r/Mindfulness • u/rivamiriya • 2d ago
Photo Clicking my way out of autopilot
Every time I catch myself living on autopilot, I press a button on this little tally counter strapped to my finger. That click reminds me to come back into the moment and think: I’m here.
We joke that the number on the counter is our “Level of Awareness” — like we’re grinding XP in real life.
Why bother with a clunky counter instead of just remembering? Because the thing is big, awkward, and keeps nagging me to notice it. Plus, seeing the numbers go up is fun — it turns mindfulness into a kind of game.
So yeah, apparently I’m speedrunning enlightenment with a finger gadget.
Has anyone else tried weird hacks like this to stay mindful?
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u/Knitmeapie 2d ago
“Speedrunning enlightenment” is the most absurd phrase I’ve ever heard. Good things take time and you don’t need “weird hacks.”
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u/rivamiriya 2d ago
Why not? I like speed as a way to do things
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u/Month-Character 2d ago
Because speed is anathema to mindfulness. Its about letting go of control, not wrestling it to the ground as fast as possible.
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u/Frolicks 2d ago
Agree. This smells of spiritual materialism, gym bro culture.
Admittedly tho I do think it's pretty cool
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u/franzmaliszt 2d ago
i see your point, yet hard to not reas this as “my mindfulness is better than yours “
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u/Month-Character 1d ago
Sure, but can we agree that there are tenets that must be fairly uniform to keep this from becoming "I mean, whatever makes you feel "mindful" whatever that means." And I don't intend this as a slippery slope argument. They specitically cite "speed" as the reason they are doing this. Do you think that someone who needs to get mindful as fast as possible for it to feel worthwhile is actually accomplishing anything? Or as has already been said, is this about gym bro BS to show your hustle?
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u/52134682 2d ago
Where did you get it OP?
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u/Silent-Lagoon 2d ago
I got one of these at a craft store. It’s meant to be used for counting rows or stitches when doing fiber crafts!
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u/servantfollower 2d ago
What's wrong with autopilot?
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u/rivamiriya 2d ago
Nothing, I suppose. It's just a choice - to opt out of autopilot mode and to try live aware. By living aware I sometimes notice some mind patterns that I don't like and try to rewire them. Sometimes feels cool, sometimes feels useful, sometimes I have doubts why I even do this 😅
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u/gregNOWwatch8 2d ago
I wear a watch that just says NOW :D
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u/rivamiriya 2d ago
Did you buy it? Did you craft it?
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u/gregNOWwatch8 2d ago
I have a small niche store, I have mostly watches that don't tell time, watches that just say NOW. Mindfulness reminders.
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u/rivamiriya 2d ago
I had been actually thinking once to create or find something very similar. Do you deliver to Russia?
COOL THINGY!
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u/mds1025 1d ago
This is a form of control an can become a psychosis
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u/EmojieOnly 1d ago
No. They are not.
Unless you're taking drugs or something like that you are not doing anything that risks psychosis.
Simply repeatedly doing something will not cause psychosis. It may be a symptom of a psychosis, one that is already present, but it will not cause it. And I'm not suggesting this is a symptom for OP.
An easy way to discredit what the commenter is suggesting is that we all* masturbate. That in itself released extreme amounts of feel good chemicals in the brain yet the act of masturbating doesn't cause a masturbation psychosis lol.
It's such a silly premise.
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u/brbrrws 2d ago
using ai to write entire posts isn’t mindful