Meditation pro tip:
The more monotonous, mediocre and mind-numbing your job is, the better suited it will be for a concentration
practice.
Breath sensations, a mantra or some mental counting - it really doesn't matter.
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The key thing is this will improve your attentional skills in an environment that would otherwise degrade them.
Also often leads to cool trance and bliss states, so yay.
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An effective householder practice seems to be about 70% rigorous discipline, 30% dirty tricks like this.
Gotta take your practice where you can get it.
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Since I shuffle a lot of paper around, I find myself doing a lot of focusing on counting. Ascending and descending numbers.
Any activity that can be used as a framing device for the practice is also memory trigger: "oh, I was supposed to do this meditation."