Mostly I think measuring things is besides the point of meditating, but I’m not going to stop you, only warn you that it’s creating a feedback loop that encourages you to identify with meditation attainment that may eventually leave you stuck in a local maximum.
Wholely agreed: the goals of meditation are internal. The kind of external measurements I can perform will at best capture the shadow of internal changes, and the measurements themselves are going to distract me from meditation. (Literally distract me, as in be a common cause of mind wandering.)
However, this experiment is part of a ploy for myself: I desire the respect of this community; plus I want to keep promises that I made to myself → I need to follow up on the measurements I said I would do → I need to meditate regularly.
I expect the net effect to be positive, but how about this: if I find myself not meditating, or stuck at a particular point, and I think the measurements are largely to blame, then I promise to stop measuring.
Mostly I think measuring things is besides the point of meditating, but I’m not going to stop you, only warn you that it’s creating a feedback loop that encourages you to identify with meditation attainment that may eventually leave you stuck in a local maximum.
Wholely agreed: the goals of meditation are internal. The kind of external measurements I can perform will at best capture the shadow of internal changes, and the measurements themselves are going to distract me from meditation. (Literally distract me, as in be a common cause of mind wandering.)
However, this experiment is part of a ploy for myself: I desire the respect of this community; plus I want to keep promises that I made to myself → I need to follow up on the measurements I said I would do → I need to meditate regularly.
I expect the net effect to be positive, but how about this: if I find myself not meditating, or stuck at a particular point, and I think the measurements are largely to blame, then I promise to stop measuring.