Equanimity

Term	Equanimity
Definitions	One of the three core attention skills, the ability to allow sensory experience to come and go without push and pull. Can be developed through a range of methods, such as noticing when it happens spontaneously, dropping judgments, intentionally relaxing, non-interference, anchoring attention away, noticing disappearances, creating or collapsing distance between yourself and a focus object (through zooming, being the witness, etc.), or accessing a positive emotional state, such as gratitude, compassion, etc. Foreground/Background: You may be focusing directly on a sensory experience or you may be allowing a sensory experience to come and go freely in the background. Background: Equanimity applied to any and all sensory experience outside of the focus range (in distraction space). Practiced by allowing experience to come and go freely in the background of attention. Foreground: Applying Equanimity directly to a sensory experience. May be induced with physical relaxation, a matter-of-fact tone in labels, any welcoming or accepting attitude, zooming, or designer options. Pairs with Background Equanimity. Deep Equanimity: A way to talk about transcendence. There is so little friction in the sensory system that sensory experience of form is completely effortless, spontaneous, and non-separate, and sensory awareness of no form is so complete, there is not even light.
Synonyms	Coolness, Non-resistance, Non-interference, Equanimous (adjective), Equanimize (verb), Love
Antonyms	Resistance, Self-interference, Sticky, Fixated, Coagulated, Congealed, Solidified
Related	Compassion, Attitude, Foreground/Background Equanimity, Rest, Flow, deep Equanimity