Open Awareness Meditation

Open-awareness is a form of insight meditation. The objective with this practice is to broaden your awareness and gently take in whatever arises, without clinging to it or adding any additional layers of interpretation or narrative. Whereas with concentration meditation we are narrowing our focus and bringing attention to a single object, with open-awareness we are widening our consciousness and welcoming anything and everything that comes. Generally this form of meditation is taught after a solid grounding in concentration, as the looseness of this practice can easily turn into daydreaming or spacing out. Still, some people may be naturally drawn to the openness and ease of this practice and find that it resonates with a kind of innate wisdom.