Coaching practices for Choiceless Awareness How to
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- I keep straining to "get into" a meditative state like awareness is something I have to switch on and aim
- My days blur into "another morning, another Tuesday" and I move through them on autopilot, never really seeing the particular light or mood of this exact day
- When a feeling takes me over I become it completely
- I take every thought that crosses my mind as the literal truth of who I am and what’s real, so a harsh or anxious one just becomes my whole world
- I do the same everyday things
Practices that may help
- Glimpse practice: a 10-second recognition of aware space
Pause, drop the question "What am I aware of?" and simply notice that awareness is already on.
Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical - Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical
Non-dual awareness is a mode of consciousness in which attention is no longer exclusively identified with the contents of experience (thoughts, sensations, feelings) but rests as the open, aware space in which those contents appear. Loch Kelly’s "effortless mindfulness" approach uses short recognition exercises to shift into this mode; research on the broader open-monitoring family of practices finds reductions in anxiety and rumination, though non-dual awareness itself is a newer research area with limited controlled trials. - Cultivating a present-moment aesthetic
Train yourself to notice and appreciate the unrepeatable qualities of the present moment — light, weather, the texture of today.
Mono no Aware: The Pathos of Things - Notice the noticer: find the observing awareness
Shift attention from what you are noticing to the awareness that is doing the noticing.
The Witness Stance - Witnessing thoughts — observing without being them
Watch thoughts arise and pass without identifying with them — you are the awareness in which thoughts appear, not the thoughts themselves.
Open Monitoring Meditation, Made Practical - Single-task with full sensory attention as a beginner
Choose one ordinary task and perform it attending to each sensation as if doing it for the first time.
Beginner's Mind (Shoshin), Made Practical - Rest as the witness rather than in objects
Allow the inquiry to culminate in resting as the awareness that perceives, rather than in any object perceived.
Self-Inquiry: Ramana Maharshi’s Path of Direct Investigation - Beginner’s mind (shoshin)
Meet each moment without the overlay of expertise, expectation, or “I already know this.”
Zen Practice (Zazen and Beyond) - Notice the noticer
Find the part of you that is observing the thought — and recognize it is not the thought.
Self-as-Context (Observing Self), Made Practical - Welcome experience rather than manage it
Shift from trying to control or fix your experience to meeting it with open, allowing awareness.
Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Identity As Awareness
Experiment with "I am the aware space" rather than "I am my thoughts and feelings."
Shift identity from self-concept to awareness itself
- Awareness Itself Meditation
Pause, drop the question "What am I aware of?" and simply notice that awareness is already on.
Glimpse practice: a 10-second recognition of aware space
- Choiceless Awareness Meditation
Pause, drop the question "What am I aware of?" and simply notice that awareness is already on.
- Continuity Of Awareness
Pause, drop the question "What am I aware of?" and simply notice that awareness is already on.
- Continuous Present Awareness
Pause, drop the question "What am I aware of?" and simply notice that awareness is already on.
- Dual Awareness Practice
Non-dual awareness is a mode of consciousness in which attention is no longer exclusively identified with the contents of experience (thoughts, sensations, feelings) but rests as the open, aware space in which those contents appear. Loch Kelly’s "effortless mindfulness" approach uses short recognition exercises to shift into this mode; research on the broader open-monitoring family of practices finds reductions in anxiety and rumination, though non-dual awareness itself is a newer research area with limited controlled trials.
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