Coaching practices for Glimpse Practice Non Dual
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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 I meditate I close my eyes and sink into a private inner world, and then it never carries over into real life with my eyes open
- I’m kind and openhearted with the people I already love and quietly closed off to the ones who get under my skin, and I’m realizing that warmth that only flows toward easy people isn’t really the practice
- When I practice I’m just kind of doing it again and hoping it’s better, because I don’t actually have a clear picture in my head of what great is supposed to look like
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 - 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 - 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. - Practicing with eyes open and lowered
Keep eyes softly open and cast downward — in Zen, the open eye is the practicing eye.
Kinhin: Zen Walking Meditation - Always abide by the three principles
Maintain your vow, don’t show off, and practise impartially with everyone — not just the people you like.
Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training - Glimmers: Micro-Moments That Cue Safety
Glimmers are small, fleeting cues — a patch of sunlight, a warm tone of voice, a familiar smell — that the nervous system reads as signals of safety and connection. Coined by Deb Dana from Porges’s polyvagal framework, intentionally noticing glimmers trains the ventral vagal system toward regulation rather than defaulting to threat surveillance. - Build sharper mental representations
Develop a detailed internal model of what excellent performance looks like.
Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice - Transfer testing with novel instances
Periodically test your perceptual skill on examples you have never seen to verify genuine learning.
Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind - Jyoti dharana — holding the inner light
Visualise a steady inner flame at the space between the eyebrows and rest attention there.
Trataka: The Yoga Practice of Fixed-Gaze Meditation - Glimmer hunting
Deliberately scan your environment for small sensory cues that feel safe or pleasant.
Glimmers: Micro-Moments That Cue Safety
Related concerns
- Glimpse Practices
Glimmers are small, fleeting cues — a patch of sunlight, a warm tone of voice, a familiar smell — that the nervous system reads as signals of safety and connection. Coined by Deb Dana from Porges’s polyvagal framework, intentionally noticing glimmers trains the ventral vagal system toward regulation rather than defaulting to threat surveillance.
- Advaita Vedanta Practice
The karma yoga practitioner does not divide life into sacred and secular — every act done with full attention is practice.
Treat every act as an offering — however mundane
- 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
- 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.
- 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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