ALWAYS THE SAME

It is possible that your awareness is attracted by the same sensory experience over and over. If that experience is in your focus range (what you are paying attention to), this is completely OK to notice (and label) the same experience repeatedly.

You may actually discover the experience is subtly changing over time or maybe it’s perfectly stable. In either case, it is still a perfectly valid mindfulness exercise.

In a mindfulness exercise, you are not trying to get a special experience. On the contrary, you are only paying attention to the actual experience however mundane or spectacular it might be.

If the repetitive experience you are pulled toward over and over is a distraction (outside your focus range), you just need to bring back the attention into the focus range every time your awareness drifts toward the distraction. You may find that spoken labels are quite useful in that situation (see above).

Even though this lack of variety in the sensory experience may appear not so productive and may not be so interesting, you are actually training your Concentration, Sensory Clarity, and Inner Balance skills in that situation too.