Week 25 Day 2

Medi object choiceless awareness
Intention to remain alert and experience raw sensation before mental elaboration.

Evening all! Today I practiced for 35 minutes - a metta noting metta sandwich. I enjoyed the metta so much at the beginning of the session I decided after the 30 min bell to do another 5 minutes which was just as enjoyable.

Today's metta was focused on my niece. I felt the strong loving feeling remain a while into noting.

Noting began with the breath today. I had itches in places that I haven't had before! I had to deal with a few but the others faded. As I observed sensation by sensation, sometimes the ringing in my ears would come into focus and split into several different sounds, and different intensities as well. I also often felt focus on the warmth of my hands on my knees. There was a running commentary by my neighbours upstairs accented by coughing.

I did feel a little drifting, but only around the 20 minute mark,  I decided to stop noting at 30 minutes.

No back ache today which is unusual, I guess it varies from day to day, the sounds of the day were very loud  birdsong, the heating clicks along with my neighbours' conversations.

This morning I did attempt to meditate on the tube but I was feeling very exhausted. After about 20 minutes of fidgeting, I decided to read some of the 30 DOM material instead. I thought I was going to be able to meditate during the day, but wasn't free to do so.

In the end, evening meditation is not that bad I just need to make sure that I don't leave it too late and eat something beforehand to energise myself for the exploration!

Hope you all had a very nice day, and that tomorrow is even nicer!

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