Coaching practices for Dual Awareness Practice
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- I keep straining to "get into" a meditative state like awareness is something I have to switch on and aim
- Whatever I touch in my morning sit completely evaporates the second real life starts, and the calm stays locked in "meditation time"
- When a feeling takes me over I become it completely
- My attention is locked into this tight little tunnel
- I’ll surface from a meditation realizing I drifted off ten minutes ago and was completely gone the whole time
Practices that may help
- 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. - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Develop introspective metacognition
Train the ability to notice, in real time, when attention has wandered — before you’ve been distracted for a long time.
Shamatha: The Buddhist Practice of Calm Abiding - Grounding through sensory anchors while walking
Anchor attention to one or two specific sensory channels — foot contact, sounds, or peripheral vision — as a steady returning point.
Walking Meditation, Made Practical - Drop from head-based thinking to open, embodied awareness
Shift location of identity from the chattering mind to the open space of the whole body.
Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical - Right mindfulness — the four foundations of awareness
Practise systematic awareness of body, feeling-tones, mind states, and dharmas as the core of satipatthana.
The Noble Eightfold Path as a Practical Life Framework - 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
Related concerns
- Meta Awareness Practice
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
- Mono No Aware Sensory Practice
Mono no aware (もののあわれ) — often translated as "the pathos of things" or "the ah-ness of things" — is an 18th-century Japanese aesthetic concept identified by Motoori Norinaga. It describes a bittersweet sensitivity to impermanence: the emotional resonance that arises when you fully feel both the beauty of something and its transience simultaneously. As a practice it is not melancholy but a heightened, compassionate attunement to the passing nature of all experience.
- Sensory Awareness Practice
Practise systematic awareness of body, feeling-tones, mind states, and dharmas as the core of satipatthana.
Right mindfulness — the four foundations of awareness
- Bare 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.
- Meta Awareness Training
Pause, drop the question "What am I aware of?" and simply notice that awareness is already on.
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