Week 17 Day 1

Week 17 Day 1
Medi object choiceless
Intention observe pleasant vedena

Morning all! Today I am doing pre golf practice. Today's practice was 5 minutes metta and 25 minutes noting.

I started with metta for a baby fighting for survival and then extended it to my family. My father is finally leaving hospital on Tuesday, I saw some pictures of him and he is looking much better.

For noting I started with three deep breaths and then started to note  the rising and falling of the breath, I heard the ringing of my ears, heating noises and neighbourly noises. I felt my hands and my knees as one solid block and my feet were firmly on the ground. Every now and then a bird chirped outside the window. I could clearly see a swirly purple and green and black image show on my eyelids. I also could occasionally feel or notice my entire body as a warm being in this pleasant and quiet surrounding.

I got lost in one thought, it was about work - a planning thought but then I observed it as just a thought looking at it and watching it end. I also decided to think about thoughts of my father going home. And watched images of him walking around the house.

The general environment this morning was positive and pleasant. I found that I could easily focus on all the senses with the breath in the background - the movie show in front of the eyes and the house sounds and physical ringing of the ears. I allowed my focus to go wherever it wanted to and it focused on the persistent ringing of the ears and then it moved down to my hands. I tried to focus on my index fingers and did feel some pulsing and buzzing. I also tried to experience pleasant vedena, and realised  that this place felt safe  to explore this practice.

Thoughts of golf came into my mind starting of images but I  observe them until they finished.

I observe that if I meditate first thing I have the right amount of energy, there is no drifting off, and the observations seem more vivid. I think that I will have to try and change my schedule so that I can meditate at home before work at least for a few times during the week.

OK  now I'm off to golf! Hope  you all have a great Sunday! 🐽 💜 💜🐽

Ps I dictated this post and then edited it and Google talk wrote 'vagina' instead of vedena! Oh Lordy, now I know why people get into so much trouble if they don't review what they write! Hope you have pleasant vagina I mean vedena today! 😁