# TMI Peripheral Awareness TMI Peripheral Awareness is the broad contextual knowing that stays open around attention and helps the meditator notice the whole field of experience. ## Meaning In TMI, attention selects and analyzes a part of experience, while peripheral awareness holds the broader context. Peripheral awareness can include external sensations, body context, emotional tone, thoughts, and the state of the mind. It is not a distraction from meditation. It is part of what keeps practice awake, responsive, and balanced. When peripheral awareness collapses, attention can become over-focused, dull, or captured without warning. ## Source Of Meaning This note is grounded in The Mind Illuminated conscious-experience model and attention-awareness comparison, especially PDF pp. 56-83 and 239-263. ## Relationship Over Time This meaning should be compared with Joe's broader meanings for awareness, attention, and presence. ## Links - [[The Mind Illuminated Meaning Guide]] - [[The Mind Illuminated Meaning Map]] - [[TMI Stable Attention]] - [[TMI Mindfulness]] - [[TMI Introspective Awareness]] - [[TMI Dullness]] - [[Mental Well-being]] - [[Spiritual Well-being]] - [[Joe]] ## Tensions Peripheral awareness can be misunderstood as letting the mind wander. In TMI, it supports stable attention by keeping the larger field known. ## Question What needs to remain gently known around the object of attention?