Counting steps or progress
Often you need to count the
progress of some activities like meditation, walking, chanting mantras, cooking
etc. For instance, I need to chant some mantra 21 times, walk about 3 km on my
terrace, wait for 6 to 9 whistles on the cooker and take to similar counting in
other activities as well.
In the case of walking, if I
assume that one step is 1.5 feet, I need to count 3250 steps to cover 3 KM
distance. It is easy to count the steps in units of say 100 steps. If I walk in my terrace, the floor has lines marked
on the ground in squares of 2‘X2’. I can count how many ups and downs on each
vertical or horizontal line, to calculate the total distance I have covered.
If you have Google Fit or
similar App on your mobile phone you can easily measure how much you are
walking. Google maps also tells you the distances if you are moving in a
vehicle. But these are approximate and not accurate. The results vary from
person to person. Try this with your friend walking along with you, using each
other’s mobiles – you will be surprised!
When you want to count say
200 steps, count the first hundred from to 1 to 100 and the next 100 from 100
down to 1. When you are counting in the reverse your memory and concentration
increases!
Do you use counting beads
while meditation? Why do you have 108 Rudraksha beads in such a counting
device? Any clues?
Some random thoughts to
generate random ideas. What idea struck you and how did it impact you?
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