First-person methods are practices that increase an individual’s sensitivity to his or her own experience through the systematic training of attention and self-regulation of emotion.
This ability
to attend reflexively to experience itself—to attend not simply to
what one experiences (the object) but to how one experiences it (the
act)—seems to be a uniquely human ability and mode of experience
we do not share with other animals.
First-person methods for cultivating this ability are found primarily in the contemplative wisdom
traditions of human experience, especially Buddhism
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