Discovering Natural Phenomena Basic
Basic
- Be aware of common phenomena in your body and mind such as breathing sensations, other body sensations, likes, dislikes, thoughts and others.
Breath
- Be aware of cool and warm sensations of your breath in the nose.
- Be aware of rising and falling sensations of your breath in the belly area.
- Be aware of your in-breath as in-breath and out-breath as out-breath.
- Be aware of your breath and your whole body.
- Breathing in to calm your whole body and breathing out to calm your whole body.
- Be aware of your breath and everything you are experiencing in the present moment.
Breath 2
- Be aware of types of breath (, e.g. pleasant breath, unpleasant breath, short breath, long breath, shallow breath, deep breath, easy breath, difficult breath, energizing breath, relaxed breath, or tight breath).
- Be aware of your breathing experience as it is in the present moment.
- Be aware of constant change in your breath (or in the present moment).
- Just be with your breath.
Motion
- Be aware of your body movement.
- Be aware of changes in your sight. (e.g. appearing and disappearing phenomena in your sight while walking)
Body
- Notice tension or the absence of tension in the body.
- Notice pressure or the absence.
- Notice cool sensation or the absence.
- Notice warm sensation or the absence.
- Notice itchiness or the absence.
- Notice pain or the absence.
- Notice unpleasant sensations or the absence.
- Notice pleasant sensations or the absence.
- Notice neutral sensations.
- Notice posture of your body.
- Notice sensations in each body part.
- Notice your whole body.
Mental Phenomena
- Notice liking or absence.
- Notice disliking or absence.
- Notice wanting or absence.
- Notice believing or absence.
- Notice remembering or absence.
- Notice planing or absence.
- Notice perceiving or absence.
- Notice thinking or absence.
- Notice anger or absence.
- Notice satisfaction or absence.
- Notice peace or absence.
- Notice goodwill or absence.
- Notice illwill or absence.
- Notice multiple perspective or absence.
- Notice being on autopilot or absence.
- Notice joy or absence
- Notice contradiction or absence
- Notice fear or absence.
- Notice selfishness or absence.
- Notice consciousness or absence.
- Notice motivation or absence.
- Notice reaction or absence.
- Notice other mental phenomana or absence
Mind
- Be aware of mind with wants or mind without wants.
- Be aware of mind with thoughts or mind without thoughts.
- Be aware of content mind or mind without contentment.
- Be aware of joyful mind or mind without joy.
Mind 2
- Be aware of mind with anger or mind without anger.
- Be aware of mind liking something or mind without liking. (also disliking)
- Be aware of mind with illwill or mind without illwill. (also goodwill)
- Be aware of dissatisfied mind or mind without dissatisfaction.
- Be aware of restless mind or mind without restlessness.
- Be aware of mind believing something or mind without believing. (also disbelieving)
- Be aware of mind being stuck or mind not being stuck.
- Be aware of mind contradicting or mind without contradiction.
- Be aware of reliable mind or mind that is not reliable.
- Be aware of liberated mind or mind without liberation.
Breath 3
- Be aware of your breath and your mind.
- Breathing in to calm your mind and breathing out to calm your mind.
- Be aware of your mind that is aware of your breath.