Awareness Games: Playing with Your Mind to Create Joy

It’s not something you have to learn to do. It’s already doing itself. You simply notice it.

Future Fishing Let your mind wander. Let it go where it will. And it will. Think of your mind as a stream that passes in front of you. Imagine you're fishing in that stream. But instead of fish, you're fishing for thoughts about the future. As soon as you catch a future thought, reel it in and pull it out of the thought stream. Maybe put it in a li

things work and certain other things don't work. We're experimenting—we're playing—we're stumbling—we're hoping to accidentally fall into this well because we're playing around it.

When this happens try this: Just for a few seconds, don't try to fix it or make it go away. Imagine the emotion is showing up in awareness. In other words, there's the emotion, and there's awareness of the emotion. Include more: What else is in awareness other than this nasty unwanted feeling? Sounds? Sights? Sensations? Other feelings? Thoughts?

Doing Their Best I love this one What if everyone in the world were doing the best that they possibly can? Including you. What if you were doing the best that you possibly can?

It's not about controlling experience, it's about experience itself. It's about a shift in identity from the content of awareness to awareness itself. It's not about what you're looking at, but about what's looking.

The (Your) Name Game Imagine your parents haven't given you a name yet. Who are you? Then imagine they give you a name and didn't tell you what it is. What does that have to do with you? Are you the same with or without the name? What if I had no name?

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When awareness is expanded as much as possible, include awareness itself.