Since the first time I discovered you over a year ago, the response within has been a resounding "YES". I have a deck of Koan Kards. The one saying "Be comfortable not knowing" is so spot on for me that I taped it to my computer screen. It has become a new filter through which I perceive daily events. A lifetime habit of perpetual worry is quickly vanishing. The strategy you lay out in this video feels so right for me that I 100% will do it for 28 days. Thank you so much!
Beautiful. Allowing/following attention into the context of content, and allowing the decontextualization of context as it is followed into the often flimsy structures that have held it as if it was solid/important/required. Or however that might be said. 😂
This is interesting because as someone with Aspberger's, I have to - by default - put this level of attention into how someone is reacting in a conversation in order to overcome my lack of "theory of mind" or ability to judge how someone is feeling. But if I lack context (knowing how they typically react or behave) it becomes very hard to draw any meaningful conclusions and it becomes 100% guesswork, which I invariably get wrong to a significant degree. So I actually have to guard against getting too "zeroed in" with this process and keep asking questions that help the other person to confirm or reject the assumptions I am making. It's exhausting 😅 but I think it also helps me avoid creating false narratives.
I would absolutely love to learn more about how this shows up for you. It definitely sounds like you already engage much in this way already. Thank you for illustrating both pros and cons as well! 🙏💗
@@So-Awake- It's funny because until I discovered I was autistic, which was this year, it's something that I did without even really realizing I was doing it. It has been since I discovered I had Asperger's that I started to actually analyze some of these things and figure out why I do what I do. These are all things that I previously thought everyone did, and the discovery that it is not was pretty eye-opening. In fact, I find a lot of times that people who are neurotypical will do exactly what you describe and start crafting a narrative, and making the evidence fit, but get it completely wrong...all because they assume their intuition or empathic abilities are flawless. But then again, it can also lead to me being completely clueless about how someone is reacting to me, if I'm not paying close attention. So this is one of the ways in which my mindfulness practice has evolved since finding out I had asperger's.
I don't feel able to do any of this. Trapped in thought, to a degree I don't know how to change. Like, I can't even look at a single thought. Mind always starts wandering, shifting into a dream-like state, whenever I try to stay present. I feel like I have some more success (or a calmer mind) on a little bit of weed, and my previous ADHD medication helped (stimulants), but now I can't take stimulants anymore, and I never hear anyone in the nondual spaces -- who seems serious -- recommend cannabis, so I fear it may ultimately be more of a hindrance than help, even if it seems otherwise. I do go "oh this is a thought" whenever I recognize it as such, but it seems that I can't just keep at it without feeling like I'm trying to force something that doesn't want to. My easily distracted, stimulation-seeking brain doesn't seem to want to comply. Any advice? I don't feel like a retreat is possible for me within the next few years, as I'm just starting out in a degree at an applied university and have to find a (new) job to keep me above water, else I fall below the poverty-line again. I spent the last decade with undiagnosed, severe sleep apnea which made it impossible for me to finish a higher education or hold down a job, until very recently... I want to finally get into a position where I'm not in immediate danger of running out of money or having to work a job which I despise... Still, I find myself suffering a lot, my body inactive. Mentally better than in the past (restorative sleep is incredibly valuable) but no energy or initiative do actually "make something of my life". I want to clean my flat, like the floors and the bathroom, but I find my body not complying and my mind wandering. I know this won't be fixed by bettering my education and economic situation, but I definitely gotta do that too. I don't know if it can be changed by spiritual seeking either, but better understanding myself has got to go at least some way...
