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I forgot to mention it. It's still in my routine, it's just kind of stagnated at 5 mins when I wake up/5 minutes when I go to sleep/breaks throughout the work day. It's something I would like to spend more time on, but I have to get over this attitude of always needing to be "productive"/in motion. The ideal goal would be sitting for 30 minutes in the morning and doing a 30 minute walking meditation in the evening and spending a bit more time on it during the weekends.
If I were you I'd try to look at whether the subjective mental experience of being productive/in motion is the exact same as the external activities corresponding to it, or not.
A lot of things can be accomplished with less mental activity and more peace, than what most persons believe.
I'm coming to realize this as well. When I do a single thing at a time almost anything is relaxing.
Multitasking doesn't even exist, but we act like it does. Rumination and crystal ball gazing doesn't really work either, yet almost everyone engages in it. Could call them mundane insanities.
One thing that's odd is that the mind has some sort of habit of re-establishing an aversion to just being focused and chilled out in the Now moment. I still get this sometimes, in fact I'm struggling with it today. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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