The eight core drills in Training 1 are enough to continue.
These additional drills give you more ways to explore Position, Attention and Input when something in your starting conditions still feels unclear.
You don’t need to complete them all.
Choose the drill that addresses what you want to understand.
Choose a setup that feels comfortable and workable.
Make any obvious adjustments you need.
Then decide:
This is good enough.
For the next two minutes, make no further positional adjustments unless you become genuinely uncomfortable.
Notice the urge to tweak, shift or improve the setup.
You don’t need to obey every urge to adjust.
Learn when Position needs changing — and when it simply needs leaving alone.
Choose one aspect of your Position to explore.
For example:
Pelvic angle.
Knee position.
Leg spacing.
Elevation.
Upper-body recline.
Support.
Change only that variable.
Then wait long enough to experience the new setup before returning to the original.
You are not searching for the perfect position.
You are making cause and effect easier to recognise.
Change less. Learn more.
Create a Position that feels comfortable and sustainable.
Take a mental snapshot.
Notice your recline, pelvis, knees, supports, weight distribution and relationship with the device.
Then leave the position completely.
After a short break, rebuild it from memory.
Does it feel broadly the same?
What did you reproduce easily?
What did you forget?
You don’t need millimetre-perfect consistency.
Learn the ingredients of a setup you can return to.
Settle into Position, but don’t immediately investigate the pelvis.
For the first couple of minutes, let Attention arrive gradually.
Notice the room.
Then the support beneath you.
Then your breathing and the wider body.
Only then allow awareness to include the pelvis.
There is nothing you need to find.
This drill simply gives Attention somewhere to begin.
Arrive before you investigate.
Settle and notice what is present.
When a question appears —
“Is anything happening?”
“Was that something?”
“Am I doing this right?”
— notice the question without trying to answer it.
Return to the experience itself.
A sensation does not need to become evidence of progress or failure.
Experience first. Questions later.
Begin with awareness spread across the whole body.
Then move Attention to somewhere neutral — perhaps your hands or feet.
Return to the whole body.
Now gently bring Attention towards the pelvis.
Then widen again.
Notice how something can become more prominent simply because Attention moves towards it.
Nothing physical necessarily changed.
Attention can reveal sensation without creating it.
Settle and notice what you are deliberately contributing.
Choose one deliberate Input and remove it.
Wait.
Then, if another unnecessary Input is obvious, remove that too.
Wait again.
You are not trying to eliminate every Input or become completely passive.
You are learning which actions are necessary and which have simply accumulated.
Subtract one thing at a time.
Settle into your starting conditions.
For a while, reduce observation to just two possibilities:
If there is something, describe it simply:
Warmth. Pressure. Movement. Tension. Pulse. Pleasure.
If there is nothing obvious, let that be the answer.
Don’t search harder because the answer is quiet.
Nothing obvious is still an observation.
You don’t need to complete every drill.
Return to the exercises that clarify something for you, and leave the others alone.
Over time, Prepare should require less thought, less adjustment and less effort — not more.
Create the conditions. Then let them be.
Head forward to Training 2:
Head back to Training 1:
