gwern comments on Vipassana Meditation: Developing Meta-Feeling Skills - Less Wrong

23 [deleted] 18 October 2010 04:55PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (106)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: gwern 19 October 2010 08:31:03PM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: Relsqui 20 October 2010 07:22:42AM 0 points [-]

I guess I have the same question--how does this interact with the priority of keeping still?

Comment author: gwern 23 October 2010 08:41:11PM 0 points [-]

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.