Hi,
I'm wondering if anybody else on here has had trouble settling on a
specific duration for their sittings. I have often "decided" to meditate for, let's say "40 minutes, no more and no less, for the next six months" and then, after a few weeks of practice, felt that it might help me more to meditate for longer. But then, after meditating for, let's say 50 minutes for a few weeks, I'd think that that's "too much" and revert back to 40.
Basically the impetus behind such flipping back and forth is the idea that there's an "ideal" or "optimal" duration for my body-mind that can sustain itself through varying circumstances. However, after years -- as embarrassing as it sounds, it's the truth -- of obsessing over such a petty issue (and going back and forth on it), I'm coming around to thinking that all of that is just BS -- I just need to pick a duration and stick to it through thick-or-thin.
Of course, it makes sense to want to sit for longer and longer as one's skill develops, but that's a different thing than assuming, at the outset, that there's an
optimal duration for my constitution, so to speak.
Told you it was an odd question!