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Be careful that you don't gather too much data with this step; don't get caught up in details; notice them, sure, but remember that an RRC is an exercise meant to heighten your own presence among these these things (and your local reality), and not to heighten the presence of objects around you. So collect some data, but as it relates to you... for instance, instead of feeling the texture of that bag, think about why you are holding it, about the stuff inside it, and so on. Gathering data like that is not a bad idea, though, if, say, you include it in your RC.
OOPS!Thanks I was doing it wrong.
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I'm not sure I understand your words here, but in case I do: When you ask yourself where you are, you should leave it at that: just see where you are, period; if you're standing on a stairway in your house, for instance, just acknowledge that and leave it there. In questioning where you are right now you are more establishing your position -- a baseline for the rest of the RRC -- and there's no real need to add more to the wondering here. Oh, and if you do not know where you are when you ask that question, then take a moment and make sure you're not actually dreaming!
So you mean I should mind my physical location at this time?
I meant that I think about my mental and emotional position;If I'm happy now how was I feeling the last time?was I happy then too or sad?why was I sad?How do I feel about the thing I was sad of.Still important for me that affecting me or not...
If I'm relaxed now how was I feeling last time?If not relaxed then why...
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I highly recommend that you find a way or the time to ask, answer, and wonder about all the questions in the same time frame. Splitting them up tends to turn them into something else, and the value of the RRC may be lost... asking the three basic questions (where am I? Where was I? Where will I be?) establishes you in a specific position in your reality, a position from which you can comfortably wonder about your place in it; leave out one or two questions, and suddenly that position loses definition, and your RRC loses its impact.
So:
1-I ask myself where am I(mental,physical or both?) wonder and think about it.
2-Where was I.(if should mind mental position too then is it good to analyze the reasons?Why I was sad,is the reason still affecting me...)also what about physical location?Does it matter which time I think of?
3-Where will I be.Just wonder it...
4-Collect some data.What am I carrying,Why?
Why I'm walking?going somewhere or just bored and walking around?etc
5-Try to remember my day by reversing it.
What was my location before?If I'm in the bus now then before that I was waiting at the bus station?.
If now that I'm in bus don't have anything to do before this I was talking to my friend while waiting for the bus then separated..etc
6-My effects on others and vice-versa
7-RC.
The first three as you said are basics and shouldn't be separated.what about the others?
Thanks:D