Aware by Dan Siegle Notes
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Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence--The
Groundbreaking Meditation Practice
by Daniel J. Siegel
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Learning this skill of distinguishing awareness from that which you are aware of will enable you to expand the container of consciousness and empower you to “taste” so much more than just a salty glass of water.
aware plus aware of
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passive victim stance and for others may be an active angrily fighting back state.
I bet there are .more than 2 states
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What Teresa needed was to shift from being reactive to becoming receptive
receptive so you can choose next action
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familiar knowns of fighting, fleeing, freezing, and even fainting,
familiar tools
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Where attention goes, neural firing flows, and neural connection grows.
attention matters
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Having an awakened mind means using the mental processes of attention, awareness, and intention to activate new states of mind that, with repeated practice, can become intentionally sculpted traits in a person’s life.
think, look and focus - see what is there
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When that trait is an integrated mind, this means that we can move from automatic reactivity without choice to the freedom of responsiveness with choice.
more freedom to choose what you want
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The hub of the Wheel represents the knowing of awareness and is the source of receptive consciousness, of being open and available to connect to anything arising on the rim and not becoming lost or stuck on that rim, consumed by the knowns of life.
becoming aware of what you are thinking about
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Sadly, many of us learn to be wary of others, and even of our own inner life, and the resulting prison of our own mental adaptations to survive creates a belief that we are helpless to make a change.
wary of ourselves
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Studies using meditative interventions had found that training the mind in these ways of focused attention, open awareness, and kind intention could have many benefits, among them not only the reduction of the subjective experience of pain but also an objective diminishment of the representation of pain within the brain.
focused attention, open awareness, kind intention
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With practice, you’ll be enriching not only your attentional skills, but your experience of consciousness and of the mind itself.
try the book : slowly, attentively
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being more open and letting go of judgment and anticipation expands our awareness of all the vicissitudes of life. fearlessly aware, confidently aware
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Feelings are not a side component of a life well lived; they are essential ways we live as a whole, embodied being.
feelings are basic
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my behavior is no longer under my conscious control.
wanting overrides consciousness
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You can be grateful for what you enjoy, not longing for what you are missing.
learning fine-grained parts of myself
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Nature is far more inventive than is human imagination, and the microscopic world is not what Niels Bohr or anyone else could have guessed.
truth is stranger
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We will honor the controversy, and explore possibilities rather than assert absolutes.
polite delicate language
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Bohr’s idea was that we have to change our idea of understanding the world into an idea of understanding our relation with the world.”*
sounds like Victor Frankel
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A third finding from quantum physics is that entanglement, as mentioned earlier, has been established as a real, empirically proven aspect of our world.
puzzle!
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What you practice with intention creates a repeated state that will then become a trait that can work in the background without your effort or conscious energy.
practice iintentionally
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A key issue in the brain’s memory system is that when retrieved from storage, pure implicit memory is not tagged as being from the past.
yikes! I'm back in that horror !