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*** What are the various background sounds? (Birds, cars, people talking softly at a table.) - Try some of the [[Sounds|Sounds Exercises]]. | *** What are the various background sounds? (Birds, cars, people talking softly at a table.) - Try some of the [[Sounds|Sounds Exercises]]. | ||
*** Whatever mindfulness exercises you personally connect with, try to apply them to what is on the television. | *** Whatever mindfulness exercises you personally connect with, try to apply them to what is on the television. | ||
*** If what you are watching doesn't lend itself to any of these exercises, that's okay. Instead, practice mindfully watching the show, without distraction, allowing the world around you to melt away, and drawing all your attention to what is on TV. | |||
** Once more shift your perception, now to include both the world of the television, and your own world, as if the space and experience within the TV was taking place within the room you are in. This will not make contextual sense in many cases, but in some cases (for example) it would be easy to see the people on the TV sitting at a table and feel that they are sitting at a table in the room with you. | ** Once more shift your perception, now to include both the world of the television, and your own world, as if the space and experience within the TV was taking place within the room you are in. This will not make contextual sense in many cases, but in some cases (for example) it would be easy to see the people on the TV sitting at a table and feel that they are sitting at a table in the room with you. | ||
** Note that this exercise is very similar to how you might play with your perception in a [[Rooms and Boundaries#Mirrors|Mirror]]. Try adapting some of those exercises to the television. | ** Note that this exercise is very similar to how you might play with your perception in a [[Rooms and Boundaries#Mirrors|Mirror]]. Try adapting some of those exercises to the television. | ||