a shift in focus from object to subject, from what's noticed to what's noticing

No Memory / No Imagination What do you know without memory or imagination? Ask yourself: If I don't go to memory, what do I know? Ask yourself: If I don't go to imagination, what do I know?

Subject / Object Swap

Contract your awareness down to one thing: a toe; a thought. Expand to include more and more of what you are aware of. Play with expanding and contracting—how small can you contract to? How large can you expand to? How fast or slow can you expand and contract? Go back and forth. Fiddle with it. Play with 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

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?

Could I Not Be Aware? Play with this: Is it possible to not be aware? To not be aware of anything? Do you need to actively choose to be aware? Are you ever not aware? The idea of this game is to see if you have to do awareness, or if it does itself.

Looking Out Through Other People's Eyes Walk around the streets of your city or town. Start by imagining yourself looking outwards from behind your eyes. Get a sense of what it's like to be "me looking at them." Then randomly select a person and imagine looking out through his or her eyes. Imagine what it's like to be that person's mind looking out

Imagine that everything in your awareness, including your body, is all part of the same TV picture. When you move about, the screen isn't physically moving, it's just changing color and brightness in the spot where you were and in the spot where you're moving to.