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Are you lying to your app?
Angling for ‘App’roval
These are my stats.
I use an app called Insight Timer for my meditation practice. Not only is there an astounding array of teachers, guided meditations, and music selections on there, it also keeps track of how often I meditate, and for how long, etc.
These apps are great — until you get more attached to the app than the practice. Like when I skipped meditating the other day and decided to sort of ‘back allocate’ some moment of mindfulness into the missed day, calling it a ‘session.’
It wasn’t a session. I didn’t sit down to meditate. I just was conscious of my breathing for a few seconds while walking my dog. While that’s a lovely thing to do, it’s not a meditation session.
Back-logging it on the app is, um, lying.
This gets interesting when I sit with Why.
Why am I trying to create this unbroken line of meditation sessions? Why does it matter? Nobody but me looks at my stats, so who am I impressing here?
Ah, yes.
I’m trying to impress you.
