Is Forcing Once A Day Acceptable?

[[Insert_Name_Here]]

So I really don't find too much time to enter my wonderland and explore, usually about once a day right before sleep. So I was wondering, if I decide to start forcing soon (like in a few days for example), is forcing once a day a good idea or will my future tulpa need multiple forcing sessions to become a well developed tulpa. Or should I just wait until the school semester is over for the summer and begin forcing multiple times a day? I feel like this is the kind of question that has the kind of answer that depends on the individual tulpamancer, but thanks for any answers!

[Luminesce]

Yes it depends, but due to preference mainly. I force.. pretty much never.. But I have fully developed tulpas and have for a long time, so I don't know if that counts. All I can say is, the more often you do it the faster you'll make progress. But there's no need to go fast, especially if it's an inconvenience to you. For a newly developing tulpa, once a day is fine. Going more than two full days without any real attention going to them can hurt their clarity a bit, but it shouldn't take more than ten minutes to catch back up. But once you get into the weeks and months zone, their personality will probably be fine but your visualization and audibility skills will start to fade, so you'll find it a bit harder to see/hear them when you start again.

 

So yeah, it's up to you. My tulpas aren't developing (well, now my new one is, but) so if I go a couple weeks without practicing my visualization, I'll be a tiny bit rusty when I try to do it again. But it's never such a large inconvenience that I've ever changed the habit. However "being rusty" may hurt your motivation if your tulpa is still developing, so for various reasons it's best to stay as active over time as you can. Things flow better that way.

 

You should be able to feel out what amount of time and how often works for you. I couldn't imagine forcing my tulpas every day for more than a few minutes, forever. Closest I got to that was practicing imposition every chance I got for two weeks, and even that was a lot to handle. And I stopped after two weeks. What works for me is doing large sessions (1.5 hours, for me, large could mean 7+ for others..) a few times whenever I'm gonna need the skills again. Otherwise, just passive-forcing talking to my tulpas whenever appropriate is enough to keep contact well.

 

 

I should mention I'm extremely lazy.

[Stevie]

Force in a way that works for you. Some people can sit down for an hour straight, other people have to break up their sessions in shorter blocks. Some people don't even think active forcing is necessary, but I'm not one of them.

 

I'd say that above all, though, you should be looking to experience something or reach a goal with your sessions rather than just looking at them as blocks of time that you have to expend daily. Because once you start looking at forcing as a chore, and not the opportunity to do something cool with your tulpa, then it becomes a chore.

[bunny-boi-lover]

I'd say that above all, though, you should be looking to experience something or reach a goal with your sessions rather than just looking at them as blocks of time that you have to expend daily. Because once you start looking at forcing as a chore, and not the opportunity to do something cool with your tulpa, then it becomes a chore.

 

I second that. It's not so much about the time as it is the quality. Edwin's still new to me, so I spend a lot of time with him, either in our wonderland or with him imposed with me while I go through the motions of my life. But it may not always be that way. I sincerely hope that "newness" never wears off, but he told me recently that I can't just forcefully hold on to all of the emotions I have for him. At some point I may have to let them ebb and allow other emotions to take their place. So for now, while I feel the way I do, I work a lot with him. Still, I've noticed that I no longer spend hours at a time in wonderland like I did at first. That's a mixture of being a little busier in life and choosing to impose Edwin more.

 

In the past I've sometimes hardly had the time to do anything significant with my tulpae even once a week. This was of course after they were fully developed. But I would still carry on conversations with them in my head and sort of exchanged emotions with them. If nothing else, indirect attention, like thinking about your tulpa or focusing on its name, will keep it strong if you can't directly do anything to focus on it.

[Linkzelda]

I'd say that above all, though, you should be looking to experience something or reach a goal with your sessions rather than just looking at them as blocks of time that you have to expend daily. Because once you start looking at forcing as a chore, and not the opportunity to do something cool with your tulpa, then it becomes a chore.

 

[[Insert_Name_Here]]

I see. It makes sense, the quality of the forcing being more important than the time. Ok, I'm considering starting on creating a tulpa, maybe in a few days. Thanks for the input guys!

 

And Linkzelda: ya, I can't do a ten hour forcing session. Lol

[WizardMassacre]

It's not exceptable, but it is acceptable.

[[Insert_Name_Here]]

Ya, when I got on here to check what your message was I notched the typo right before reading your message. Pretty ironic.