Relsqui comments on Vipassana Meditation: Developing Meta-Feeling Skills - Less Wrong
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... two breaths per minute doesn't seem sustainable.
It isn't, but 4 is.
ETA: I have a string of meditation beads, 108 beads long. If I use it to count breaths, it takes more than half an hour.
Oh, that's a good idea. I've been wanting an excuse to make something like that for a while. But it does seem to contradict the keeping-still-ness.
What I do is curl fingers.
Count to 10 and back, curl 1 finger. When all 10 are curled, I begin uncurling. A full curl-uncurl cycle takes about 25 minutes for me, and is a good substitute for an alarm, I think. Little less stressful & abrupt at the end.
I guess I have the same question--how does this interact with the priority of keeping still?
I'm not sure. I'm very much new to it. I don't seem to notice any major difference between when I use an alarm and the finger curling.