My Mind Just Wanders

[Willylibertine]

I'm new here, I'm not sure where this should go, but I'm having lots of trouble focusing on trying to imagine my tulpa, even with a dark room and lots of silence, every time I try my mind just tries to do it's own thing and rather than hearing their voice all I hear is music

[Linkzelda]

Usually, I would say just go for concentration exercises, spam them until they become an industrialized process, and call it a day. But I think expressing a mentality shift might help out a little.

 

Our mind is going to wander in all sorts of places—it’s not surprising to have convoluted and conflicted thought patterns going around. And us being aware of that monkey mind of ours, we may think concentration is trying to make all of our mind internally consistent. Instead of trying to go against that wandering and fluctuation, I take it in a different approach of getting the chance to approach it in a procedural manner.

 

If you see it as trying to sift through the monkey mind first, and embracing it for a little bit, and eventually manipulating those experiences for tulpa-related context, that scattering can be a supplement. You might end up talking about squirrels and a Stein Mart credit application with your tulpa for all we know, but the idea is that you’re still trying to communicate with them (directly, or indirectly)—it’s just the context described seems non-sequential.

 

I made a guide on image streaming where over time, you could have a better grasp as to what you want to do, but with the added appreciation that it’s okay to see your mind deviate from things for you to go further on—you see it more as a blank canvas where it’ll be hard to run out of ideas.

 

Here:

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1guub6JF0OGVheUPzddtMyZKHqnrcnuWLYufwGhc3Fmc/edit#

 

But, that’s just my opinion on it, and it’s just one of many ways to hopefully soothe your concern. Long and short of it, I use it as a way to embrace the monkey mind, but having it still align to the bigger picture you have in mind. But the more restricted and limited you want it to be, then yeah, you might get a backfire on the scattering becoming a hassle because…you are stepping into mental territory that’s fluctuating without you even knowing about it all the time. I did it one-rhino-breaking-my-china-plates-at-a-time, and I haven't regretted those experiences because they added up to eventually having better control of what I wanted to focus on with them.

[Willylibertine]

Usually, I would say just go for concentration exercises, spam them until they become an industrialized process, and call it a day. But I think expressing a mentality shift might help out a little.

 

Our mind is going to wander in all sorts of places—it’s not surprising to have convoluted and conflicted thought patterns going around. And us being aware of that monkey mind of ours, we may think concentration is trying to make all of our mind internally consistent. Instead of trying to go against that wandering and fluctuation, I take it in a different approach of getting the chance to approach it in a procedural manner.

 

If you see it as trying to sift through the monkey mind first, and embracing it for a little bit, and eventually manipulating those experiences for tulpa-related context, that scattering can be a supplement. You might end up talking about squirrels and a Stein Mart credit application with your tulpa for all we know, but the idea is that you’re still trying to communicate with them (directly, or indirectly)—it’s just the context described seems non-sequential.

 

I made a guide on image streaming where over time, you could have a better grasp as to what you want to do, but with the added appreciation that it’s okay to see your mind deviate from things for you to go further on—you see it more as a blank canvas where it’ll be hard to run out of ideas.

 

Here:

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1guub6JF0OGVheUPzddtMyZKHqnrcnuWLYufwGhc3Fmc/edit#

 

But, that’s just my opinion on it, and it’s just one of many ways to hopefully soothe your concern. Long and short of it, I use it as a way to embrace the monkey mind, but having it still align to the bigger picture you have in mind. But the more restricted and limited you want it to be, then yeah, you might get a backfire on the scattering becoming a hassle because…you are stepping into mental territory that’s fluctuating without you even knowing about it all the time. I did it one-rhino-breaking-my-china-plates-at-a-time, and I haven't regretted those experiences because they added up to eventually having better control of what I wanted to focus on with them.

 

Are ther any other things you would suggest if this method doesn't work?

[Guest]

Different types of noise seem to do it for some people. I'm working with pink noise right now, and while it doesn't cause my mind to stop wandering entirely, it makes focusing one one thing easier as long as I'm actually making an effort on my part.

 

Try a couple types, or some other types of aural entrainment noise. If you're lucky, whether they really work or not, you'll get some placebo-effect, and it'll be great anyway.

[Linkzelda]

 

Are ther any other things you would suggest if this method doesn't work?

 

 

Woah, can't believe I forgot about this, but you can try out binaural, or isochronic tones. I usually go for the Alpha wave ones, and actually use those in my sessions as well. But other than that, I'm pretty much useless to you at this point.

[Willylibertine]

 

 

Woah, can't believe I forgot about this, but you can try out binaural, or isochronic tones. I usually go for the Alpha wave ones, and actually use those in my sessions as well. But other than that, I'm pretty much useless to you at this point.

 

I might try those, as well as possibly meditating and repeating their character/appearance in my mind.