Out with the babe again at dusk today. Today she listened and looked intently around, then nursed and slept in her sling, which left me free to focus my attention on my senses. I sat in the yard again today, since I can't ascend the tree with her, but tonight I easily maintained my focus on the happenings around me rather than on the happenings inside my head.
Many cars, and many robins singing a couple different types of songs. Made me eager to learn bird language some day. Their short, quick squeak of a call - is that their alarm call? They would do that one from tree to tree, seemingly saying it back and forth to one another, but another bird kept singing a lovely fluid song in the midst of all of them, and didn't seem alarmed by the robins.
I am finding that the stillness I experienced last night was fairly easy to tap into when I began my sit tonight. I remember that right about in the middle of the challenge was when this happened last year, as well. It feels as though I've awoken my senses thoroughly enough to be able to call on them more rapidly, helping me move into a "sensing" state and out of my "doing" state. I've also found tonight that I've "remembered myself" (to use Gurdjieff's phrase), or remembered to check in with where my attention was, quite frequently even after coming into the house, so my awareness is starting to reawaken in the other areas of my life now, too - not just during my sits.
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