Medi prune!

Wow now I am really like a prune...but it's so nice to spend time on this activity I don't care!

 Week 10 Day 1.
 Medi object choiceless 
Intention : SNAT, be receptive to all sensations unpleasant and pleasant.

 Good evening everyone! Medi prune here 😂. I am sitting in the bath, after meditating for 35 minutes. So therefore I am well washed and prunish. It's not that easy to practise in this bath simply because the bath is not quite large enough for me to totally immerse myself, and therefore if I keep still some bits of my body become cold. So I had to move the water around every so often. I started with 10 minutes of metta practice. Again I found it quite hard to focus on my chosen object. Lots of other images came into my head which I tried to keep in the background. I did catch a few seconds here and there the pleasant image with a cosy feeling. The bell went and I prepared for noting practice. Noting practice was an interesting experience in luke warm water. My Doraemon clock ticks very loudly, it is a compound noise and I can sense the mechanism turning as the clock ticks. As the water dried around my exposed body interminable inches arose on my face, my forehead, my nose and my chinny chin chin 😨. This time I tried so hard not to wish that they would disappear, but I noted my aversion and was able not to scratch. In truth all these sensations are impermanent because after a few minutes the focus moves on to something else. I could hear my neighbours walking around upstairs, the heating system, and I could feel bits of my body that were not covered by the water beginning to cool. Various thoughts about golf came into my mind, thoughts about my family and thoughts about work. Again it was somewhat like a video where I was not a participant. I do believe that at one point I must have drifted off and I became spontaneously aware of this and brought myself back to the present. The perils of lying down! I had watched Nick's video on SNAT before the practice and so I was not surprised when I heard some unfamiliar noises in the kitchen next to the bathroom. I opened my eyes in the last 5 mins and it was extremely pleasant as I am in the bath with the main light off with 2 candles and a luci light on (check them out they are amazing). The candles were giving off a pleasant aroma every now and then. I'm trying to find a way to keep all the resources we find in one place...as I'm not an administrator here I can't add files. I'm happy to post them here and onto my blog in a post called 365DOM resources so we can all find them again. It is a nuisance that you can't search Facebook and comments appear to get lost. So if you want me to post stuff just let me know. Will post my discoveries separately from my meditation journals. Today I played golf a game of two halves but had joy joy feelings socialising with my golfing buddies who have become my friends. We spent 6 hours with each other and we only left the clubhouse because I had to get to the supermarket before it closed. I felt warm and fuzzy and very content, and looked forward to getting back to meditate and see how all of you are getting along. I didn't meditate this morning as I didn't sleep much last night, not sure why...but I realise that I will find time to practise but my habitual weekend routine doesn't suit early rising...will ponder about this. 🐷