I’ve never once in my waking life been without thought. I’ve always assumed it’s impossible to actually be clear of thought. I’ve meditated and can hold a thought if need be, but never can I outright clear them away.
Some people do apparently. Me I’m like OP its a constant stream of thought. Evening as typing this I’m actively reading the words.
Have you tried drowning out every thought with extremely loud music? /s (don’t do this tinnitus sucks and it’s permanent)
Jokes on you, I was practically born with tinnitus and didn’t know it wasn’t normal until my mid-20’s so child me normalized the fuck out of it!
Also, no thoughts head empty is only attained by the brain shutting off because its too tired to keep up any threads, but forgets to close the eyes/get ready to be off (aka go to bed).
Techno does this for me (but not no thoughts it just drowns out thoughts about things I’m not focussing on)
Thank you Giorgio Moroder for discovering the click track and adding a beat to each click to help future genres of music to drown out any thoughts. unce-unce-unce-unce-unce-etc
It takes immense practice, and I’ve found focusing on quiet music helps. It also helps if you like to practice Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming. You just ease into any thoughts that might come across.
The way I learned meditation is you’re not going to be rid of every single thought, so instead focus on sounds, focus on your breathin, be nice to yourself if a thougt does occur, and then try to focus back onto nothingness/w.e works for you.
30 minutes a day has really helped me feel more in control, when I can remember atleast.
The last point should say “… and stop halfway, because I don’t feel like it anymore”.
Or “… but get stuck halfway because I found something interesting in one of the drawers.”
In my case: stop halfway because you opened a drawer and found it needed fixing, and that is how I bought a metal lathe and didn’t clean the house for 3 months as I learned to turn my own knobs…. Then didn’t touch it for a year.
been gonna finish the cargo mod on my trailer for nearly a year. got all the parts. been gonna install the switch box for my generator to power the house for longer. been " in progress" of building the 8x8 storage shed in the back corner of my lot since january. built a 2x3x4 expanded metal cart to burn scrap brush in since last november. got a twin trunk tree half cut up for that.
I read this list in a completely random order starting in the middle. ¯\(ツ)/¯
I think they forgot “drop everything to make an intricately colored and formatted list”
Another wacky meme that describes 70% of my kid’s personality in one go, thanks
