Awareness Games: Playing with Your Mind to Create Joy

by Brian Tom O'Connor

New Cover! (Same great content...) Awareness Games are enjoyable but surprisingly deep games you can play with your own mind. Kind of like meditating only more fun and less work. And not so serious. Awareness Games are ways to play with your mind to point it towards the infinite well of happiness and joy that lies within each of us. Play with pure awareness and discover the background of all experience, where happiness is hiding in plain sight. ALSO AVAILABLE IN Jeugos de Juega con tu mente para ser más feliz.

Genres: Spirituality, Self Help, Psychology, Meditation, Nonfiction, Personal Development, Audiobook

96 pages, Paperback

Published February 9, 2016

Reviews

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great collection of simple mindfulness exercises. Kind of like writing prompts, but for meditation. None of the spiritual stuff that often comes with other guided meditations. Not that there's anything wrong with that :)

The audio is excellent and the narrator (the author) does a great job. However due to the nature of the content, reading the text would probably be more effective.

[Laura Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a gem and I mean this is the sense of it as a unique, multi-faceted delight to the senses and imagination. For me, it’s a must-read, must-try for anyone who’s feeling rigid or stuck or way-too-serious in their meditation practice to learn how to lighten up and get playful, and for anyone in any creative realm to spark their imagination and dwell in the infinite richness of their own mind. Partly zen koans, partly theater games, partly creativity prompts, these exercises are meant not to be read but to be undertaken with an attitude of curiosity and fun. The “mind” games offered in this book allow the reader/practitioner to experience the world in a new light. It’s a slim volume but full of great paradox and wisdom. Just as we never step into the same river twice, so each awareness game is never the same, no matter how many times you give it a try. So give it a try.

[Bill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Meditation as play. This simple book will change how you see the world. (See also: Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows for another simple perspective-shifting book.)

[Bulent2k2 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tap into fun, joy and peace

A wonderful little book full of reminders, tips, tricks, hints and of course games.. Very light on direct advice (that's good!) but open and honest on many fronts (that's even better).

As the friendly and easy to read author writes at the end, read this book and play the games it offers not to improve yourself, but to enjoy the Self (my own capitalization ;-)

[Guilherme Hoffmann · Rating 5 out of 5]

Why wait for enlightenment?

Why wait for enlightenment when you can play your way there? Drop your preconceptions and prejudices. Drop the effort. There's no point in trying so hard when what you are looking for is staring in your face.

[Sukanya Viswanathan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I could completely relate to and enjoy almost every game in this book. All it requires is just a simple shift in perspective to be free from the weight of living, and this book offers playful yet practical and absolutely surefire ways to relax into awareness. Stabilizing in/as awareness will probably happen over time but these methods will provide playful shortcuts back home each time the mind hypnotises consciousness.

Truly enjoyed this read and look forward to playing many of these games every chance I get!

[Dennis Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

Games make exploration even more enjoyable

Practicing falling back behind the seat of consciousness can be challenging as the mind works to highjack raw awareness. These games give the mind something to do so that that which is aware can uncover itself.

I first listened on audible. The text is a better way to approach this. It encourages one to stop and play along the way.

[Pat Palmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Terrific book!

This book is a real gift to those on the path of developing spiritual awareness. It's wide ranging in providing excellent avenues for experiencing pure awareness , as well as exercises for simply heightening awareness and acceptance of what is.

[Dana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyable read.

This book was a fun, quick read. I chose this book because it was different than most books I pick. I have “played” some of the games and found them helpful for sleeping better and tricking my mind into being less serious. :-)

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

SO GOOD

[Wayne Mueller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun

I liked the light hearted “games” approach the author took. I’ve personally Been on a spiritual truth journey for several years now, and this book has been a help.

[Duncan Ritchie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kindle 3/5

[Mouzzam Mukadam · Rating 2 out of 5]

Multiple ways to come into the present moment.

[S. Imig · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fantastic short book of ways to play with awareness. It provides a fun way to learn about consciousness from a direct, first person, experiential perspective. While it is not a book on meditation, nonduality, or advaita, I'd recommend it to anyone interested in those subjects.

[M A R Y A M ⚘ م ر ي م · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is full of journal prompts to reflect upon. Very nice. Loved it.