The 5 Doorways of Awareness

A guided meditation to inventory your inner experience

I developed a process called the 5 Doorways of Awareness to quickly inventory the Baseline Patterns of our internal experience through simple observation of a few cues:

1. Somatic

2. Emotional

3. Cognitive

4. Behavioral

5. Ontological (what we believe about ourselves).

Our Baseline Patterns tend to feel compulsive, in the sense that we don’t seem to choose them. Instead, it feels like “that’s just what happens to me when…”

This isn’t bad or an indication of failure. Baseline Patterns aren’t the end of the story. In fact, they point to how we can grow.

We can learn to transcend the habit of our Baseline Patterns and consciously choose other ways to respond. This builds self-agency, expanding choices and tools for living in our complex world.

The key is to upcycle from our Baseline Pattern to a Generative Pattern that gives us more choices.

Try out the 5 Doorways of Awareness with this guided meditation: