the reason for occupying the concious mind is to sneak past it to get the information to your inner mind, but the concious mind should ideally be making sure you keep the pace and state, and to keep your photofocus. youngprer probably has all these steps down pretty well, so anything extra to keep his mind distracted is probably ok. new people like me and u should probably keep it distracted with all the different things, page turning, keeping the state, photofocusing, and maybe even add the tangerine. usually all of these things become overwhelming to a beginner, so try not to add things too quickly. i try to just ignore keeping the state, it doesnt have to be 'kept' really, if your in it, just dont let things distract you or anger you. page turning is one thing to do, photofocus is a big one, and keeping the beat of "re-lax, re-lax, 4-3-2-1 is good enough and it helps you keep the state.
