[Don Salmon]

Maybe some practice would help?

Try this.

Notice the shapes of the letters here on screen

s

h

a

p

e

s

now, notice the white space between the letters

s

h

a

p

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s

Now, notice thoughts arising in awareness.

Listen to the thoughts as if they were nonsensical sounds – just as with the letters, you’re letting go fo the meaning and just noticing shapes, let go of the meaning of the thoughts and hear them as pure sound.

Now, notice, IN BETWEEN thoughts – there’s space, silence, stillness.

Notice BOTH:

Thoughts…… (space)……Thoughts…..(space)……Thoughts…..(space)

now, finally, switch figure and ground. At first the focus is mainly on thoughts, as the Figure: and the background is space.

Let Space be the main focus

SPACE……(thoughts)…….SPACE…..(thoughts)…….SPACE…..(thoughts)

notice the SPACE IS PRESENT even when thoughts occur.

Les Fehmi had a patient, Paula, who was an emergency room nurse. For years, she had severe migraines, crippling pain, horrible stomach aches, ongoing severe anxiety and frequent panic attacks.

He simply said to her, “notice space. Notice space between things in the environment, and notice space between your thoughts. notice the space within which the energy of the sensations of your body moves.”

In 3 weeks, ALL of her symptoms were gone.

She said after 3 months, virtually EVERY area of her life had improved.

Our ordinary fixated, analytic attention has nothing to grab on to when we shift to noticing space.

Try it. Be sure to do it multiple times a day for several weeks, for at least a minute or so at a time, and let us know what happens. It is a VERY VERY radical shift, and will change everything in your life if you commit to it.

Here’s a nice little animation showing you how to do the internal shift from thoughts to space:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkP1-lin590