The Conscious MirrorAwareness
Awareness
How quickly meaning gets added to what happens.
Awareness in this course is not a mood of constant vigilance. It is the ability to see that a meaning has been added, and to notice what that meaning does to the next piece of information you take in.
The aim is not to replace an uncomfortable interpretation with a pleasant one. A more flattering story can be just as unexamined. The aim is room for a more accurate view, including the possibility that the first interpretation was right.
Objective. Distinguish observations from assumptions, and recognize when the information is still incomplete.
About 33 minutes across 3 lessons. Available now.
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The Space Between Event and Meaning
People respond to events and also to what those events appear to mean.
Name an ordinary event separately from the meaning attached to it.
About 10 min
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The First Explanation
How an initial interpretation changes what you notice next.
See how a first explanation selects the next evidence.
About 11 min
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Seeing Without Immediately Deciding
Hold an ambiguous situation without choosing a final explanation.
Identify what is observable, inferred, and unknown in a neutral example.
About 12 min
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Transcript
Pauses in a script are marked. Read at your own pace.
People often respond not only to what happens, but to what it seems to mean.
A delayed reply, a changed plan, a quieter lunch, an unread message. Each of these is an event. The story about it can arrive so quickly that the event and the story feel like the same thing.
The story may be accurate. It may be only partly accurate. It may be protecting you from something real.
The practice here is to notice that a meaning was added, and to see what is still unknown.