Silence of Mind...
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@chrisa do you know John C lilly ?>
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@dimitrios-kanellopoulos No, just googled - a scientist ?
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@chrisa yes. One of the first western people to find “higher grounds”. He created the isolation chamber and wrote some fascinating books.
He teached many western people.
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@dimitrios-kanellopoulos just read some articles on his website. Very interesting, thanks for the information. The experiences he made in this isolation tanks sound familiar to experiences to the ones you can make in traditional meditation.
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@chrisa
I know what you mean - used to reach it occasionally when racing dinghies - its a high like you can’t believe and it seems as though you can do no wrong as you integrate with the waves, wind, hull and sails.Very hard to reach though, especially when racing in multiple crew dinghies/yachts. Can also not be too good sometimes too, as I go into a mini habit of switching off when I had a really annoying crew who never shut up. Both learnt a lesson the one day - me not to switch off/ him to shut up and save talk for important stuff, not drivel - when I boat came in through our side (he had been distracted talking drivel and had seen it very late as had been hidden by our sails, and thus warned me very late, I was ignoring his drivel and didn’t pick up on him freaking out until it was too late…
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Difficult to demonstrate silence of mind if you’re using the watch to navigate a route (offloading from your mind having to think about where you’re going and just following prompts as and when they alert you) - when you get THREE notifications for every turn!
This remains my biggest bugbear with the S7. Small problem but annoys me no end (and probably has a significant impact on battery time when following a route).
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@nigel-taylor-0 interesting, yesterday I was thinking about the same after my hike, but with opposite conclusions!
Using TbT from Komoot I actually looked at the map much much less, knowing I would get a vibration 100 meters before each turn I didn’t have to look at it at every intersection, I know that if it didn’t vibrate I could just keep going
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@nigel-taylor-0 said in Silence of Mind...:
THREE notifications for every turn!
I agree. I get incredibly annoyed by notifications too. They distract me. I much more prefer to have a permanently visible next turn arrow at the bottom of navigation screen. Then I can just glance at it from time to time and be aware of when my next turn is. That is possible with a Garmin watch where it displays next turn at the bottom of map and all notifications can be individually configured.
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@jamie-bg I always admire you guys cruising on the sea! As exciting (as you describe) I always find the oceans to give one so much peace (assuming there is no storm coming in
). Just watching and listening to the waves - it’s mesmerising 
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@sky-runner said in Silence of Mind...:
@nigel-taylor-0 said in Silence of Mind...:
THREE notifications for every turn!
I agree. I get incredibly annoyed by notifications too. They distract me. I much more prefer to have a permanently visible next turn arrow at the bottom of navigation screen. Then I can just glance at it from time to time and be aware of when my next turn is. That is possible with a Garmin watch where it displays next turn at the bottom of map and all notifications can be individually configured.
Oh, I prefer notifications - but just one per notification please!
Although - I do like the idea of a stat that is “distance to next RoutePoint” that I could choose to put as a data item on a screen.