Week 15 Day 7

Week 15 Day 7
Medi object choiceless
Intention check alertness, receptivity, equanimity after practice. Notice the detail!

Good afternoon everyone! Today I decided to have another go at my living room and have managed to clear out at least one sack of rubbish. Today's meditation was 30 minutes with 5 minutes metta and 25 minutes of noting.

I felt I was alert but I still noticed that I nodded off a few times. I observed that this was when my breathing seemed to disappear from my awareness . So towards the end I tried to keep hearing my breath . I also felt that besides the usual hearing, seeing of light,and going in and out of thoughts , I sensed the outside of my body I am not sure why but I felt the clothes on my arms and the air around my head. I heard my neighbours talking and the heating clicks I tried to listen in detail. I was a bit fidgety today and I adjusted my position several times. I observed that when a thought train progressed it was usually after an image had popped into my head. I would go back to my breath and the thought would fade. Each time I noted the rising and falling of the breath the sounds , the light in front of my eyes , my hands and my feet how they felt, if I maintained this cycle I found that thoughts did not creep in. However when the breath disappeared either I was nodding off or I had proceeded down a thought train. There were a lot of thoughts today mainly about instruction. Full of people that I didn't know, but I did observe one thought from start to finish of a woman looking at me, I'm not sure what she was asking, but I was able to look at the thought and and observe it until its natural end. And then I returned to the breath. I resisted opening my eyes to check the time, and soon the final bells went. I sat doing the for a few more cycles and then I came out of practice.

So...now to golf or more tidying??? That is the deepest question I must answer today! Happy Saturday to all of you!