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Re: Giulio B. practice journal

Postby Giulio B. » Fri Dec 06, 2013 1:31 pm

About to do 20 lying + 10 stretching + 15 lying noting. This system of mandatory posting beforehand is exceptional, I almost never fail. About the wake-up time, still not able to get up at 8, but I'm getting closer. Will retry tomorrow morning.
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Re: Giulio B. practice journal

Postby Giulio B. » Sat Dec 07, 2013 1:05 pm

About to do 20 lying + 10 stretching + 15 lying noting.
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Re: Giulio B. practice journal

Postby Giulio B. » Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:31 pm

Missed my appointment yesterday. Total until now, 16 days of new regime with 14 done and 2 missed (1/8 on average). About to do 20 lying + 10 stretching + 15 lying noting.
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Re: Giulio B. practice journal

Postby Giulio B. » Tue Dec 10, 2013 2:01 pm

A little late. About to do 20 lying + 10 stretching + 15 lying noting.
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Re: Giulio B. practice journal

Postby Giulio B. » Wed Dec 11, 2013 3:31 pm

Forgot to post. Practice done correctly. I'm still not able to get up by 8 a.m. though. Now that the practice routine is stabilized, I plan on making getting up by 8 a.m. mandatory in order to practice the evening, starting on Monday 16/12. This means that if my skin touches the bed or the sofa any time after 7:59:59 a.m. in the morning, I will not practice at the evening. Success probability is like 70%, though if the first 2-3 days go well, the rest will be easy.
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Re: Giulio B. practice journal

Postby Giulio B. » Thu Dec 12, 2013 1:35 pm

About to do 20 lying + 10 stretching + 20 lying noting.
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Re: Giulio B. practice journal

Postby TravisGM » Thu Dec 12, 2013 8:04 pm

How has your noting been going?
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Re: Giulio B. practice journal

Postby Giulio B. » Fri Dec 13, 2013 2:01 pm

TravisGM wrote:How has your noting been going?

Hello, thank you. If I tried to answer your question I would get crazy for a couple of hours and then eventually give up. I really don't know how my noting is going, this is why I don't say anything about it. I can sort of grasp that the objective would be to "catch" all mental phenomena, the one going on right now for example. Though this seems to be a natural process, non do-able, Noting would be a means to trick the brain into putting itself in that mode. I know that mental things are sticky and have a sort of grabbing and dragging power, suffering activates intensely there. In very rare times they get recognized at their beginning stage of life though, and the grabbing power either does not activate or it dissolves. In that case the associated suffering also dissolves (to re-emerge a split of second later with another phenomena), and there is suddenly excitement. Though I can't voluntarily activate this thing. Also motivation fluctuates greatly.

What would have you answered at my place?

(about to do noting right now).
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Re: Giulio B. practice journal

Postby Giulio B. » Sun Dec 15, 2013 1:08 pm

Missed yesterday. About to note for 20 minutes in the lying position, 10 minutes stretching, and another 20 minutes lying. Tomorrow morning is the first day of compulsory getting up by 7:59:59 am. If that is missed, I can't practice for that day.
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Re: Giulio B. practice journal

Postby Giulio B. » Tue Dec 17, 2013 3:03 pm

I have done two concentration sessions the previous two days in substitution for the noting. I couldn't do the noting because I didn't get up on time (8 a.m.), but at 9, and this is the rule I set. No noting until I wake up on time. I have experimented on concentrating on a touching sensation on the forehead, because i have some difficulties with breath-following (counting). It was a half-success I'd say. Tomorrow morning I'll get up in time, no doubt.
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