Expanding Your Noting Vocabulary

One thing that I notice that is challenging for me as a novice yogi is that I have a hard time finding the right words to use for noting, so I decided it would be helpful to expand my noting vocabulary.

I found a link to a page that talks about sensations that I think is going to be useful for meditation:

www.larisakoehn.com/sensations-list/
www.larisakoehn.com/sensations/

I will post more if I find useful lists for emotions and states of mind.

"finding the right words to use for noting"

Cool links, but there are no wrong words for noting. Even if it only makes sense to you.

Hey Russell that's true but I notice that once I find the appropriate word for a specific sensation, emotion, or state of mind it is easier in future sits to identify and categorize that experience. It makes the flow of the sit smoother instead of having something come up and then spending a few moments trying to come up with a label.

Not sure if you've read the Earthsea series by Ursula Le Guin (I love sci-fi / fantasy) but here's a clip from an article that talks about "the Power of Naming":

"In her book A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin makes naming the basis of all magic power. In her School for Wizards the students must spend a dark year in the Isolate Tower studying with the Master Namer:

Ged sighed sometimes, but he did not complain. He saw that in this dusty and fathomless matter of learning the true name of each place, thing, and being, the power he wanted lay like a jewel at the bottom of a dry well. For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.

For Ursula Le Guin, to know the true name of a thing in the Old Speech is to have power over it."

www.readingmatters.co.uk/idea.php?id=11

This appeals to the sci-fi / fantasy geek in me and makes noting more fun. I notice that when I approach meditation with a more playful and experimental attitude versus a serious, no non-sense approach it increases my motivation to sit.

Great analogy and great attitude! I'll check that book out, I like reading geek fiction too.

I was only saying there are no wrong words because I see lots of people getting hung up on doing it "right" lately when its much more simple than that.

"I was only saying there are no wrong words because I see lots of people getting hung up on doing it "right" lately when its much more simple than that."

Yes I agree noting should not be complicated.