OK - Just tried it out. I didn't use a timer this time. It was interesting. I feel like I was able to put aside the surface thoughts, but then there were the secondary thoughts - you know how you can be thinking two things at once. That second level I had to keep pulling back from. Almost felt like going cross-eyed. I'm begining to think I'm addicted to thinking. It did seem to work better for me if I became an artistic observer and saw the object as something I wished to capture the essence of. (It was shiny so I started looking at the reflections and inside them.) I think I'll need a few more gos to get this technique. I kinda want to do it more than once a day.