The Idea

The Practice of Awareness

See yourself happening

A way of relating to yourself and your life with more observation, curiosity, discernment, and choice. It begins with noticing what gets your attention.

Sacred Friction™

Awareness begins when something gets your attention. A reaction. A pattern. A tension. A thought you cannot shake. A decision that suddenly feels different. A moment that does not fit the story you have been telling yourself.

That moment is often Sacred Friction™, the tension that asks you to notice something. It may show up as discomfort, resistance, uncertainty, activation, contradiction, or change. The goal is to stay with it long enough to see it. The friction is information. It gives you something to become aware of.

Conscious Interruption™

A Conscious Interruption™ is the moment you catch what is happening before the automatic response takes over.

  • You pause.
  • You notice the thought.
  • You question the assumption.
  • You separate what happened from what you made it mean.

You create a little space between the pattern and what happens next. That space is where choice becomes available.

Angles of Awareness

Sometimes what you need inside that space is another perspective. Angles of Awareness are experiential perspective shifts that help you see something from a different angle. Each one loosens unconscious certainty and makes more of the situation visible.

  • What else could be true?
  • Is this true, or is it familiar?
  • Do I need to decide, or do I need more information?
  • What am I making this mean?
  • Can I trust myself without being certain?

How the practice moves

  1. 01
    Sacred Friction™Something gets your attention.
  2. 02
    AwarenessYou notice what is happening.
  3. 03
    Conscious Interruption™You create space before automatically reacting.
  4. 04
    Angle of AwarenessYou explore another way of seeing it.
  5. 05
    ChoiceYou respond from what you can see now.

See differently · Notice more · Trust yourself · Move differently

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Open the question

A good question interrupts unconscious certainty.

The questions you ask shape what you are able to see. Ask “Why do I always mess this up?” and your mind starts collecting proof. Ask “What am I missing here?” and you are looking for information instead of confirmation.

Many of the questions we ask already contain a conclusion. Bring to mind something you have been thinking about, struggling with, or trying to figure out. Don’t solve it yet.


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Catch the question. Find the assumption. Open the question.

Visibility creates the possibility of participation.

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