Week 18 Day 7

Week 18 Day 7

Medi object choiceless
Intention to be equanimous and observe how thoughts come and go.

Morning all!  Today it's quiet and it's an environment with pleasant vedana to practice in, temp just right, neighbours nor scraping around or arguing upstairs.

I started with 5 mins metta for baby Dean, every day is precious.

At the start of practice I noticed a familiar whirring noise which I had always thought was my laptop. I was listening to that intently and had to bring my attention back to focus on my meditation object in metta.  When I started noting, I started with the breath and this whirring noise in mind I moved to listen to this noise and concluded that it was my sky box. Having worked out what it was I felt more settled and tried to keep my peripheral awareness as wide as possible. I noted the rising and falling of my breathing, then I observed any light in front of my eyes, I could hear the sound of the whirring and also the ringing in my ears. I felt my hands on the knees and my feet in my slippers firmly on the floor.

I had more relevant thoughts today in my awareness. These were thoughts of planning as I am going on a road trip tomorrow I started to think of what to bring the thought then just passed. A thought about an incident in the golf club came up and I  watched that and felt some irritation, and then I watched myself hit a golf ball with ease....the irritation disappeared. I had a couple of dominant itches , one on my right ear and I could feel my hand about to go to it but instead I observed its rising and eventually passing. In between it was very intense, I noted how it really calls apon the habit of scratching. At the same time I felt another itch on my nose not as extreme but still as demanding. But as ever in the end they faded, but I can still feel the itch on my ear. My neighbours are slowly getting up so I can hear some activity upstairs. Today I did not look at the clock at all,  I resisted the urge to check the time and the timer behaved itself and the bell rang for half time and then finally for the end without consultation.

I felt that for most of the time I was focusing on my meditation object and my peripheral awareness was very strong I felt that I was ready for anything. I did note the slightest start of a nod towards the end and I  congratulated myself as this is a much earlier note than ever before.

Off to golf, hope you all have a great day and a great practice.