Day two! Im posting everyday because im used to it as i already kept a personal progress journal for almost a year now. Please tell me if this isnt correct! I repeated the sound practice as yesterday, with the same results. Yeah, it took me 6 years to be able to get 7 sounds for 3 seconds or so, and i think probably at least half a life is necessary for getting to 8! I always tried to figure out some sort of different approach te get it, but it seems theres no way around after all ;(. As for walking, im able to maintain 2 sounds with a normal vision and body awareness, with a little bit left to barely notice other sounds without losing awareness of vision/body. I think im doing this till i can be a little more aware of the rest of the sounds. On the touch meditation, i really wasnt able to find any other sensation to add, so i focused on maintainig awareness of everything, which i did pretty well! I would like to know your thoughts on something, tho. Its a sort of technique my yoga teacher used to do to maintain awareness of many things: he would give each thing a name and visualize them as a group of individual "balls" Then, the idea was to let the balls order without influencing, and make two groups, be aware of one, then, the other for a while, and then try to fold them into one. His idea was that the mind would be trucked into thinking theres only two or one sound to be aware of, for example, and then it would be easy to do it. This given, on practice he was only able to do it with 4 to 6 things, so it wouldnt be useful for the sound practice, but it may be for being aware of other things. (Obviously, i have never even tried as i know its impossible for me, at the time being at least)
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