Every day, I meditate for around 30 minutes. I have an app to track my mindfulness minutes that has a neat feature: every X minutes it vibrates on my Apple Watch, reminding me to stay in the meditation.
This seemed like a useful feature, and it helped me quite a few times staying focused into the meditation.
But today that app failed. Probably because of some OS update. It didn’t vibrate.
I usually put a timer, as a backup, to be sure I am notified when the time ends, and since that feature was broken, I realized that it wasn’t likely helping me.
What I wanted to train was my ability to notice that I’m not in the flow and go back. That timer helped me go back, but didn’t help me be aware that I was losing focus.
Relying on it too much reduced the quality of my meditation.
Come on, give me the chills 