Hi folks:

Psychologist Les Fehmi worked with something close to non dual awareness for over 50 years and found a way to present it quite simply. he did this so effectively that he was able to help non-meditators deal with depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, chronic pain and even to improve their athletic abilities.

he also made a distinction WITHIN FA and OM attention that I have found critical in teaching people.

He spoke of narrow vs wide attention, which pretty much correlates with FA and OM.

However, he also made an extremely important distinction between detached attention (which is mediated mostly by the left hemisphere, and tends to emphasize the subjective-object split - "I am here" and "you are there." - and immersed attention, which is typical of the state often referred to as flow or "being in the zone."

He called his approach "Open Focus," NOT to indicate open monitoring but the development of attentional flexibility such that one learns intuitively to shift from one mode of attention to another.

So many people are concerned that mindfulness inhibits creativity. But Jerome Singer made a distinction - there's dysphoric mind wandering, which tends to be negative and self critical, vs positive, playful daydreaming, which is very creative.

Now, to come back to non dual awareness As Open Focus becomes more and more natural and spontaneous, the sense of a "me" who is directing this gets less and less. The flow of thoughts gets quieter and quieter, and there's more and more a sense of background spaciousness, silence and stillness amidst all activity.

As you get to the point where attention is effortless, without any sense of "me" directing things, there may come a shift where in place of living life as "me" opposed to the world, there's a sense of one field of awareness/objects-of-awareness flowing, interacting, spontaneously.

The cliche way of talking about this is everything becomes "one" - and a lot of people in the non dual awareness world think of it this way, but "one" is a concept. The experience, (not really a way of "thinking," Mike, but a way of relating to experience) is of a dynamic flow, interconnected, where the vast variety of things is enhanced while accompanied by a sense of deep inseparability..