But that's the extent of my hooking skills. The recipients love me, so they kindly wore the hats, mistakes and all, through the winter. DD admired a simple crocheted cap in my presence. Hey, I even managed to crochet several hats as Christmas gifts last year, after Mr. I admire crochet I can manoeuvre a hook well enough to trim something. Several of us wanted to make this object of great beauty, the Intermezzo Scarf, found here. Or sit and just breathe:Ī customer came into the LYS last week with a lovely scarf. Let them guide you, but don't allow them to become another set of objects blocking your path. There is also Insight Timer Lite, another meditation timer app and pocket Meditation Retreat, which has cute graphics and sounds, but which I haven't found helpful.Īlthough not meditation apps, I also use the free metronome app for my "Heart Like a Wheel" meditation, along with Buddha Board, which works in the same way as a physical Buddha Board does. It has brief, clear instructions, settings for time, a beginner's level with 2 breath patterns and 5 levels of breath timing on each level and includes an automatic log which records each of your sessions. This app allows you to follow the breath in various rhythms and patterns. Pranayama is breath work I find it difficult to maintain a regular rhythm without guidance. The most helpful meditation app I've used is pranayama lite. For me, this app is a better option than setting a regular alarm or kitchen timer. Also annoying.) I've not had problems timing a session or using the mindfulness bell on its own. Sometimes the mindfulness tone gets "stuck," and can only be fixed by ending the session. (You have to hit "Okay" after the tone, which is annoying. There is the option of adding a mindfulness bell tone at intervals from 1 to 60 minutes during a session. This app has a simple timer, with a meditation bowl sound (2 choices) to mark the beginning and end of a session. They come with a minimum (or no) advertising.įirst up is zazen lite. The apps I use are free, through iTunes and are loaded on my iPod Touch. Until then, technology has some handy tools to guide us, in the form of iPod applications. Once we steady ourselves, the supports can fall away. We need to get ourselves to a studio, to focus on an object, to be mindful of something, at least at first. Sometimes, the strangeness of it all leaves us unable to settle enough to find a beginning to our practice. Here's the other thing: this notion of just sitting is foreign to our Western minds (and bodies). It requires nothing more than a space, a cushion, time and you. Sitting in meditation is a wonderful thing. Sometimes we have to separate the words from the speaker!) (Note: Chogyam Trungpa's life and teachings are interesting, to say the least. Create virgin time, uncontaminated time, time that hasn't been hassled by aggression, passion and speed. Maybe that's a good one, wasting our time. Nobody would actually ever do that.It's terrible-we would be wasting our time. It is a very interesting point that nobody has experienced that we can actually sit on a cushion without any purpose, none whatsoever. (Walking meditation is sometimes allowed as a secondary practice.) In the words of Chogyam Trungpa: Here's the thing: in many meditation traditions, sitting on your meditation cushion, simply sitting, being there, is seen as the only way to meditate. If we always listen to our music players when we walk the park, we miss the joyful sounds of birds, children, traffic, reality. Although I am grateful for these things, I know that technology can overwhelm us, adding barriers to our experience of life.
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