Passive Voice Meditation

Explore the power of using the passive voice in meditation to shift focus from the self to the present moment. Dan and Joseph discuss how this linguistic approach can lead to effortless awareness and reduce over-efforting in practice.

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- Can you give an example of how awareness and attention differ, particularly in the context of meditation? For instance, during meditation, when a negative thought arises and I'm able to notice and understand that I have a choice—that I can give my attention to another thought, a more positive one—would this knowing, this realization of my power of choice, be considered awareness?