Daily Meditation (90 seconds, every day)
What it is
A daily meditation practice — minimum 90 seconds — practiced ongoingly as the training ground for the rest of EPI. The bar is set low on purpose: long enough to be real, short enough that no one can say they don’t have time. A practice done daily for 90 seconds builds more capacity than an aspirational 30-minute sit done twice a month.
⚠️ Status: proposed, not canonical. The 90-second specification
is new to the wiki — it appears in v5 strategy draft and is named there
as part of the Core Practice, but the team has not yet ratified it as
canonical. Source itself flags this in Open Question #10: “Are body scan,
mantra, and noticing-and-releasing the right three to offer as starter
forms? Should there be others?”
The move
A practitioner chooses one of three starter forms (or another if they have an established tradition):
- Body scan — moving attention through the body, noticing sensation without changing it.
- Mantra — silently repeating a short word or phrase.
- Noticing and releasing — observing thoughts as they arise, letting them pass without following them.
The practice is the point, not the duration. Many practitioners will naturally extend beyond 90 seconds once the habit takes. 90 seconds, every day, is the bar.
Why 90 seconds (from v5)
Because the bar needs to be low enough that it never gets skipped. A practice done daily for 90 seconds builds more capacity than an aspirational 30-minute sit done twice a month. It trains the sensation-awareness that S.E.W. depends on. It opens the quiet where something larger than the isolated self can be encountered. It makes the practice portable into every ordinary day.
Why EPI doesn’t teach a particular tradition
From v5: We don’t teach any particular tradition. We offer several simple forms as entry points. Practitioners are free to deepen their meditation practice with outside teachers, traditions, or paid trainings — those are not EPI, the same way therapy and coaching are not EPI.
This separation is consistent with principle-7 (no bolt-on modalities within the practice) and principle-16 (separation from paid work) — deeper meditation training is something a practitioner pursues outside EPI, not something EPI provides.
Facets served
- facet-translating-body-wisdom — trains the sensation awareness that all body-based work depends on.
- All facets benefit; this is the daily training ground.
Related principles
- principle-7 — no bolt-on modalities; the meditation forms offered here are entry points, not a curriculum.
- principle-9 — Spiritual, Not Religious. Meditation as a non- denominational opening to “something larger than the isolated self.”
- principle-16 — separation from paid work; deepening meditation training is the practitioner’s own pursuit, outside EPI.
Status notes
proposed, not canonical. The 90-second specification, the three
starter-form set, and the framing of meditation as part of the Core
Practice all come from v5 strategy draft (specifically Part One, “The
Core Practice — what we do every day”). Team has not yet ratified.
Source Open Question #10 explicitly asks: are these the right three? Who
writes them up?
What would move this to canonical
- Team agreement that 90 seconds is the right bar (not 5 minutes, not 30 seconds).
- Team agreement on the starter-form set.
- Canonical writeups of each starter form (currently named only).