AmbientAttentionYogaDayOne

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Today is the first day of the experiment. It's harder than I expect. Avoiding looking at the verts is a bit like playing Grandmother's Footsteps, or trying to sneak into a festival. It feels as though the verts are going to get me at any moment.

The verts exert a palpable force-field at the edges of my vision, as though they're trying to reach out and pull my eyeballs into their lovey shiny utopias. Though I maintain that this is a vacuum, or at best a malign force stemming from Invidia , as opposed to an active energy, it takes will to avoid lapsing and I fail several times.

Strategies/paradigms

It's a bit like giving up smoking using the ZenOfWon't method (simply procrastinate every time you have the temptation to purchase/smoke more tobacco), and involves the same sleight of mind.

Conclusions

• Working with the mostly-unconscious mind (ambient media, peripheral awareness, habitual inattention) takes a different set of tactics to the active force of will (eg 'I WILL get up in the morning').

• The ZenOfWon't method is underrated. Paradoxically, however, it requires energetic will to deliver a forceful Won't.

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