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This section covers the various locations (or themes) you might visit on your mindfulness journeys.
As part of your mindfulness activity, you could spend time contemplating a single location theme or a combination of themes.
You can also undertake a journey within a single location by widening or narrowing your focus.
This page provides an overview of each location and the type of awareness developed there.
Each location or theme has two aspects:
A being (Be) aspect (yin) which focuses on stillness and the current state
A doing (Do) aspect (yang) which focuses on movement and change over time
Contemplation of each aspect can take two forms:
A receptive form (yin) which is about not judgemental noticing
An active form (yang) which is about concentrating your attention in a particular way
Each location has it's own sub-page which provides some ideas on what you might explore there. In each location, I have provided three prompts or mantras for each aspect.
A question to direct your awareness (receptive).
An exhortation towards a particular state or states (active).
A pair of seemingly contradictory statements about your connection to the location which you may contemplate sequentially or concurrently with the aim of dissolving the contradiction.
More on how yin and yang are incorporated into various aspects of the mindfulness wheel.
Basal themes
Basal themes
Body (BBe) — Developing awareness of information from your body (interoception and proprioception).
Acting (BDo) — Developing awareness of information about the movement of your body in space and your physical actions (kinesthesia).
External pathway themes
External pathway themes
Senses (Ex1Be) — Developing awareness of sensory stimuli from outside your body (exteroception).
Attending (Ex1Do) — Developing awareness of what you are attending to and how you are focusing your attention.
Environment (Ex2Be) — Developing awareness of aspects of your immediate environment and the world around you.
Occurring (Ex2Do) — Developing awareness of events and changes in your environment and your relationship to it.
People (Ex3Be) — Developing awareness of other people as individuals or groups and your connection to them.
Interacting (Ex3Do) — Developing awareness of the dynamics and relationships between people.
Internal pathway themes
Internal pathway themes
Feelings (In1Be) — Developing awareness of your own emotional states.
Motivating (In1Do) — Developing awareness of your needs, goals, intentions, desires or drivers.
Mind (In2Be) — Developing awareness of how you are representing phenomena in your mind and in communication (contents).
Thinking (In2Do) — Developing awareness of your own thought processes (metacognition).
Knowledge (In3Be) — Developing awareness of what we know and the way we attribute coherence to the world and ourselves (epistemology).
Believing (In3Do) — Developing awareness of the values, philosophies and worldviews that provide our sense of purpose.
Apical themes
Apical themes
Oneness (ABe) — Developing awareness of the essential interconnectedness of all things.
Transcending (ADo) — Developing awareness beyond the limitations of your current existence.
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