Monday, July 27, 2015

Noting Style Meditation in 15 Seconds

This comes in part from a stripped down version of noting practice that Jud Brewer, a neuroscientist, mentioned using with research subjects in the fMRI machine.  Apparently it worked decently in terms of aligning brain activity with what has been observed in advanced meditators.  Okay, start your timers:

Notice what is roughly predominate in awareness and label it, about once per second, as either seeing, hearing, feeling, or thinking.  Or don't know.


That's it.

The structure there is based on the 5 basic sense "doors" plus thinking.  Within the 5 senses smelling and tasting have been dropped for simplicity and because those don't tend to come up that often in formal meditation.

Notice that "seeing" is the note even if your eyes are closed, if your attention is on the visual field.  Same for "hearing" even if what you are hearing is imagined.





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