Stop thinking

[Spectre of the spam]

I can, but I have to think about not thinking. It seems counter intuative, but it works for me.

 

[professor goodstain]

Meditation does work. The kind of meditation that works for me is forced upon myself. By way of having to concentrate on breathing rhythm, form and figuring out a way to manipulate time in a run. In that run, that meditation is applyed during a repeat or mile 23+. Thinking has since overtaken the times before mile 23 and intervals between repeats. But that thinking that overtook those times includes the concentration of style, being that i am self concious due to thinking. I've noticed that if i'm in the middle of concentrating/meditating hard enough the thinking is nonexistant by the act of what is called the non-selfconcious farmers blow.

 

[professor goodstain]

A person is sleeping. Then something or someone wakes them. That person sometimes remembers the dream and sometimes it is a complete blank. A person is awake. Then something or someone interupts that persons thoughts. That person sometimes remembers their thoughts and sometimes it is a complete blank.

 

[BerberElla]

i can't shut it off but i don't overthink things all day everyday that would be exhausting and completely unhealthy i think...but when i am in overthink mode i can't really make it stop.

Same here, sometimes I can get stuck rethinking round and round and trying to turn off my racing my mind at that stage is near impossible, but sometimes I can change what I am thinking about by following a tiny thread of a different thought to a whole other subject. That's fun.

 

[Salomé]

You can be conscious and not thinking about ANYTHING?
That IS weird.
I can't always articulate what I'm thinking about. But I'm always thinking. I think .... Would I know if I wasn't? For me thinking and consciousness are synonymous.

 

[pippi]

Like seriously people will ask me what I'm thinking and I be like "I wasn't".

Hmm, doesn't seem normal

When people ask me that, I have to stop and choose one of the 5 things I was thinking about to tell them. Occasionally I rattle off all the things I was thinking, without filtering, that does not go well.

You sound more normal than I do.

 

[Synarch]

You're never not thinking. You just have to switch the focus of your consciousness.

 

[Lady_X]

You can be conscious and not thinking about ANYTHING?
That IS weird.
I can't always articulate what I'm thinking about. But I'm always thinking. I think .... Would I know if I wasn't? For me thinking and consciousness are synonymous.

oh...is that what they're saying? i don't know if that's even possible is it? mine vary in intensity and volume i think...i thought it was because i'm a bit anxiety prone but now i think it has to do with ne or something maybe...shit i don't know...i don't want to think about it anymore!

 

[wolfy]

At any one time I can be...

completely wrapped in a train of thought
completely zoned out and thinking about nothing
in the flow of the moment, completely focused on the task at hand

 

[garbage]

Whenever I'm not introspecting, I'm thinking about what I'm taking in from the external environment. All the time. It pretty much never stops.

 

[ThatGirl]

What?

 

[The Outsider]

I don't think I really can stop thinking.
I try meditating every now and then, but it is very hard for me.

 

[nanook]

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[Udog]

What is this thinnk... theenki... thinking thing of which you speak?

 

[Costrin]

I pretty much never stop thinking.

And the thought of not thinking is hard to envision

 

[Synapse]

I used to be unable to switch off my thoughts then the opposite happened where I used to be unable to think.
The extreme of it was like a TV buzzing around all day and night, the ideas floated without being switched off. Recently it was like a sponge, you couldn't get any idea in even if you used a can opener.
Luckily now I've reached a happy medium in my brain where I can switch on and off my thoughts with a bit of extra concentration for both, confuses me when I get a bit torpid, feels like catatonia.

 

[wildcat]

You create thought?
Thought creats you.

You cannot be thoughtless.
Thought can be youless.

 

[527468]

You create thought?
Thought creats you.

You cannot be thoughtless.
Thought can be youless.

I think Ti is two different things. A number logic and a world of stone. Not all ITP have both. Someone should fix the theory.

 

[Mort Belfry]

If I don't like a thought I can sometimes make myself think about something else, but then I still have to think about something. But sometimes a bad feeling/thought can just colour a whole day.

 

[Lasting_Pain]

Yes. I am normally very silent inside.