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Un-alarming timers for meditation and the (10+2)*5 hack
Merlin Mann | Nov 21 2005
If you're a beginning meditator, you may share my distraction of sometimes wondering "How long have I been doing this?" It's easy (and desirable) to lose track of time, but it can be worrisome if you need to be someplace later and are nervous about falling sleep or the like. Commentor Ruth recently pointed us to Zencast, a site that does podcasts on Meditation, including an introduction to meditation series. Haven't listened to any of these yet, but I was pleased to notice that their first three shows of the podcast are just "timers" for meditating. Each is an MP3 of 10, 20, or 30 minutes in length, and they each consist of a "Music for Airports"-like wash of ambient music at the beginning and end of the session and just silence in-between. The 20- and 30-minute versions also feature unobtrusive tones at 10 and 15 minutes respectively. Handy way to get time off your mind (a meditation hack?). In a similar vein, don't miss Hernick's alarm-free MP3 for running the (10+2)*5 hack. As he says over on the board:
Both the mediation timers and the Dash tune are clever ways of having alarms without actually having alarms. 19 Comments
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You may also want to...Submitted by Dave S (not verified) on November 22, 2005 - 9:46am.
You may also want to look at the Invisible Clock. It's not free, but I spent the money on one, and it makes for a great way to come out of meditation. You can have it beep or vibrate, and select the vibration level as well. I usually meditate while listening to a similar recording to Jason M.'s (Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village Meditations), but I like having the earplugs in, so I needed something else to time me. Invisible Clock » POSTED IN:
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