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

submitted 4 months 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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[-] SolarBoy@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

Something else I've heard about is a water clock, which is basically just a pot of water with a small hole in it, where trips of water will fall out into a small bowl.

You basically fill up the pot of water depending on how long you want to sit and then it will start dripping on the bowl making dripping sound and then when the dripping sound stops you know it's time to stop

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