Specific: I want to learn about meditation and practice in short periods. This is not about having a meditation practice or being able to sit for long periods, just about learning and feeling comfortable with it so that I can choose whether to pursue it as a regular practice or a longer one, and so that I have information about one way of doing it to be able to learn more effectively from other ways.
*Why: I want to be informed and aware of meditation as a practice for my spiritual work and my spiritual life. I want to be able to reap the benefits of short meditation (concentration, mood, anxiety, stress).
Measurable: Learn a process and develop a setting/process that works for me personally for periods of up to 10 minutes.
Achievable: Yes.
Realistic: Yes.
Timely: There’s no definite date by which to do this so it is a little open-ended. I do, however, have this as a goal for 2012 so by the end of the year I would like to have this done.
Steps:
Identify a book to read and practice from. (pretty sure I have one in my “books to read in 2012” pile)
Assign the book to a month.
Read the book and practice steps, noting my responses and the effects (overview, preview, read, practice, notes, journal).
Do a short meditation practice as one of my “28 day” things this year.
Do a meditation of 10 minutes at least once.
Evaluate how this worked.
Decide if there’s a follow-up goal.
Steps completed:
Identify a book to read: Learn to Meditate (David Fontana).
Assigned the book to March.
Reading in progress. (page 66 of 151)
Some exercises done.
Next steps:
Continue reading Learn to Meditate (David Fontana). [Goal: Learn to meditate.]
Do exercises from Learn to Meditate (David Fontana). [Goal: Learn to meditate.]
Do 2” meditation. [Goal: Learn to meditate.]
