# Spontaneous (Freestyle) Noting

**URL:** https://wepractice.discourse.group/t/spontaneous-freestyle-noting/16
**Category:** Social Meditation Library
**Tags:** buddhist-geeks
**Created:** [December 5, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://wepractice.discourse.group/t/spontaneous-freestyle-noting/16 "2025-12-05T17:23:15Z")
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#### Post date: [December 5, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://wepractice.discourse.group/t/spontaneous-freestyle-noting/16/1 "2025-12-05T17:23:15Z")

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**Description of the practice:**  
We use 1-2 words to describe our present moment sensory experience.

**Example notes:**  
Hearing  
Breathing  
Thinking  
Relaxing  
Body sensations

**Observed Effects / Potential Benefits:**  
Noticing sensory phenomena in the present moment, cultivating concentration.

**Origin Story:**  
Created by [Kenneth Folk](https://x.com/KennethFolk) - this is one of the first, most basic and most widely used practices, probably created in the very beginning of Social Noting/Meditation. It’s inspired from Mahasi Sayadaw’s method of insight vipassana meditation focused on momentary concentration.

**Video Recording:**

[![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/uploads/wepractice/original/1X/f9792c4aa3cb77f054a1dc032af582e3104d2b62.jpeg "Freestyle Noting, 20 mins, 19 Aug 2025 - Focused and Concentrated") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMGD3qWHMfU)