Coaching practices for Wide Field Awareness
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Wide Field Awareness, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- My attention is locked into this tight little tunnel
- When I’m stressed I get tunnel-vision
- When a big emotion hits, it becomes the whole world
- I keep straining to "get into" a meditative state like awareness is something I have to switch on and aim
- I’m so buried in the day-to-day firefighting that I just react to whatever’s loudest, and I never get high enough above it to see the pattern underneath
Practices that may help
- 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 - Activate peripheral vision to shift from threat mode to open-awareness
Soften your gaze and expand awareness to the periphery — this neurologically shifts the eyes from predator focus to safety scan.
The Orienting Response, Made Practical - 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 - 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 - Get on the balcony
Regularly step back from the action to see the system — not just your corner of it.
Adaptive Leadership, 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 - 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 - Open Monitoring Meditation, Made Practical
Open monitoring meditation (also called choiceless awareness or open presence) is the practice of resting in an expansive, receptive awareness without directing attention at any single object — observing whatever arises in experience without preferring or pursuing any of it. It complements focused-attention practices and is associated with different neural signatures in contemplative neuroscience. Direct outcome evidence is limited compared to focused-attention methods. - Advanced noting — noting the act of noting itself
Turn attention to the process of noting itself, observing who is doing the labeling and whether the "noter" is also a mental event.
Noting Practice, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Non Dual Awareness During A Big Change
When a strong emotion arises, shift to noticing the awareness in which the emotion appears rather than being swept by it.
Recognize aware presence within strong emotion
- Open Field Awareness
Deliberately widen attention from its usual narrow focal point to include the full field of sensory experience simultaneously.
Expanding to panoramic awareness
- Awareness Already Here
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
- Meta Awareness Practice
Pause, drop the question "What am I aware of?" and simply notice that awareness is already on.
- Non Dual Awareness
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.
- Non Dual Awareness As A Caregiver
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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