discomfort in your body, and experiment with not moving.
- Pay special attention to your thoughts, while including all other sensations.
- Notice your visual field ( light, shadows, colors ). Examine various objects in your feild and see if they are separate. Recognize your position in space.
- Explore the space behind your eyes and refrain from identifying with thought.
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Emotion
- Discover how thoughts and strong emotions can alter your experience.
- Provoke a negative thought and see what happens.
- Learn how to change the feeling tone of experience.
- Feel compassion for your self, for your loved ones, and for the people who have wronged you or are in disagreement with.
- Learn to accept things as they are and gain freedom in each moment.
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Identity
- Explore your awareness of sensations, and notice how they arise and pass away.
- Notice how thoughts, sensations and sounds appear all on their own.
- Consider the possibility that there is no "you" in the center of experience
- Practice with your eyes open and drop and identification with thought.
- Notice the feeling of being inside your own head, and see if that's truly your point of view.
- Connect with all sensations and practice choiceless awareness.
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End notes.
- Pay attention to the cloud of physical sensations and look for yourself.
- Practice looking for the "self" and notice subject-object duality.
- Look for the thinker and let all thoughts pass away.
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