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The Wheel of Awareness A Practice you can use as a Concentration Tool for Sitting Meditation All of Dan Siegel’s Guided Audio http://drdansiegel.com/resources/wheel_of_awareness/ Audio for 8minute practice: http://drdansiegel.com/resources/wheel_of_awareness/uploads/WheelofAwarenessI.mp3 Audio for 22minute practice: practice:http://drdansiegel.com/resources/wheel_of_awareness/uploads/WheelofAwarnessII.mp3 Audio for 26minute practice with choiceless awareness: http://drdansiegel.com/resources/wheel_of_awareness/uploads/Wheel%20of%20Awareness%20III.mp3 A Daily Mental Hygiene Practice Brushing the brain, like we brush our teeth, for mental, emotional, and physical health Beginning with a conscious breathing awareness practice for 2-3 minutes; then briefly checking/observing each part of the wheel of awareness: • My 5 senses (1 at a time): What am I SEEING, HEARING, TASTING, SMELLING, FEELING on my skin? • My 6 th sense : What am I feeling in my INNER BODY? (in the area around my heart, around my stomach/intestines, and muscles (interoception, or interior awareness) • My 7 th sense : MENTAL ACTIVITIES What thoughts, memories, feelings/emotions are present right now? • My 8 th sense : How do I FEEL CONNECTED … to myself, other people, activities (the “relationional” sense) “This is the way to keep the brain clear of muck that gets stuck in there.”
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The Wheel of Awareness
A Practice you can use as a Concentration Tool
for
Sitting Meditation All of Dan Siegel’s Guided Audio
http://drdansiegel.com/resources/wheel_of_awareness/
Audio for 8-‐minute practice: http://drdansiegel.com/resources/wheel_of_awareness/uploads/WheelofAwarenessI.mp3
Audio for 22-‐minute practice: practice:http://drdansiegel.com/resources/wheel_of_awareness/uploads/WheelofAwarnessII.mp3
Audio for 26-‐minute practice with choiceless awareness: http://drdansiegel.com/resources/wheel_of_awareness/uploads/Wheel%20of%20Awareness%20III.mp3
A Daily Mental Hygiene Practice
Brushing the brain, like we brush our teeth, for mental, emotional, and physical health
Beginning with a conscious breathing awareness practice for 2-3 minutes; then briefly checking/observing
each part of the wheel of awareness:
• My 5 senses (1 at a time): What am I SEEING, HEARING, TASTING, SMELLING, FEELING on my skin?
• My 6th sense: What am I feeling in my INNER BODY? (in the area around my heart, around my stomach/intestines, and muscles (interoception, or interior awareness)
• My 7th sense: MENTAL ACTIVITIES What thoughts, memories, feelings/emotions are present right now?
• My 8th sense: How do I FEEL CONNECTED … to myself, other people, activities (the “relationional” sense)
“This is the way to keep the brain clear of muck that gets stuck in there.”
