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Aware : the science and practice of presence : the groundbreaking meditation practice Cover Image Book Book

Aware : the science and practice of presence : the groundbreaking meditation practice / Dr. Daniel Siegel, M.D.

Siegel, Daniel J., 1957- (author.).

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"Aware provides practical instruction for mastering the Wheel of Awareness, a practice to focus attention, open awareness, and cultivate kind intention that can help one grow a healthier brain and reduce fear, anxiety, and stress in their life"-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781101993040
  • Physical Description: xiii, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : TarcherPerigee, [2018]

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Subject: Self-actualization (Psychology)
Mindfulness (Psychology)
Meditation.

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PART I THE WHEEL OF AWARENESS: IDEA AND PRACTICE
1(120)
An Invitation
3(12)
Cultivating Well-Being by Developing Attention, Awareness, and Intention
4(2)
A Practical Tool
6(6)
A Travel Guide to the Mind
12(3)
Stories of Using the Wheel of Awareness: Harnessing the Power of Presence
15(10)
Billy and His Return to the Hub
16(1)
Jonathan's Respite from His Emotional Roller Coaster
16(1)
Mona and the Sanctuary of the Hub
17(1)
Teresa, Trauma, and Healing with the Integration of the Wheel
18(4)
Zachary: Finding Meaning, Connection, and Relief from Pain
22(3)
Preparing Your Mind for the Wheel of Awareness: Focused Attention
25(34)
Building the Regulatory Aspect of the Mind
25(2)
Some Starting Tips
27(5)
A Mindsight Lens
32(2)
Breath Awareness to Stabilize Attention
34(6)
What Is the Mind?
40(6)
Three Pillars of Mind Training
46(4)
Focal and Non-Focal Attention
50(3)
Monitoring Attention and Awareness
53(6)
The Basic Wheel of Awareness
59(19)
Maps, Metaphors, and Mechanisms
59(2)
The Basic and the Full Wheel of Awareness
61(4)
A Map of the Basic Wheel of Awareness
65(3)
Practicing the Basic Wheel of Awareness
68(4)
Reflecting on Mind: Your Experience of the Basic Wheel
72(6)
Kind Intention
78(29)
Weaving Kindness, Empathy, and Compassion into Your Life
79(12)
Integration, Spirituality, Health
91(2)
Our Inner and Inter Selves
93(2)
Building Compassion with Statements of Intention
95(7)
Reflecting on Kind and Compassionate Intention
102(3)
Deepening the Wheel Practice
105(2)
Open Awareness
107(14)
Exploring the Hub
107(4)
Reflecting on Knowing
111(1)
Energy Around the Wheel
112(5)
Consolidated Wheel Practice
117(4)
PART II THE WHEEL OF AWARENESS AND MECHANISMS OF MIND
121(158)
Mind and the Energy Flow of the Body
123(37)
Minding Your Brain
128(2)
Your Head Brain in a Hand Model
130(5)
The Default Mode Network
135(3)
How to Integrate the DMN
138(5)
Loosening the Grip of a Separate Self
143(3)
Clinging Versus Attachment
146(5)
The Fourth Segment of the Rim and the Relational Mind
151(5)
Growing an Integrated Brain with Mind Training
156(4)
Integration in the Brain and the Spoke of Focal Attention
160(23)
How and Where Does Awareness Arise?
160(6)
Awareness and the Integration of Information
166(3)
Attention, Consciousness, and the Social Brain
169(5)
The Hub of Knowing and Possible Mechanisms of the Brain Beneath Pure Awareness
174(9)
The Nature of Energy, the Energy of Mind
183(48)
Science, Energy, and Experience
183(3)
The Energy of Nature
186(16)
Energy as Probability
202(12)
A 3-P Diagram of Energy Flow
214(4)
Mapping the Mind as Peaks, Plateaus, and a Plane of Possibility
218(13)
Awareness, the Hub, and a Plane of Possibility
231(7)
Awareness and the Plane of Possibility
231(3)
Brain Correlates of Pure Consciousness
234(4)
Filters of Consciousness
238(36)
Filters of Consciousness and the Organization of Experience
238(5)
How Top-Down and Bottom-Up Shape Our Sense of Reality
243(5)
Plateaus, "Self," and the Default Mode Network
248(5)
One Personal Set of Filters
253(3)
Pure Awareness and the Filters of Consciousness
256(2)
The Oscillatory Sweep of Attention: A 3-P Loop, a Spoke of the Wheel
258(6)
Sweep Ratios, States of Mind
264(10)
Awe and Joy
274(5)
A Table of Correlations Among Mental Experience, Metaphor, and Mechanism
276(3)
PART III STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION IN APPLYING THE WHEEL: HARNESSING THE HUB AND LIVING FROM THE PLANE OF POSSIBILITY
279(52)
Offering the Wheel as an Idea to Children: Billy and the Freedom of the Hub, the Spaciousness of the Plane
282(6)
Teaching the Wheel to Adolescents: Jonathan and Calming the Roller Coaster of Plateaus and Peaks
288(7)
The Wheel for Parents and Other Care Providers: Mona and the Freedom from Recurrent Plateaus and Peaks of Chaos and Rigidity
295(6)
The Wheel in Healing Trauma: Teresa and the Transformation of Traumatic Filters of Consciousness
301(19)
The Wheel, Professional Life, and an Awakened Mind: Zachary and Accessing the Plane
320(11)
PART IV THE POWER OF PRESENCE
331(32)
Challenges and Opportunities of Living with Presence and Being Aware
336(8)
Freedom: Transforming into Possibility
344(3)
Presence Beyond Methods
347(3)
Mindful Awareness and Integration
350(2)
Linking from the Plane
352(2)
Laughing, Living, and Dying from the Plane
354(5)
Leading and Loving from the Plane
359(4)
Acknowledgments 363(4)
Selected References and Reading 367(2)
Index 369

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