I meditated for the first time in a long while today. I was very distracted, wanting “fun”, bored, frustrated. That’s how I’ve been feeling at large, lately - it was just more noticeable while meditating because everything else was stripped away.
I tried a new form of noting: During (or after) a given emotion arose I “noticed”, There was distraction that happened. Rather than “I was distracted”, I sort of externalized it to some unknown coordinates in the universe in an effort to help not identify with the feeling. There is impatience, instead of “I am feeling impatient”.
It’s a subtle difference, but it may be helpful.