Last Week Total: 6,967
Practice 3: Wednesday (10/7)
3,780 dots - 25 minutes - Common Room
I find that counting these dots is much like the breathing exercise, for my mind constantly strays away from the task at hand and drifts to somewhere in the past or the future. This makes counting difficult. At the same time, I think it works as a great training for meditation. Where in a breathing exercise, if I lose my concentration, I may not realize it for several minutes. If I lose that concentration, I stop counting, and I immediately notice.
Practice 4: Friday (10/9)
3,626 - 25 minutes - Dorm Room
It seems that my most constant/frequent interruption of my concentration tends to relate to "worrying" about how much time is left. Since I am such a competitive person, I feel as if I need to be completing more and more dots. I find it ironic that this very thought is what slows me down. Maybe that's a good conclusion I can draw from this daily practice exercise--thinking is a powerful interruption.
Practice 5: Saturday (10/10)
3, 526 - 25 minutes - Dorm Room
Today's practice seemed to go by much quicker than usual. I didn't feel as motivated today to bring my mind back to the counting, so I constantly drifted off somewhere else. However, the counting was never really interrupted. I imagine the numbers as text in my mind now, and I rarely have to speak out loud. This process is starting to become more subconscious-- so I will need to work harder on bringing my mind back.
Practice 6: Sunday (10/11)
3,664 - 25 minutes - Dorm Room
I went into this daly practice worried about how soon I was going to get this post up for tonight. Going into one of these sessions with an actual thought worrying you completely changes the practice. Instead of bringing my mind back from small tangent thoughts, I had to drag myself away back towards the counting of the dots. It seems as if the number didn't decrease, despite this set back. I'm fairly surprised by this.
This Week's Total: 21, 563
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