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The Lab

Try something.

See what happens.

We’re not giving you homework. We’re giving you something to investigate.

Nothing here has a correct result. Only what you notice.

Notice→Explore→Discover

Seven ways of practicing the same thing. No order. Start wherever you’re curious.

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60-Second Awareness

You don’t have to change anything. Just notice.

HypothesisThere is more happening right now than you were noticing a moment ago.

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Assumption

Your brain hates an empty space. It fills it in.

HypothesisSome of what feels like knowing is assuming.

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Thought

You had a thought. That doesn’t mean you have to follow it.

HypothesisA thought can be watched instead of followed.

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Curiosity

What if you didn’t have to decide yet?

HypothesisCuriosity opens a door that judgment closes.

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Reaction

Something happened. Then something happened inside you.

HypothesisThere is a space between the trigger and the reaction.

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Attention

Where your attention goes, your experience follows.

HypothesisAttention has habits you haven’t been introduced to yet.

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Learn Your Body’s Language

Your body is talking. You don’t have to understand it yet.

HypothesisBodily sensations carry information — but the sensation itself doesn’t automatically tell you what it means.

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A laboratory for being human. You’re the one running the experiment.