Hi Josh - Have been following you here and there via Angelo the past year or so, but havent been following consistently. This was the first video of yours I've watched in a while. Though I felt like I might be missing some context, no pun intended, in regards to how this approach may or may not fit in with other things you share or overall approach, but nonetheless I find this really practical and something I want to explore more. I still feel a bit confused about how I should go about things in general. Coming from a western Mindfulness/Vipassana approach that blended into Dzogchen, then lead to Advaita (Maharshi/Nisargadatta), leading into Angelo and some Rupert Spira (all of the above still relavant to me and my practice)...I've found a 'resting in awareness' type practices to really hit home...since I started that practice in a more Buddhist setting which didn't incorporate a kind of verbal self inquiry like "who am I?"...whenever I try those inquiries, I feel like they take me to the open awareness space that I was already "getting to" without the verbal inquiry, and have heard Angelo say if that's where the inquiry takes you just stay there - I still try and use the inquries just in case there's something to them that works some magic that just dropping into an open awareness doesn't - I still feel like I'm not sure what the point of the inquiry is and if I should just keep doing it in hopes of the "magic" lol to kick in. Any advice on how I'm stuck or if I'm stuck here? Secondly, more closely related to this video, while still working towards that first shift, I sometimes wonder if just meditating with inquiry, "where am I?" is most common, that tends to lead me to an open awareness space, but in hopes of it leading to a shift - if I'm not bypassing the repressed emotions that are surely at the core of my increasingly constant and nagging anxiety, stress, chest and throat pain tighness and discomfort. This video seems like a good way to approach those repressed emotions. If so, how do you recommend incorporating this into a daily practice? For example, inquiry and/or open awareness practice 1 day and this video's type of proactice the next?? I feel desparate for a daily routine recipe that a) leads in the direction of a shift and b) helps address the very real world emotional sufferring both before and after such a shift. Thank you and the whole crew for all you do, it's made quite a difference for me after years of Buddhist practice.
@@So-Awake- Thank you for the reply Josh. Intuition has been begging for it the past year tbh, but the empty wallet has been saying no lol. The long winded quesition above was my attept at a work around ; ) lol. Once that situation rectifies itself I will reach out for sure.
I will have to listen to this a number of times. This is not my style of teaching. I appreciate intellectualism, but I found this too intellectualized. I would have appreciated language that was less abstract, and would have found it more immediately useful. Just my take.
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Since the first time I discovered you over a year ago, the response within has been a resounding "YES". I have a deck of Koan Kards. The one saying "Be comfortable not knowing" is so spot on for me that I taped it to my computer screen. It has become a new filter through which I perceive daily events. A lifetime habit of perpetual worry is quickly vanishing. The strategy you lay out in this video feels so right for me that I 100% will do it for 28 days. Thank you so much!
Such a kind and genuine sharing! Thank you 🙏💗
Beautiful. Allowing/following attention into the context of content, and allowing the decontextualization of context as it is followed into the often flimsy structures that have held it as if it was solid/important/required. Or however that might be said. 😂
Allowing emptiness
So very grateful for this ❤❤❤
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This was really really great man, you are great at explaining practical steps. Thanks bro
Glad it was helpful!
Hi Josh,
Thanks for this. It sounds so clear to me, I will give it a shot to do this for 28 days !!!
Let us know how it goes!
Love this insightful video. Than you.
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Much appreciated!
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This is interesting because as someone with Aspberger's, I have to - by default - put this level of attention into how someone is reacting in a conversation in order to overcome my lack of "theory of mind" or ability to judge how someone is feeling. But if I lack context (knowing how they typically react or behave) it becomes very hard to draw any meaningful conclusions and it becomes 100% guesswork, which I invariably get wrong to a significant degree. So I actually have to guard against getting too "zeroed in" with this process and keep asking questions that help the other person to confirm or reject the assumptions I am making. It's exhausting 😅 but I think it also helps me avoid creating false narratives.
I would absolutely love to learn more about how this shows up for you. It definitely sounds like you already engage much in this way already. Thank you for illustrating both pros and cons as well! 🙏💗
@@So-Awake- It's funny because until I discovered I was autistic, which was this year, it's something that I did without even really realizing I was doing it. It has been since I discovered I had Asperger's that I started to actually analyze some of these things and figure out why I do what I do. These are all things that I previously thought everyone did, and the discovery that it is not was pretty eye-opening. In fact, I find a lot of times that people who are neurotypical will do exactly what you describe and start crafting a narrative, and making the evidence fit, but get it completely wrong...all because they assume their intuition or empathic abilities are flawless. But then again, it can also lead to me being completely clueless about how someone is reacting to me, if I'm not paying close attention. So this is one of the ways in which my mindfulness practice has evolved since finding out I had asperger's.
Very interesting strategy, definitely gonna try that!
