Timeblock

Thinking

I have today off as tomorrow is a national holiday. There was some thinking on my end to do some work anyways, but I will not. Did a solid amount of the valuable kind of work last week. I focused on form, and thus was a bit slow, but could feel myself speeding up by the end. Next week should be solid.

Meditation (Day 29)

I think I'll celebrate each prime number as I pass them. They'll be getting rare enough to not be too numerous, but also they often come in pairs, which is fun.

Today, I avoided entering stage 5 (overcoming subtle dullness and increasing mindfulness). I wanted to see what would happened staying in stage 4, where I invoke continuous introspective awareness to keep gross distraction and strong dullness at bay. Two interesting things happened:

1. about three-fourths through I was getting bombarded with internal distractions
2. I definitely noticed progressive subtle dullness (not quite strong dullness)

It may behoove me to not do any stage 5 exercises for maybe a week and see if that helps progression to a clear mastery of stage 4 (mastery being "free from gross distraction and strong dullness").