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Awareness of Awareness rambling thoughts
What keeps me up at night or what entertains me when other reasons (hormones, sugar, light/sound, etc.) keep me up at night is thinking bout awareness and what is aware of the thinking.... Relatefulness vs Circling
I've been discovering distinctions and felt-senses of Relatefulness that seem to differ from how I know Circling. My short catch phrase is: "If meditation is the art of being, and Circling is the art of being-with, then Relatefulness is the art of being-human-with." I like this,... Appreciation With Great Difficulty
(Originally published on substack. This was unusually scary and vulnerable to publish) There’s this Buddhist poem. I don’t know if it’s a poem. They say it’s “a set of contemplations.” It’s called “The Four Reminders,” and the first time I read it, it kicked me to the floor.... I wonder if it’s just because either We do a poor job at seeing ourselves so we don’t see the subtle accumulations. Metaphor would be doing a big house clean and then going, "Well the house is clean, I don’t have to clean it again, maybe ever this time".... How can meta-awareness be trained? Any ideas?
So I’m trying to purposefully train my meta-awareness. One thing that’s hard about it is I want to be seen as super meta-aware and so I hide how I’m not. My current training method: Catching flies with fly paper.... - Fooljeff...
Crawling towards enlightenment:
I thought my son was close to crawling months ago. He slowly gets a tiny bit closer every day. Up on his knees and hands right now, he rocks back and forth and then collapses forward, propelling him far enough to reach the toy. He has no real example of how to crawl.... One thing I notice about Circling, if person A offers person B something, person A is (at least culturally) more likely to ask, "What's underneath it for you?", as if they're asking, "What's this cocaine cut with?" It's rarely believed in Circling if the underneath isn't... - josefine...
Providing environments for learning
Imagine you’re attending a meditation workshop and the facilitator invites you to lean into stillness. After a few seconds, they start giving cues on how to be still, one after another, followed by reading a passage from a book about meditation, and then it ends.... But one thing is for sure...you are Brave! I just published about a week ago an article on discouragement and your post made me pull it out and read it again, making sure I was doing what I had advised my readers to do.... - onYesterday, during our tango lesson, I was feeling out of sync dancing with my wife. Our teacher shared that it was because I was moving ahead of her. I was focused more on executing the steps rather than being completely present with her and moving together. When I included her in my awareness and focused on being connected in motion, it felt so much better!byrenee...
So cool to hear your teacher talk about transitions too! I also got so much from the Open Focus book. Your words on giving more attention to the space that connects everything gives me energy. Like that’s where the intelligence of connection lives.... NEW VERSION: Beyond Inner Work: Relational Awareness and the Practice of Relateful
Beyond Inner Work: Relational Awareness and the Practice of Relateful -Personal development trains inner awareness. Relatefulness trains relational awareness.... - CoachWebb13...
As far as the second question: I know what I want when I can't stop thinking about it. Unfortunately for a long time I knew more about what I didn't want. When I learned about the law of attraction I started to state & focus on what I DO want. Honestly sometimes I don't know.... Love this reply! Thanks! I would agree that feeling the energy of anger is very difficult. In meditation, people talk about that being the hardest energy to meditate on.... From Intensify Bot: "Thanks for sharing the doc — I’ll read it. Could you briefly summarize the A: core Relateful practice steps and B: any evidence or participant outcomes you’ve observed?" While different facilitators may describe the process in slightly different ways, the... This can be very tricky. In my experience body led has a clean feel to it. It is the voice in the quiet still place inside. That voice in the stillness will continue to "ring true" no matter how loud other responses are- conditioned responses telling you not to listen to your... Yeah I was also thinking about the Jhanas. Tommy in case you haven't heard of them, Brian talks a little about going to a reatreat here, but I think a lot of the techniques are specifically about cultivating these self-reinforcing loops of goodness....