Thanks Lucas, and for the movie recommendation as well--I'll check it out.

Yes, I remember wrapping up semesters.... and the sense of freedom that followed!

Glad you appreciated the story. You are often on my mind, and here is an update to your question about how it is happening for me:

I am ...

Lucas, if you have been practicing sensory awareness, now try this for your next few practice sessions:
After your senses are pretty open (please don't strive for perfect!) start watching vigilantly for thoughts to appear in this wide field of awareness.
Don't try to make them happen or keep them ...

I'll put out the intention to follow this and see how it goes then!
Great!

Just the 'trying to fix it' that prolongs it out
Yep, it gets subtle.

Check out this new story by Vince Shubert, the wise storymaker of nonduality :-)
Naomi noticed it first as a micro-no.

Not a thought. A flinch.

She ...

1-2 hours? Wow.
If you were to set aside time to practice only for at least 20 minutes each time, twice per day using the program I sent, I think you would find noticeable benefit. If it occurs to you to practice while walking to class, standing in line, brushing your teeth or any other time, the ...

see if you can be aware of the bodily reaction to those thoughts, the reaction that goes with the sense that those thoughts shouldn't be happening, or wouldn't be happening if you were "awake'.
And then to any reaction that the reaction shouldn’t be happening 😊

there was just some enjoyment of noticing that I was aware
nice!

I might have some time for a zoom this w/e, but lots of moving parts here so won't know until later.

how much time have you been dedicating each day to just relax open your senses and body awareness to what is happening in the ...

or better yet, call or text me at 202.596.9156

Yes, old neural pathways of thoughts, expectations, judgements, emotional reactions may occur for who knows how long.
But when it is seen and accepted that, like everything else, they are just natural events with nobody doing them and nobody to do or change anything about them or anything else ...

and feelings of me, mine, or I are not the problem, either.

Remember--

Judging and worrying are not the problem
Mental gymnastics are not the problem
ifs, coulds, shouldas, wills are not the problem
the feeling that these things happen with a feeling that they matter is not the problem
the idea that the actions taken are out of fear (or even when actions ...

Hey, welcome to the U.S., such as it is now. De donde vienes? Your english is certainly as if you were born here.

About those sensations and emotions and anxieties and thoughts and worries, whether about tests or distractions etc:
=Why should they not be happening?
=Who is causing them, and who ...

Hi Lucas, what's the haps?

O yes, yes, and yes. Beautiful.
just stay with that!
Maybe you will notice even more subtle reactions. That would be cool.
I still do.

I'm travelling and it will be few days before I can respond.

and notice whether there is a "you" that intends, or if the intention itself is just something that happens.

when/if there is identification with thought, is there a "you" that is doing the identifying, or is identification itself just another passing event?

and if there is dissatisfaction with identification, is there a "you" that is dissatisfied, or is dissatisfaction itself just another passing event ...