10% of your Total Attention per hour: Some Results
November 1, 2006
First of all here is how I’ve been doing with this experiment:
I am able to dedicate 7 minutes of intense focus in every hour to meditation (I focus on stillness sometimes with a little creative visualizaiton other times). At home, I have totally slacked off. I have been able to use conscious action when I’m with my daughters or doing chores, but I really need to intensify this practice at home.
What have I discovered?
I have had a couple of interesting experiences. I had a couple of meditation sessions in which I felt a very pleasurable warmth surging softly up my spine that followed an out of body feeling in which I felt like an insubstantial single point of what I can only describe as “total acceptance”. I’ve also been getting more familiar with my inner space. I am familiar with the pattern of thoughts that rise up inside of me. I can feel myself triggered emotionally by certain events. Overall, it has been pretty enlightening.
My level of concentrations has increased as it has become easier to calm my mind. I will continue this experiment for another month or so.
[…] Last week while performing my 10% total attention experiment on my toilet escape, I had a warm vibrant red/orange energy moving up my spine. It felt so damn good. Like my first erection, only on my whole body. Then I had a sudden impression of “blessing correction”. You see, I normally try to give blessing to everyone I see at work in the form of “God, bless you.” But a question popped in my mind, “Who is this ‘god’ who is blessing? Is it a pagan, symbolic image in your head that you worship? Why bless by proxy? Bless directly from the heart. From the heart of the God within. That is the most honest and loving blessing you can give.” […]