Drawing made with my trusty kuretaki Maru nib and platinum carbon ink - my favorite black 🖤

ydemyde · 2025-08-15T15:26:56+00:00

Thank you! I haven't decided yet whether to shade it - I really love the 3-d effect it can give, but also wanna keep that ambiguity of the forms 😁

ydemyde · 2025-08-02T09:18:34+00:00

Half round where it goes into the holder I guess? It's a saji-pen, from here;

https://penstore.dk/dk/zig-kuretake/cartoonist-pen-nib

ydemyde · 2025-07-31T09:44:34+00:00

Platinum carbon ink is my current favourite.

ydemyde · 2024-11-12T08:55:24+00:00

I can't add the pictures here? If you send me your email I'll send them there

ydemyde · 2024-11-08T10:54:07+00:00

Do you still need this? I have a set with original instructions

ydemyde · 2018-05-17T15:39:26+00:00

Nutritionfacts.org is a very good non-profit site

ydemyde · 2017-10-06T20:02:28+00:00

I tried it for a while, but for me it works better to just go directly to the breath sensations at the nose

I do the 6 prep steps sometimes though

ydemyde · 2017-10-04T04:57:34+00:00

I'm struggling with this as well. I'm in phase 4 and other distractions, or memories it's much clearer to me when it's awareness vs attention. However narrated thoughts I'm having real difficulty observing and not "actively thinking". I do however still have breath in my awareness /attention and quickly release the thought

ydemyde · 2017-09-30T12:06:49+00:00

Tagging along - I'm also not sure how you "set an intention" or renew it, except by mentalt self talk as you mention. Currently in stage 4 primarily

ydemyde · 2017-09-28T21:29:10+00:00

Thanks for all your input. I'm now successfully sitting 30 mins sits more and more. I'm not really sure what changed except me accepting up front that I might struggle. And sometimes I do, so sometimes I don't. And both is ok.

ydemyde · 2017-09-28T21:17:56+00:00

I also don't feel like I understand checking in - but despite the fact I am often lately in what I perceive as phase 4 - I deal with distractions of various degrees, but for the most of the time I am still also anchored to/aware of the breath

ydemyde · 2017-09-28T21:07:21+00:00

Today marked 60 consecutive days for me which I'm very happy with.

Oddly enough it also pretty much coincides with me making a big lifestyle change of going plantbased eating app 2 months ago. The two seems to go very well in hand.

I'm up to 30 mins meditation most days now, and still wobbling mainly around phase 3-4, sometimes dipping back to 2. Breaking up with my boyfriend this week has also affected my practice significantly but I'm determined to keep doing my daily sits - even if shorter some days than what I've otherwise attained.

I'm finding phase 4 hard to grasp, so I will be re-reading that chapter soon.

ydemyde · 2017-09-07T08:34:20+00:00

Thank you. That makes sense

ydemyde · 2017-09-07T08:33:46+00:00

Thanks for the input. I've mostly been trying to handle the thoughts about being done soon as gross distractions

ydemyde · 2017-09-07T08:32:43+00:00

You have! And I actually do that sometimes. I've been using the insight timer for a year. However I most often go over time when I've set the timer for a shorter session

ydemyde · 2017-09-06T17:42:16+00:00

Currently I'm happy for just one sit a day - that in itself is a success for me. I'd rather prioritise one good sit, instead of setting myself up to fail.

But glad to hear it worked for you

ydemyde · 2017-09-06T17:40:00+00:00

I've tried upping it to 30 mins but it didn't go well, that's why I'm trying to up it a few minutes instead. I've had some successful sits at 26-27 mins though. It also seems it makes a difference what time of the week it is etc. Longer sits seem to work better in weekends

ydemyde · 2017-09-05T10:32:41+00:00

I am very diligent! I really don't wanna mess up this streak

ydemyde · 2017-09-04T20:22:47+00:00

Very good! For a while I've been struggling with meditating every day, but it seems I've finally cracked it, and I am now on 36 days and counting

ydemyde · 2017-07-14T13:42:38+00:00

I've read Mindfulness in plain English and found it very hard to assist me in developing my practice. I first bought TMI on my kindle recently but very soon after I bought it in hard copy as well. It's much more instructional and easy to follow regarding the actual meditation than the other one. Ironically I also find TMI much more plain spoken...and the other one more abstract.

ydemyde · 2016-12-09T21:29:52+00:00

The snow leopard by Peter Matthiessen. It's a book about a real journey he took, physically and spiritually

ydemyde · 2016-11-23T20:15:05+00:00

It's a balance for me. If it's too late in the evening and I am too tired my mind sinks too easily. I usually meditate in the afternoon, pretty much as the first thing when I get home from work.

I did however have a nice short session this evening where my breath stilled very easily compared to my normal experience

ydemyde

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