Try to keep the feelings going
I began working on a post listing miscellaneous ideas I have come to see as important. It became clear though that each idea was worth its own post. So here's one of them.
Consider this quote from JWH (RFP, 2020):
At first, a person with no habit of regular prayer or communication with an invisible friend, who wants to change his mental habits in order to turn off pause, might have to surrender anew every few minutes, in the beginning. But this surrender might become easier over time...
So we want to keep the feeling of surrender (it can include physical feelings, by the way) going steadily. During this time, when I have recently had the experience of turning off pause, I've come to see this as centrally important. And I believe the same holds true, to one extent or another, for other feelings involved in the protocol — for instance, the feeling of the presence of the “other,” the feeling of being comforted by the “other,” the feeling of heart expansion, etc. I think there is real benefit in being engaged with one or more of these feelings as much of the time as possible.
Think of it this way: You're not likely to turn off pause by engaging in the protocol for, say, 15 minutes a day. More is better, and I'm not aware of any amount that would be “too much” or “wasted time.” Ideally, you more or less want to be living the protocol.
Because I have engaged in dedicated sessions devoted to the two core exercises, this has, for me, meant adding in more sessions as well as trying to keep the dialogue going for more of the time between sessions. As I write this I am doing three sessions a day plus a walk devoted to the dialogue, with some additional mini-sessions thrown in. Currently I believe there is something to be said for slightly shorter sessions happening at a greater frequency. That approach seems to keep key feelings going more throughout the day. But my thoughts on all of this are always evolving.