Speeding up your brain until it breaks (Part 2)

I actually ended up reading through all of Daniel Ingram’s book before I interviewed him. Something about the topic was really compelling to me. The meditation practice he used mainly, was called “noting.” With noting, when you sit down to meditate you don’t just focus on the breath or any one thing - you just make note of anything that enters your conscious awareness. So, you may start simple by only nothing the breath: “breathing in,” “breathing out.” But then you’ll move onto everything happening in the body - an itch on your nose, a pain in your back, a pain in your knee: “itching,” “hurting,” “hurting.” Now if you hear something, smell something or hear something in your mind or see something in your mind - you don’t get specific like “smelling baked bread,” “hearing raindrops,” “remembering face of train station attendant,” it’s just: “smelling,” “hearing,” “seeing.” And so on and so on with everything. So if you have the intention to scratch your knee or the intention to get up

I actually ended up reading through all of Daniel Ingram’s book before I interviewed him. Something about the topic was really compelling to me. The meditation practice he used mainly, was called “noting.” With noting, when you sit down to meditate you don’t just focus on the breath or any one thing - you just make note of anything that enters your conscious awareness. So, you may start simple by only nothing the breath: “breathing in,” “breathing out.” But then you’ll move onto everything happening in the body - an itch on your nose, a pain in your back, a pain in your knee: “itching,” “hurti