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> You should then spend 10 seconds trying to clear your mind before thinking about one of the three following images: >You’re lying in a canoe on a calm lake w
by Akronymus 5y ago
> You should then spend 10 seconds trying to clear your mind before thinking about one of the three following images:
>You’re lying in a canoe on a calm lake with nothing but a clear blue sky above you
>You’re lying in a black velvet hammock in a pitch-black room
> You say “don’t think, don’t think, don’t think” to yourself over and over for about 10 seconds.
So, I only have the last option available for me, due to aphantasia, which, in combination of not being able to just stop having a inner monologue makes the last option basically a no go either.
- ColinWright 5y agoI also have (in my case mild) aphantasia, and I'll not that it doesn't say you should picture these things, it says you should think about them. I find that thinking about these things does it for me, and I don't have to picture them at all. And reciting "Don't think, don't think, don't think, don't think, ..." over and over is a technique to help quiet the inner monologue, so that option isn't a "no go", it's a thing to try to assist you.
- Akronymus 5y agoFor me, trying to think of about an image just stresses me out. Will try the "don't think" though
- ineedasername 5y agoMaybe just skip step one, and jump right to the last of the next three: keep "don't think" to drown out the inner monologue. Pretty much what I do when my inner monologue is keeping me awake. Not perfect, but it works a lot of the time.
- mamcx 5y agoIn the nigth my mind go a full speed too. I learn to have the same "dream" that I repeat (with dialogue an all that!) then help to make the characters mumble and say things without clarity. Some times it works!