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When doing the active excercises, what is the best way to time your sessions? For example - if i have 30 minutes to do SFQ and my plan is to do 3 of the active exercises for 10 minutes each, how do i best keep an eye on the clock without breaking concentration?

BTW, friends are all saying i look great, and i am enjoying a greater feeling of well being and generally happier and more energetic. also had a great personal insight upon waking in the middle of the night and seeing where I was blinded by my own habitual way of seeing something. not bad for a couple weeks of clumsily learning SFQ by myself including missing many days due to busy holiday schedule!

The audio tape was great for 30-minute session. You listen and do the exercises on one side one day and the other side the next. That way you do the hour of active exercises over two days.

If you do it with the CD you get to about half way of forming the energy ball. Follow that with the harvest of the chi. This makes it easy to follow the exercises since you don't have to watch the clock. You are guided to the next exercise.

Alex

Alex, thanks for reply. but when traveling and it isn't convenient to have the cd with me - it was actually nice to do active exercise to silence - except for always wondering about the time! anyone have any tricks for dealing with this?

Thanks,
Donna

Why not just focus on doing one maybe two of the active exercises for the time. Set a timer for the full time. About half time when it feels right to you switch exercises if you're doing two. You can do just one of the exercises for the full half hour. If you switch between two it doesn't matter if you spend more or less that 10 minutes on one.

I know I don't have a problem with this because I wear a watch that vibrates with 4 individual timers. You could use a motivaider which can count off set blocks of time.

Or a mobile phone with a vibrate feature for memo reminders might work.

Though I think it's easiest to stick with one or two of the exercises for the 30 minute block and trust my intuition to change exercises if I'm not using the tape or CD

Alex

thanks much. very helpful answer!

d.

just did a search on alarm timers and found one that had a lot of positive reviews specifically on using it for meditation. so i ordered it! (will report back how it works later.)

see www.invisibleclock.com (i got mine on ebay)