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How to time meditation without phone? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 8 months ago by 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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[–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months 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!

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