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How to time meditation without phone? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 week ago by SolarBoy@slrpnk.net to c/meditation@lemmy.ml

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Hi, I was wondering how people would time a 1 hour meditation session without setting an alarm on their phone.

I don't really want to keep my phone with me during meditation, but I do want to have a way to notice it's time to stop.

People somehow managed this in the past before phones existed right? So what would be a good way to do this?

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kitchen timer, if you don't care about the noise it makes. But I must say, timed meditation sounds like torture to me.

[–] SolarBoy@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

I often do meditation without a timer too. But I find it a good practice to try and do a certain amount of time, instead of however much you feel like. As that quickly turns into stopping meditation early to chase some interesting thought/idea.

Also, when meditating in the morning, it's good to know when you need to stop and start getting ready to go out. Otherwise I would be late very often.

Kitchen timer would probably scare the hell out of my partner. We have a very noisy one!