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This practice cultivates my attention so that I observe my experience – the perceptions, emotions, thoughts, and other causes, conditions, and contexts that influence me.

I react to events and circumstances, and I allow deadlines and tasks to determine my actions.

The practice of bringing conscious thought to the present moment. Being deliberate and responsible for my motivation, attitude, and direction manifests as mindful choosing, speaking, and action.

My reactions rest on sentimental wishes, wishful thinking, “well-meaning,” and my casual aims and heartfelt desires.

This practice expands my capacity to create and enact agreements with myself and others from the context of being whole and complete. Aligning my values, intentions, speaking, and deeds enhances authenticity and deepens trust.

My fragmented attention and casual speaking create incongruences between my words and deeds, causing confusion, uncertainty, and distrust.

Regular reflection focuses my awareness and deepens my concentration to discern events and patterns below the surface. I develop the discipline to discern direct experience and better understand my experiences, gaining insight beyond daily activities and tasks.

I automatically react to events and tasks, skimming and scanning events. I lack observational skills to manage distractions, prioritize tasks, or discriminate between similar items, and become oblivious to the quality of my output.

This practice involves questioning, examining, reflecting on, and distinguishing concealed assumptions that form my views. The unlearning process encourages letting go of outmoded beliefs and fixed views to cultivate an openness for wisdom to emerge.

I am self-assured in my abilities, knowledge, views, and understanding of myself and the world. While I am interested in learning, I do not see the need to reflect or question my beliefs and assumptions. I would rather spend time learning more to leverage my knowledge.

This practice focuses awareness on weaving thought and meaning, bridging my intentions with reality. With this practice, I become a co-creator responsible for language that shapes meaning, action, and outcomes.

I react with habitual patterns such as gossip, idle speaking, hyperbole, or magical thinking to make myself feel better or impress others.

I practice seeing things as they are. I recreate situations, receive concerns, and acknowledge situations from a background of possibilities.

My split attention leads to withholding, stepping over items, ignoring details, inaction, and taking shortcuts. I tolerate unnecessary missteps that require more time and energy.

My practice of bare attention and receptive awareness allows things to be revealed — for me to be with others as they are and to receive their concerns fully.

I listen only for the information I need to manage my tasks and solve my problems.

With my practice of devotional resolve – cognitively, emotionally, and volitionally – I find serene direction in surrendering to something larger than myself.

My life consists of obligations and perpetual, monotonous tasks that find me aimlessly drifting without direction.

This practice encourages living in the question. I discern situations critically with ontological humility to cultivate openness that suspends certainty. I remain open to others’ perspectives and understand that any view is only part of a larger picture.

I reflexively seek out answers and solutions and stop questioning once I discover them.

This practice develops a context, a capacity for a vast, open awareness free of fixed meaning or previous frames. Potentiality arises from the freedom of spaciousness. With possibility, I cultivate a beginner’s mind, venturing into the unknown and uncertainty to be with what arises.

I am skilled at anticipating, predicting, and controlling situations. I have become attached to this level of certainty and comforted by fixed expectations, which causes disappointment, diminishes my freedom, and denies my potential.