Can be a very useful tool
"Here already by the time its noticed" 🔥
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I don't feel able to do any of this. Trapped in thought, to a degree I don't know how to change. Like, I can't even look at a single thought. Mind always starts wandering, shifting into a dream-like state, whenever I try to stay present.
I feel like I have some more success (or a calmer mind) on a little bit of weed, and my previous ADHD medication helped (stimulants), but now I can't take stimulants anymore, and I never hear anyone in the nondual spaces -- who seems serious -- recommend cannabis, so I fear it may ultimately be more of a hindrance than help, even if it seems otherwise.
I do go "oh this is a thought" whenever I recognize it as such, but it seems that I can't just keep at it without feeling like I'm trying to force something that doesn't want to. My easily distracted, stimulation-seeking brain doesn't seem to want to comply.
Any advice? I don't feel like a retreat is possible for me within the next few years, as I'm just starting out in a degree at an applied university and have to find a (new) job to keep me above water, else I fall below the poverty-line again. I spent the last decade with undiagnosed, severe sleep apnea which made it impossible for me to finish a higher education or hold down a job, until very recently... I want to finally get into a position where I'm not in immediate danger of running out of money or having to work a job which I despise...
Still, I find myself suffering a lot, my body inactive. Mentally better than in the past (restorative sleep is incredibly valuable) but no energy or initiative do actually "make something of my life". I want to clean my flat, like the floors and the bathroom, but I find my body not complying and my mind wandering. I know this won't be fixed by bettering my education and economic situation, but I definitely gotta do that too. I don't know if it can be changed by spiritual seeking either, but better understanding myself has got to go at least some way...
Have you seen a therapist?
Hi Josh -
Have been following you here and there via Angelo the past year or so, but havent been following consistently. This was the first video of yours I've watched in a while. Though I felt like I might be missing some context, no pun intended, in regards to how this approach may or may not fit in with other things you share or overall approach, but nonetheless I find this really practical and something I want to explore more.
I still feel a bit confused about how I should go about things in general. Coming from a western Mindfulness/Vipassana approach that blended into Dzogchen, then lead to Advaita (Maharshi/Nisargadatta), leading into Angelo and some Rupert Spira (all of the above still relavant to me and my practice)...I've found a 'resting in awareness' type practices to really hit home...since I started that practice in a more Buddhist setting which didn't incorporate a kind of verbal self inquiry like "who am I?"...whenever I try those inquiries, I feel like they take me to the open awareness space that I was already "getting to" without the verbal inquiry, and have heard Angelo say if that's where the inquiry takes you just stay there - I still try and use the inquries just in case there's something to them that works some magic that just dropping into an open awareness doesn't - I still feel like I'm not sure what the point of the inquiry is and if I should just keep doing it in hopes of the "magic" lol to kick in. Any advice on how I'm stuck or if I'm stuck here?
Secondly, more closely related to this video, while still working towards that first shift, I sometimes wonder if just meditating with inquiry, "where am I?" is most common, that tends to lead me to an open awareness space, but in hopes of it leading to a shift - if I'm not bypassing the repressed emotions that are surely at the core of my increasingly constant and nagging anxiety, stress, chest and throat pain tighness and discomfort. This video seems like a good way to approach those repressed emotions. If so, how do you recommend incorporating this into a daily practice? For example, inquiry and/or open awareness practice 1 day and this video's type of proactice the next??
I feel desparate for a daily routine recipe that a) leads in the direction of a shift and b) helps address the very real world emotional sufferring both before and after such a shift.
Thank you and the whole crew for all you do, it's made quite a difference for me after years of Buddhist practice.
I sense a session could be really useful. What does intuition say?
@@So-Awake- Thank you for the reply Josh. Intuition has been begging for it the past year tbh, but the empty wallet has been saying no lol. The long winded quesition above was my attept at a work around ; ) lol. Once that situation rectifies itself I will reach out for sure.
Why don't you reach out, and we can at least have a free intro session to start. 😊
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I will have to listen to this a number of times. This is not my style of teaching. I appreciate intellectualism, but I found this too intellectualized. I would have appreciated language that was less abstract, and would have found it more immediately useful. Just my take.
Grateful for your feedback. What would you like to see?