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* Next, prepare for a complete shift from that perspective.
* Next, prepare for a complete shift from that perspective.
* Choose the most likely person with you, for example whoever is speaking the most, besides yourself.
* Choose the most likely person with you, for example whoever is speaking the most, besides yourself.
Return to your most mindful state, with all your attention on that person.  Relax any attention on yourself, simply absorb everything about that person.
* Return to your most mindful state, with all your attention on that person.  Relax any attention on yourself, simply absorb everything about that person.
* Acknowledge to yourself that from their experience they are the center of all sensation and experience.
* Acknowledge to yourself that from their experience they are the center of all sensation and experience.
Be a little creative and put yourself in their position.  What sensations would they be experiencing?  The sounds coming from their mouth.  Their hair itching, their feet hurting, their finger tapping on the table.  Rest with this mindful exercise for a little while, really absorb this imaginative perspective.
* Be a little creative and put yourself in their position.  What sensations would they be experiencing?  The sounds coming from their mouth.  Their hair itching, their feet hurting, their finger tapping on the table.  Rest with this mindful exercise for a little while, really absorb this imaginative perspective.
* If you're familiar with the Headless Way, shift into that.  If not, simply use your own visual field to find that you are in fact pretty unimportant in this scene, because the other person is all that matters.
* If you're familiar with the Headless Way, shift into that.  If not, simply use your own visual field to find that you are in fact pretty unimportant in this scene, because the other person is all that matters.
* The last thing is to shift that perspective onto the other person - from their visual perspective they are the center of everything and you are just there in their consciousness.
* The last thing is to shift that perspective onto the other person - from their visual perspective they are the center of everything and you are just there in their consciousness.