tips for what I should really do first?

[Eggnog]

I am going to start my very first session in creating Stephano.

I want his form to be a golden statue, and I know he will be fearless, intelligent, understanding and other traits.

 

I just don't know where to begin, exactly. I mean, I know I can picture him and sort of give these traits to him in visualized orbs or something, but I don't know how I should begin.

 

how did you guys start your first sessions? what do you do in your forcing time?

 

I'd like to know what you guys are doing, as most of you have a tulpa and are working on a second one, or you're like halfway through your first one.

give a newbie beginner tips on the first few sessions?

 

side note, I decided I will not be counting hours as this supposedly can be bad, is anyone else not counting hours here?

[Pashoo]

When I started, I just took one trait that I wanted and tried to relate it with another trait. How and why were these traits similar, and how did they affect each other? How did they affect my tulpa, and why did my tulpa have them? Afterwards, I simply moved on to another set of traits.

 

For example, my tulpa is reserved and fairly quiet, makes all her decisions slowly and deliberately, and she believes that the point of life is to spend your time enjoying yourself or appreciating the world around you. At the same time, she doesn't get angry easily, but when she does, she holds grudges for a long time. The reason they're all related: She believes that when you're angry, you're obviously not having fun, so she tries to avoid it as much as possible, but if you do something to genuinely get her angry, she feels that she had a good, legitimate reason to be angry. QED, she feels she has a reason to stay angry and hold a grudge.

 

Also, just to make it easier to visualize for myself, I imagined I was writing these things down in a book.

 

At least, that's how I worked everything out. And I used to count hours, but I don't any more.

[Eggnog]

would this work if I actually wrote these traits down and read them to Stephano in my head while I'm writing them?

or should I just stick to sitting quetly, mid-telling stephano his traits?

[Pashoo]

Honestly, I don't think it doesn't really matters. Hell, I swapped between both of those because I wasn't sure which one would work, but in the end, it accomplished the same thing. Personally, though, I prefer methods that involve addressing your tulpa directly and acknowledging its existence, ie talking directly to it and what.

[Eggnog]

what if I didn't even do anything with the personality and let him become his own character?

what would I do instead of giving him a personality?

[QB2]

No matter how many times I post "just get in and do it, start with any step or all at once, it doesn't matter, just randomly do something", it never seems to have any long-term influence.

 

what would I do instead of giving him a personality?

 

If you don't give him a personality, then you'll have to interact with him and see how he reacts and base the personality on that. Or maybe put him through situations and imagine how you think he'd react, or have him actually react.

It needs to come from somewhere though, obviously. A tulpa is personality more than most other things.

[Frosty]

I started working on personality, just enough to give me a basic idea of who she is. Like a very basic, general idea.

 

Now when I force I work on visualization and other random stuff, I don't really follow an itinerary or anything, and I narrate to her/think about her/do stuff with her pretty much constantly.

 

 

When she becomes vocal she can fill in the blank spots I guess. I don't really have anything to show the success of my methods, but like others will tell you, it's mostly about believing in them and interacting with them that counts, not so much following a structured creation format like you're following an owners manual or something.

 

Just do whatever works best for you.