Forcing questions.

[brian.draugelis]

Hello! I'm Brian. This is my first post on here, and I'm new to basically everything having to do with Tulpa. I've done about 1.5-2 hours of forcing and I feel like I'm doing it wrong. I'm trying to create a personality for my Tulpa but I feel like I'm just sorta throwing thoughts around in my head instead of telling them to my Tulpa. Am I supposed to feel like this? Am I doing this wrong? Also if you have any other tips about anything to help me build my Tulpa that'd be great!

[Kiahdaj]

Greatest tip anyone will ever give you: read.

You'll find that most to all of your questions can be answered if you lurk enough.

 

Sure, it may not feel like you're doing anything when you're first starting out. But first, are you sure that you are in fact speaking of the traits to your tulpa, and not just thinking them to yourself? That's important. Yes, your tupper may not "exist" yet, but it exists in concept; you merely direct your intent to this entity that you are creating. As long as you are consciously directing it toward them, you can't really go wrong.

But yeah, lots of people complained that it seemed like they were talking to themselves in the beginning.

[Dramolin]

Hello- if you haven't done it already, I suggest to really get to know the character, the collection of traits, you're trying to "create". Have a solid idea of just what kind of person (human or not) your tulpa is and get a feel for what someone like that would feel like. Once you've done that, talk to them like they're there- because they are. The way I look at it is that your tulpa is already there, even if you didn't know it before hand. Borrowing an allegory that I believe Michelangelo used when describing sculptures, he/she/it already exists and it's up to you to try and remove the excess and bring it to light; bring it out.

 

Like Kiahdaj said, you have to direct your words and/or thoughts *to* your tulpa and not to yourself. Throw it out to the "darkness", if you have to, like calling out in a pitch black house. They're there and you have to know that. Soon enough (I've only been at it for a little over two weeks), you'll feel their presence. I wouldn't doubt it if you've already started, if you've given it some more forcing since you posted this. Even if you haven't yet, keep going at it. Also, again, read more, like he said.

[Dog]

I would read lots of guides so you actually know what you are supposed to doing. Once you know that, it gets much eaiser.

[Linkzelda]

While what others have stated with reading things helps a lot, sometimes members who read all sorts of guides might just be overloading themselves and end up trying to interpret jargon with misinterpretations behind the symbolism and other methods that are conventional (in terms of meditating and concentration). Some people have better implicit knowledge to connect the concepts from guides better without having to wait longer for the mind to absorb those concepts for better comprehension.

 

You can read all the guides you want, but if you can't combine that with having competence to experiment, take risks, and produce those breakthroughs you would want in a tulpa (vocalization, visual imposition, etc.), then what you've read will be little use to you unless you can exercise yourself to produce results and being patient about the process in general. A lot of the initial stages into this is just simple reading and just trying to get an idea while testing out some things, but then not being too bothered by which is more important and which can be done later, which can make one flustered and might contemplate on giving up, and getting used to tolerating that irritant with wanting instant-gratification is a challenge, but it can be done.

 

Learn how to read, but also learning how to experiment and understand basic logic with consciousness (conscious and unconscious mind) so that you don't confuse yourself and end up not knowing what to do is important. And being able to increase your mental capacity so you can have better mental endurance, empathy, and other forms of intelligence stacked on in advance makes the process easier. It's just a matter of doing things consistently and learning from mistakes, and making progressive strives for improvement from that self-reflection to help you reach the breakthrough that you need to have success with you and your tulpa.