Week 28 Day 7

Medi object choiceless awareness
Intention to remain alert and receptive

Morning all! Today I practised for 45 mins with 5 mins metta at 25 mins.

I felt quite lively today unlike the last few days. The first sensation that I observed in noting was a fuzzy cheerful brightness in front of my eyes.  There were no patterns just light. It was of a very uplifting quality. For the first 15 mins or so I observed a lot of 'sights' in front of me my eyes. Some were plain, some had swirls of green and some were mingled in with images which are thoughts I suppose.

Today's thought content was of the things that have happened and will happen in the next few days. The scenes are as though they are happening now. They start with a memory or a planning image.  For example an image of my travel adapter came to mind. Then I saw myself packing an extension lead....never have enough sockets in a hotel room. Thanks self! Also I noted I have plenty of room in my case as I have used a method of packing which means my clothes are in a neat parcel. Marvellous or should I say merveilleux as I am off to France tomorrow.

Most of the thoughts were short scenes mixed with current images - my background on my phone, cliffs from Jurassic  World ( which I saw yesterday) and packing!

I checked in on my alertness and found that I was preparing for the checking in by perking up the alertness just before! Mmm sneaky mind eh?!

Metta at 25 mins for 5 mins was reasonable although I had to keep drawing myself to the focus. 

For the last 15 mins I kept my eyes open but on two occasions I realised my eyes had closed!  So I endeavoured to keep them open and spotted at one point that they were closing and pried them open. It's the Trooping of the Colour today (for the Queen's birthday) and I could see flashes of red and black in the corner of my eye from the telly. That explains why there was a small group of Welsh Guards marching past our office yesterday (I work near Whitehall very near Horse Guards Parade). As I write I'm waiting to see Queenie inspect the parade..oh I can see Prince Charles and The Duke of Edinburgh in their bearskins and she's just standing on a covered dais.

Anyhoo definitely more upbeat today, getting over the hormonal session last week!

Off to an exercise class shortly. You may be surprised not to hear that I'm not off to golf...occasionally I'm not in the mood 😨 usually because I have too many deadlines. Have to finish packing, get to the 40th dinner dance of the club tonight in posh frock and then up at crack o dawn to catch the Eurostar tomorrow so no time in my head for golf, particularly since the weather is a bit rubbish today.

Hope you all have a good weekend as I now march out of my house to the sound of military brass bands! 🐽💜🐽🎺🎶🎺

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