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@michael – you are correct, I was referring to the four “Steps” in my post, above, not Stages. sorry, new to all the terminology this discipline.

I would add that another day or two of doing this is continues to reap rapid benefits. Although I have been meditating for 6-7 years, I am quite new to culadasa’s techniques, and so have been using the…[Read more]

perhaps part of reconciling the various ideas put forward by posters in this thread is to recognise that a working definition of “conscious” and “subconscious” is a bit tricky. We may each having rather different understandings how how we use these terms. (Though I suspect we can all more easily agree what is “unconscious” 😉 )

One of the…[Read more]

one technique I have recently been using is this:

At the end of a sit, where in the final 10-20 minutes I usually have achieved some fairly stable degree of focused attention on the breath at the nose or upper lip, and after my timer signals the end of a session, I then tag on a few minutes of stepping backwards and forwards through the four…[Read more]

Hello All. New here, first post, would like to throw out a few thoughts of Peripheral Awareness vs Attention, and ask if the more experienced meditators/teachers here could comment on what parts of my conception seem valid or useful, what parts are maybe not so much.

Despite a few years of meditation experience, like others i initially had some…[Read more]