OPEN MONITORING

Hey, wait a minute, my TV doesn't work!

It's broken!

-Black Flag

Open Monitoring meditation is similar to Focused Attention meditation. If focused attention is the "breath" show, then Open Monitoring is the "thoughts" show. In this one, you just take a step back and watch what your brain is doing. Almost like watching a blank TV. Eventually, your mind will start to wander. All you do is watch it wander. It’d be like if you were watching that blank TV and a sitcom popped up for 10 seconds. You just take a quick mental note that… a sitcom just popped up for 10 seconds. This might look like a sound popping up during your practice. You make a mental note that your brain just jumped over to that sound. You are an observer of your mind and thought patterns.