Coaching practices for I've Had Glimpses of a Deep Stillness Underneath All the Mental Noise a Kind of Bare Awareness That's Just Quietly Here and I Want a Way to Turn Toward That Aware Presence Itself Rather Than Getting Endlessly Caught in the Contents Passing Through it

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• I’ve had glimpses of a deep stillness underneath all the mental noise, a kind of bare awareness that’s just quietly here
• I keep straining to "get into" a meditative state like awareness is something I have to switch on and aim
• In a still moment I sometimes catch a glimpse of just being the space everything is happening in, not the things happening
• My mind feels like it’s running nonstop with no rest, and I’m desperate for even a moment of inner quiet
• I live almost entirely in my head, totally cut off from the neck down, and when I try to get present I just end up thinking about being present

Practices that may help

1. Practice inquiry into the ground of your experience
   Investigate the aware presence that underlies all mental content as a way of touching the real.
   The Perennial Philosophy, Made Practical
2. 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
3. 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
4. Resting in the gap between thoughts
   Notice the small silences between thoughts and let attention settle there.
   The Power of Now, In Practice
5. Feeling the inner body
   Sense the subtle aliveness inside the body as a stable anchor for presence.
   The Power of Now, In Practice
6. Resting in the seat of awareness
   Settle back into the center of consciousness that is simply aware, behind all experience.
   The Untethered Soul, In Practice
7. 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
8. 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
9. Recognize aware presence within strong emotion
   When a strong emotion arises, shift to noticing the awareness in which the emotion appears rather than being swept by it.
   Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical
10. 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

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