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When you become more infinite in your perception, you become more open, and knowing what will happen next becomes less important. It’s the difference between flow and restriction.

Stuart Wilde • Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power

learn to notice what’s happening with your broad awareness of the space around you. I’ve written before about the idea that awareness—the breadth of things you are able to notice in any given moment—can expand and collapse. Collapsed awareness is like tunnel vision, where there’s a sense that the wider world around you goes away while the thing you... See more

Michael Ashcroft • How to Make Unfixated Choices

The more we practise inclining the mind to notice space, the easier it becomes to actually open up some space in the perception and experience some relief.

Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising

When you find yourself feeling somehow imprisoned in a situation, or grasping unhelpfully at something that is not present, see if you can look within and around you in a way that ‘deconstructs’ your world into its aggregate appearances of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, physical sensations, and mental and emotional experiences. Play and experiment