catherine jane:
Hi thanks for your reply, I am naming ( or sometimes just being aware of ) the part of the body I can feel from moment to moment as quickly as I can , also if there are any thoughts I categorise them ( ie memory, planning etc. ) about 5 per second .
I'm not sure how your noting practice is but make sure that 95% of your note is the actual experience and noting once a second is good to get you used to hanging out with what is in the senses and then to deepen the practice by reducing the striving for a special speed of noting. It's more like doing very little but seeing what's happening without a goal. Just keep seeing phenomenon arise and pass away. Thoughts aren't to be blocked but they are not to be added to. Keep in mind that all automatic thoughts and automatic senses are operating at the same time so noting your sense of "self" behind the eyes, and the back of the head will help weaken the conceptual location of the "self".
These practices helped me unstick the automatic functions from reactivity so I could tell the difference:
http://www.albigen.com/uarelove/awa_instructions.aspx
If you find that noting is getting too much in the way of touching experience I would recommend some practices from Shinzen Young:
http://www.shinzen.org/Retreat%20Reading/Return%20to%20the%20Source.pdf
These are more like 3rd gear practices by Kenneth Folk and if you can't stay there long then going back to the 2nd gear practices (Awareness watching Awareness). If you can't stay there long either then going back to noting will help. You want to feel the good and the icky feelings arise and pass away without repression or without any doing to change them. As your brain gets to really KNOW the reactivity then reactivity is less of a problem.