Hi Everyone,

How do you keep track of how long you have been in meditation?

I often use a commercial CD that has a minute of relaxing music at the start, fades to nothing and then fades the music up again at the end. The one I have has 5 min, 10 min and 20 min long tracks to chose from but the 20 is finally getting a bit "short"

Otherwise I just go with the alarm clock on my phone set for when I want to finish. A bit “jarring” but I like it more than trying to look at a clock all the time and / or going over time.

I would like to make a CD (the computer is not near where I practice) with a length of silence i.e. 30 min then a “chime” or a “beep” another 20min of silence and then a “finish beep”.

Any programs out there that can do this? If I can find something that would also make a beep tape with a 12 sec / 8 sec intervals that would be good too.

Currently all I can think of is leaving the recorder going and doing it live

Thanks in advance

I have this one:

http://www.now-zen.com/cgi-bin/orders/shop...D=%21ORDERID%21

a little pricy but I love it



Harry

A stick of incense.

Then you might like to have a look at:

http://www.harmonicsystems.net/buddhabell.html

http://whenderson.blogspot.com/2006/11/med...n-timer-12.html



Harry

There are many dynamics involved. for me, it's best to keep it open ended.
many possibilites are there, but if time limits are set, there is in a sense already a degree of contrivance.........

Sometimes, only 2 minutes can be so powerful, that it ends right there.........other times, 2 hours can feel short...............


i just like to be fluid with it, be open

Radio Shack makes an inexpensive kitchen timer which counts either up or down.
It has a quiet beep which is not disturbing. It also stops beeping after apxox five beeps
so you can continue your meditation or yoga pose if so inclined.

I have a kitchen timer that beeps a short beep 10 minutes and 5 minutes before the time, then continuos beep. so I would set it for 1 h 10 minutes and when it beeps first i have a 10 minute window before I have to turn it off.

Also the program 1Time is good. I get sounds from this site- and use this "bowl" sound.

if you want a really basic way of making your cds, you can download soundforge, this is a recording program tht you can play with all your on music and make gaps for as long as you want

soundforge rules...but it aint cheap

I pretty much never keep track of how long I am meditating...I just do it until I feel like I've had enough. I think sometimes its a good thing, sometimes...not so much

Thanks for the replys everyone.