Saturday, June 17, 2023

Robots Don't Freak Out

 This playful Ten Percent Happier meditation led by Jeff Warren.  On the podcast, it's called 

According to the website: Be like a robot and try this light-hearted noting practice. Give your anxiety a break by immersing yourself fully in your external senses.

Warren starts with a couple calming breaths - in slow, then out on the count of four.  Keep your eyes open.  Then, at a rhythm of your own choosing, begin noting sights, sounds, thoughts.  Say: "Hear" or "See" or "Feel."  Make your voice a bit robotic.  You are calm, noting like a metronome. 

Initiate your noting sequence.  It's like you're pouring your attention outward.  Go at a pace that works for you.  Long exhales. Yoke your noting to the end of your breath.

Robots don't get rushed.  Keep the rhythm going.

Warren thanks his teacher Shinzen Young, a very skillful robot.

(I just thought of the connection between "noting" practice and "noticing.")

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