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Re: Giulio B. practice journal

PostPosted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 1:13 pm
by Giulio B.
Staggering success: got up before 8 a.m. for two days in a row. That's just because the construction workers came here at 7:30, but it's valid for the sake of counting nonetheless. Yesterday i missed the meditation appointment. Today I'm going to do the double in one session: 20 min + 10 min +20 min + 10 min + 20 min + 10 min + 20 min of noting, where the 20's are lying on the gym mat and the 10's are stretching/light exercising. Start in 25 minutes.

Re: Giulio B. practice journal

PostPosted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 1:33 pm
by Giulio B.
Getting-up time still good. The final objective is to be able to get up at 7 every morning. I'm at 8-9 right now.
About to start noting (5 minutes late).

Re: Giulio B. practice journal

PostPosted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 1:34 pm
by Giulio B.
About to do the noting session. I decided that the "practice only if you can get up from bed by 8 a.m." rule is cancelled, because there's no more traction. Now the priority is shifted at maintaining a steady and qualitatively high practice.

Re: Giulio B. practice journal

PostPosted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 2:45 am
by Giulio B.
About to do 50 min. of noting. "Doubling the dose" started today.

Edit: done 10 minutes of "texting" just to play around. 74 words in total.

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Edit: about to do 50 min. of noting. (7 minutes late)

Update: done about 45 minutes of noting this morning, about to do 45 minutes of noting right now (38 minutes late)

Re: Giulio B. practice journal

PostPosted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:32 pm
by Giulio B.
45 minutes of noting starting right now (6 minutes late).

Update: 45 minutes of noting starting now (30 minutes late)

Update: 45 minutes of noting starting now, in time.

Update: 45 minutes of noting starting now (38 minutes late). Being late is destructive.

Re: Giulio B. practice journal

PostPosted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 5:21 pm
by Giulio B.
It is 1.10 a.m., missed meditation because I went to sleep in the afternoon and woke up at 10 p.m. I'm going to do it right now. This time I'll have a notebook beside me, so I can write down some notes or facts I don't want to forget.

A couple of days ago I stated: "doubling the dose starts today..." alluding at a second period of meditation in the morning. Couldn't do it more than once. It is Okay for me now just perfecting the practice at 1 time/day. Furthermore, I feel the practice has stabilized in the sense that I do not need anymore social pressure to push me doing it. So I won't need any more announcements like "About to do 45 minutes of...".

I'll use a new format for posting from now on, to give a sense of order. It is the one below.

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Practice journal of Saturday 28/12/2013

Current schedule: Choiceless noting 1/day, 45 minutes, starting at 21:30 p.m.

Done: yes, late

Considerations: A few periods of daydreaming, lasting 30-60 seconds I think. For the rest nothing relevant. Although I'm not sure, I think I would need more concentration for this to work out.

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Re: Giulio B. practice journal

PostPosted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 6:01 pm
by Giulio B.
Practice journal of Sunday 29/12/2013

Current schedule: Choiceless noting 1/day, 45 minutes, starting at 21:30 p.m.

Done: yes, late

Considerations: none.

Re: Giulio B. practice journal

PostPosted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 3:54 pm
by Giulio B.
Practice journal of Monday 30/12/2013

Current schedule: Choiceless noting 1/day, 45 minutes, starting at 21:30 p.m.

Done: yes, late

Considerations: great deal of self-criticism, comments about personal inefficacy, and general rumination. I am currently ruminating.

Re: Giulio B. practice journal

PostPosted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 2:45 pm
by Giulio B.
Practice journal of Tuesday 31/12/2013

Current schedule: Choiceless noting 1/day, 45 minutes, starting at 21:30 p.m.

Done: yes, late

Considerations: periods of bombardments by feelings of futility and ineffectiveness concerning the practice, intervalled by periords of satisfaction and self-efficacy, always in relation to practice.

Re: Giulio B. practice journal

PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 3:09 pm
by Giulio B.
Practice journal of Wednesday 1/1/2014

Current schedule: Choiceless noting 1/day, 45 minutes, starting at 21:30 p.m.

Done: yes, punctual

Considerations: none