I wonder what 'noticing' is doing. It feels like separating out whatever is going on in my mind into a sort of scene, where I'm an observer choosing not to get carried away with the drama on stage. The effect is that the whole scene fades in intensity. The drama dissolves. Toward unity?
Weird how just a simple prompt like 'just notice' can do that. And weird how we can unthread our minds in different ways. In cases like this it's clearly for good, but I think what's normally called a 'shadow' is closely related, and that is obviously much more problematic.
I really wish I had a clearer understanding of the 'moves' available to my mind. Separating threads is one. Focusing or dilating attention and awareness as two different scopes of consciousness is another, which you obviously talk about a lot elsewhere. I hope to collect a whole bunch of these, worded to avoid too much woo. Your oasis is very fruitful in this regard!
I wonder what 'noticing' is doing. It feels like separating out whatever is going on in my mind into a sort of scene, where I'm an observer choosing not to get carried away with the drama on stage. The effect is that the whole scene fades in intensity. The drama dissolves. Toward unity?
Weird how just a simple prompt like 'just notice' can do that. And weird how we can unthread our minds in different ways. In cases like this it's clearly for good, but I think what's normally called a 'shadow' is closely related, and that is obviously much more problematic.
I really wish I had a clearer understanding of the 'moves' available to my mind. Separating threads is one. Focusing or dilating attention and awareness as two different scopes of consciousness is another, which you obviously talk about a lot elsewhere. I hope to collect a whole bunch of these, worded to avoid too much woo. Your oasis is very fruitful in this regard!