More 10x Counting

For a couple of years I would try to pause every 15 minutes and count out 10 breaths. Sometimes I would go for more than 10 breaths, sometimes I wouldn’t even make it to 3 before my mind had wandered. I would jot down the number of breaths with blue ink.

Sometimes I would forget completely. I would use red ink to mark that.




Eventually I went to a 20 minute interval, and the color coding scheme, because I noticed that when I looked back at my logs, I generally focused on the red and blue, not the actual data written in blue.

Al-Muhsî gone awry?

(the counter, the appraiser, the reckoner)