How can I concentrate for a long time?

[motherless]

I'm making progress very quickly, I can feel responses in the first days of forcing, but the main problem is that it's hard for me to concentrate on my tulpa for even a few minutes most of the time. I'm often surrounded by people or I just get distracted or I can't imagine his appearance even if I try. I'd say it's bc of taking antipsychotics, but I had problems before them too, so idk. Passive forcing is the best for me and I didn't have any problems with it before, but now I can't do it properly anymore

[An Ashy Individual]

You could try reminding yourself of your tulpa by swapping your phone background to something that reminds you of them, wearing something that represents them (bracelet or necklace), etc.

You could also use focus assistance, such as forcing while looking at a specific stuffed toy or while listening to a specific piece of music or so on.

[M00n_lyt3_999]

i get it, i have adhd so it's rlly hard to think of one thing for a while. what i like to do is take some deep breaths and only focus on that. if you find yourself succeeding, try to visualize your wonderland and draw your attention to that. if that doesn't work, you can find something that keeps your full attention and go off that :)

[Jim Liu]

You don't HAVE TO pay full attention. You don't have to be fully serious on that. How do you talk to your friend? Joking? Chatting? Tulpas are only a 'special' friend of yours. You can do other things while talking to them, and you don't have to imagine their image when talking. Just do things that make you most confortable. Many hosts don't like the concept of 'forcing', so do I. You just talk and chat, that's all you have to do.

[Mesmer]

Have you ever tried doing the imagination focus excercises from Franz Bardon's Initiation to Hermetics? Part of the challenge there is to think of nothing or the void for 10 minutes, then focus on one things for 10 minutes, then back to the void for 10 minutes. If you struggle with attention, reading short books to boost attention can help. Harry Potter and Alice's Adventures are short and stimulating and can help build the mental muscle to focus on something. Then you can try something like creating a sigil for your tulpa and imagining the sigil in your head while forcing your tulpa.

[Wildblume]

Try to find a quiet place. Purchase a good pair of over-ear headphones that dim the sounds from your environment. Make sure they're cabled, as wireless headphones emit EMF radiation which can give you headaches over time. Listen to nature sounds at a volume that mostly drowns out people in the background. I like TheSilentWatcher.

 

Once you have that setup ready: Sit down, close your eyes and do simple mindfulness exercises like focusing on your breath, how it feels, how it sounds, and nothing but that. That way you learn to focus on one thing at a time. After a while, you can use this skill to focus on your tulpa. You can find guided meditations on YouTube which may help, assuming you have a quiet environment. For example this and this.

 

If it's possible to stop taking antipsychotics, then that's worth trying in combination with the above, but I don't know your situation.

Edited January 12 by Wildblume