How We Do 9 Sec

• from: 2008.09.04 01:00 - PaB T-Shirt or Tattoo?  

Artemisia Svoboda: how about you others, do you have experience with the 9-sec exercise?
Fael Illyar: Yes, I do them all day, usually.
Artemisia Svoboda: all day… does that mean once an hour? once every few minutes? Just curious…
Fael Illyar: every 15 minutes … well, except when I sleep
Artemisia Svoboda: so when you started doing it, did you have any tricks to help you remember?
Fael Illyar: Yes, I still have a bell sound going off every 15 minutes.
Artemisia Svoboda: wow, what a commitment
Fael Illyar: I’ve found the 9 seconds to be very useful :)

   

• We also do 9-sec together during the meeting

from: 2008.09.07 19:00 - What's REAL?   

Rowan Masala: Shall we begin with one, to get things rolling?
Threedee Shepherd: yes
Rowan Masala: ok, 9seconds now
Rowan Masala inhales deeply and smiles
Rowan Masala: What were your experiences, just now?
Threedee Shepherd: calmness , tinged with a familiar *edge* of certain work that needs to be done that I am finally energized to do.
stevenaia Michinaga: hmmm a blanket-like sensation of layers within
Rowan Masala: I found myself back in my body--seems I'm too much in my mind and screen and keyboard. I hadn't even noticed until then that my sore throat had gone away
stevenaia Michinaga: a good thing to notice
Rowan Masala smiles, nodding. thank goodness for Tylenol
Adelene Dawner: I'm surprisingly still tense from earlier. I was *livid* at a coworker today, and I'm not now, but my body is still doing stress behaviors.
Rowan Masala: 3D, when you said you were finally energized for your tasks, where do you think the energy came from?
Threedee Shepherd: acceptance as opposed to annoyed resistance

• from: 2008.09.07 01:00 – Beginning PaB exercises    

Artemisia Svoboda: and do you do it every day?
Gaya Ethaniel: Yes as much as possible when I'm around my computer.
Gaya Ethaniel: Also when I'm not, I ring my internal bell to do a break whenever necessary.
Gaya Ethaniel: When talking to people in some situations, I also do a kind of 9 sec before replying/speaking
Artemisia Svoboda: yeah, somebody else talked about that too
Gaya Ethaniel nods
Artemisia Svoboda: does it change the way the conversation goes noticeably, for you?
Gaya Ethaniel: Yes. Often it enables me to step aside and ponder in order to make more meaningful contribution
Artemisia Svoboda: That sounds like it's really worth trying
Artemisia Svoboda: and put aside my fear that people could be annoyed
Artemisia Svoboda: if I slow down the rhythm
Gaya Ethaniel ponders first
Gaya Ethaniel: Yes it has been useful to me. I'm not so caught up in myself with emotions running in the background. Also as you mentioned, it does slow the interaction down, giving all parties useful pauses

• from: 2008.08.25 19:00 - Take it away, Threedee!   

Threedee Shepherd: During the 9-sec I TRY to observe the Being of the now, whatever that turns out to be. I "think about it" later
Neela Blaisdale: For me, at least right now, it simply feels like a very strong sense of general connection. Also with a greater sense awareness, in that I hear, feel , smell etc more sort of at the same time
Neela Blaisdale: My sense, no pun intended, from listening to others here, is that what we experince in the 9 sec varies a lot from person to person. No one particular experience
Corvuscorva Nightfire: It does seem that way. I am relieved to hear it.
Threedee Shepherd: Thanks Neela, I was just about to say that :)
Neela Blaisdale: No right or wrong experience, just whatever it is
Adelene Dawner: ^.^ @ Neela. "Exactly!"

•     From 2008.08.24 - We are Young and Finding our Way  

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doug Sosa: I find that being tired, cranky, sleepy, or distracted makes the practice more, not less, worthwhile, because mind is revealed in these moments.

doug Sosa: I like to do the 9 sec without preparation, and keep doing what i am doing (coasting with the momentum) and letting go of assumptions and seeing and being seen.