Faced with an unpleasant situation, a person can very painfully experience it, exhausting himself with negative thoughts. If the situation is really difficult, experiences can literally drive you crazy or make you commit a rash act. Being depressed, a person would be happy to free himself from the tormenting thoughts.
Instruction manual
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Is it possible to free oneself from thoughts? Yes, but it is a very difficult task. In many spiritual teachings, liberation from thoughts is considered one of the keys to the vision of true reality, therefore, the technique of stopping internal dialogue is given great attention.
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If the task is to get rid of unpleasant thoughts, creeping into the consciousness again and again, use the principle of "wedge kick out wedge." Drive out unpleasant thoughts with others - for example, read something, watch an interesting movie. Listen to popular music. It is very good if you manage to find a “sticky” song, the words of which will spin in your mind.
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In the event that you are really in a difficult life situation - for example, someone close to you has died, the tricks described above are unlikely to help, at best they will allow you to forget for a while. If you are a believer, try to turn to God with a request to alleviate your pain, to relieve heavy thoughts. Help can come in seconds. The only condition is the sincerity of your request.
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This may not be about current issues - you may just be tired of the endless internal dialogue and want to stop it. In this case, you should take advantage of special practices that exist in almost every serious doctrine or religion. For example, if you are a Christian, use the so-called Smart, or Jesus, prayer. Read about it at Ignatius Brianchaninov ("Ascetic Experiments") or at Archbishop Anthony ("The Way of Smart Doing").
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You should know that the purpose of Jesus prayer is not to stop the internal dialogue, but this stop comes as one of the results of practice. While praying, pay attention not only to words, but also to pauses. It is during pauses that you stand before God in complete silence. Gradually increase the length of the pauses, the criterion of correctness here is the absence of thoughts, especially outsiders. If thoughts arise, reduce the pause. Remember that the practice of Jesus prayer involves a high degree of humility and a lack of pride. Before you do it, be sure to read the instructions of the Holy Fathers, and better than once.
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If you are not a religious person, try a different path - just watch your thoughts. The task is difficult, you will now and then forget that you wanted to do this. But if you don’t back off, the moments of remembrance will come more and more often until you begin to observe yourself almost constantly. In this case, thoughts will simply disappear, you will gradually learn to be in complete inner silence. At the same time, the absence of thoughts is not mental degradation - on the contrary, you rise to a new step in cognition and development.