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Watching television provides a very unique and instructive method for shifting your perspective around, because in essence, a television is another world, with other people, sounds, qualities, and space.

= General Exercises =

* Perform any of the [[Rooms and Boundaries]] exercises, treating the television itself as a window into another room.

* Many of the [[People]] exercises can be applied to the people on television, although many of them won't apply in the same way.

== Mindful Television ==

Just as you can be (and should be!) [[Attention|Mindful]] when with other [[:Category:People|People]], you can apply that same Skill to your experience watching Television.  For this Skill there's no need to put any additional layer of meditative effort into it more than just watching Television with [[Attention]].

* Pay attention to one moment of the show at a time.  Allow every sound and sight to hit you, without any attempt to understand or absorb that one moment.  Naturally, another moment, and another will continue to arise, and each time let just one moment exist at a time.  After all, that's all that does ever exist at any time.

* Another completely different angle is to mindfully watch TV while also mindfully paying attention to the whole room.  After all, what's going on the screen and speakers is co-equal in consciousness with anything else taking place in the room.

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