Week 16 Day 1

Week 16 Day 1

Meditation object choice list
intention: to see the detail clearly

Today's meditation pre golf. The meditation timer appears to be playing up again with random ringing.

5 minutes metta. I did find that I could maintain the feeling 4 a few minutes. I had to keep on imagining the image, today the metta was accompanied by purple and green swirls.

For noting,  I started with the breath and then moved to the ringing of my ears to hear the different sounds within the ringing. My neighbours seem to joining me, this must be the time that they clean the floor. Amidst the rising and falling of breath I heard my neighbours, the heating sounds, the ringing in my ears, felt the sensations of my hands on my knees and my feet on the ground. I did see some thoughts again one particularly of a clown who was looking at me. The people don't seem to speak. When I turn myi focus back to the breath it disappeared. The cycle of breath , hearing, seeing (I was seeing black moving across my eyes  towards the left and then back towards the right), the feeling of the hands on knees, feet onground that actually kept me very occupied and I felt sometimes that bizarrely out of body. I was alert, I was not dozing, but I observed myself doing all these things. The random bells were a bit annoying, so I had to keep on checking the time as I was time bound today. For the last few minutes I focused on my index fingers and felt a pulsing and buzzing whilst trying to keep hold of all the other sensations breathing, hearing, seeing mainly. 

After practice, I shot off to the club,most took some notes to write this up. Played golf in the drizzle but it was fab. Love being outside. Hope you all had a great day!