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How do you use the rating/comment system here?
pinyaka — 14 years ago — in Meditation Questions
pinyaka — 14 years ago — in Meditation Questions
I'm not even sure how to rate meditation sessions on a scale of 1-10, much less figure out what to say abou them. What are other people doing?
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NEBULABUFF — 6 years ago — permalinkWell, my ratings start first with the fact of making it through my thirty minute session. If I do it's automatically a 6. Beyond that, 7 is pretty average, 8 is really great; 9 is catching a boat on this side of the river, and 10 is crossing over and leaving the boat behind. As you might expect, a 9 is on the verge of 'enlightenment' and 10 is 'gone beyond'. For me, an 8 is really a great session. Hope this helps. Blessings!▲
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NEBULABUFF — 6 years ago — permalinkI suppose I ought to further define 'Really Great' (8). That would be that I maintained complete awareness on my breathing throughout the session and complete detatchment from all intrusive thoughts. Hope this clarifies my rating system a bit more. Blessings!▲
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davidbhayes — 14 years ago — permalinkFirst and foremost, I'm of the opinion that just keeping some log of "did or didn't meditate today" is a really valuable thing for keeping yourself honest and doing it regularly. I think everything else Medivate does--track time, let you give it a numerical "feeling" value, say things about it publicly and privately--are just unnecessary but nice bonuses. But if you don't like any of them, I'd not worry to much about not filling them in.
For me, the "how it felt" field is essentially about the balance of positive, neutral, and negative thoughts and feelings during the session. Generally, if a session feels like a struggle throughout, like a chore, etc I'll give it a lower score. And if it feels really pleasant--I'm enjoying my time sitting there and finding the sensations of (for example) the breath quite pleasant, I'll give a higher score. If the session is a mix of those two, or just lacking much of either, I'll generally give it a 5.
For comments, I just put things that occur to me to say about it. Generally they're notes related to the number I gave for "how it felt". Just what kind of things were distracting, what kind of thoughts came up, what sensations were dominant. (And with respect to the public/private divide: anything I wouldn't mind people seeing goes in the public comment.)
All of this bonus data can be interesting to just look back over. (Medivate's tools for this aren't as robust as we might like right now, but they're a start.) There are graphs that utilize the time, but also one of the "how it felt" field which makes it easy for me to identify times when meditation was harder or easier and puzzle at why. There's a basic word-analysis that points out to you words you've used frequently in recent meditation log entries and their occurence in past entries. There's also a basic search engine to find out when you were talking about "back pain" or "fidgetting" and what you said.