Sunday 24 January 2016

Exercise to Increase Self-Observation and Concentration - (728)

Exercise - Ten Minute Timer

If one acquires a 10 minute timer, I really like the old fashioned sand timers and one dedicated one to observing their thoughts for 10 minutes and being very vigilant to not allow oneself to get identified and carried off with any of the thoughts.


This exercise done constantly and regularly strengthens our will and our concentration and sharpens our self-observation.

Gradually we should also increase the time from 10 to 15 and then to 20 and later to 30 minutes.


Benefits

We really need a sharp sense of self-observation to see the thoughts that cause our egos to react. Without a sharpened sense of self-observation we are too slow in the work of dissolving the ego, because we simply don’t catch the initial thoughts of the ego that make it to react. We miss its protest, its concepts and its beliefs. Without concentration we can not meditate on the ego and apply ourselves to observe the ego. So concentration and self-observation go hand in hand and this exercise really helps to develop these two things.


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