Coaching practices for Continuous Present Awareness

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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
  • I’m hardly ever actually here
  • My attention is locked into this tight little tunnel
  • When a feeling takes me over I become it completely

Practices that may help

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Contact with the present moment
    Bring flexible attention to here and now, instead of being lost in past or future.
    Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Made Practical
  4. Expanding to panoramic awareness
    Deliberately widen attention from its usual narrow focal point to include the full field of sensory experience simultaneously.
    Open Monitoring Meditation, Made Practical
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Small glimpses, many times — the micro-dose delivery model
    Train non-dual awareness through many brief touches across the day rather than long sittings.
    Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical
  8. Feeling the inner body
    Sense the subtle aliveness inside the body as a stable anchor for presence.
    The Power of Now, In Practice
  9. Entering the present moment
    Drop attention out of past and future and into direct sensory contact with now.
    The Power of Now, In Practice
  10. Bring contemplative attention to ordinary moments
    Practice full presence in mundane activities as a form of sacred attentiveness.
    The Perennial Philosophy, Made Practical

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