Why stop the internal dialogue. Stopping the Internal Dialogue: Theory and Practice

Material from the Chaparral Encyclopedia

Stopping the internal dialogue(eng. stopping the internal dialogue; abbr. ATS):

The first action of the teacher is to instill <ученику> the idea that the world we know is only an appearance, a description of the world (view, a description of the world). Every effort of the teacher is aimed at proving this to his student. But accepting this idea is the most difficult thing in the world. We are completely taken over (complacently caught - trapped in complacency) its private view of the world, and this makes us feel and act as if we knew everything about the world. The teacher from the very first action is aimed at stopping this look. Magicians call it stopping the internal dialogue, and they are convinced that this is the single most important technique that the student must master.

Target

Inner silence

I asked to explain how the process of maintaining (the act of walking) assembly points. He said that in the presence of inner silence (attained inner silence by stopping their internal dialogue - once inner silence has been achieved by stopping the inner dialogue) the factor that captures the assemblage point is not so much the look of the force's gait as its sound. The rhythm of soft steps instantly attracts (catches - grabs) force of adjustment of internal emanation, which was released (disconnected) through inner silence.

This force immediately clings to the edges of the strip,” don Juan continued. - On the right edge, we find endless visions of physical activity, violence, murder, sensual manifestations. On the left side - spirituality, religiosity, everything connected with God. Genaro and I took your assemblage point from end to end (walked your assemblage point to both edges - led the assembly point to both edges) to give you an idea of ​​the whole pile of human rubbish in general (human junk pile).

Don Juan assured me that the threshold of silent knowledge was the state of human perception which the sorcerers called inner silence, a state in which there are no thoughts and that silent verbalization that sorcerers call internal dialogue.

Don Juan said that a weight placed in any of the three areas mentioned above will activate all the energy fields that a person has, which leads to an instant cessation of the internal dialogue - and this is the first step towards internal silence.

Dream

TA: The book The Art of Dreaming lays out the whole structure of the dreaming process according to our tradition. It is described there in great detail. I just want to say that there are many different stages or gates of dreaming that you go through. What you have just described has similarities with some of these stages of dreaming.

The first thing you should do is recapitulate (recapitulate). However, it's not the fast process you describe where you just render and dump everything. In recapitulation, you must take every situation, every memory, every experience in your life, because it is a fabric, an interweaving. (is trapped in really a tissue), cellular/molecular structure (cellular level) in which your energy is captured (energy is trapped). The further we go back to the details, the more we free (release) in our, so to speak, "physical" bodies. We are not interested in the astral itself, or the energy body. First of all, we want to clear the memories that condition (trigger our behavior) our behavior in everyday life.

Next, relaxation, the first stage of dreaming. You gotta relax - it's the twilight zone between sleep (asleep) and wakefulness (awake). You must let go of your memory of the physical body. If the physical body and mind are full of emotionally charged memories, if you cannot stop your internal dialogue you won't even be able to relax and move on into the dream state. In this way, everything works together, recapitulation gives you the opportunity to dream, focusing your concentration. (by focusing your concentration) allowing your physical body to let go (release) all those charged emotions and let them be empty and flowing (allowing it to be empty and fluid).

Then, when you let go, you can start dreaming while you sleep. For this you need Perceptual Control (control of what your perception is) which you<развиваете>through the search for hands or any other object (in the room) in a dream. It is extremely difficult if you have not sharpened your concentration and your energy body, awareness of your energy body. (the awareness of your energy body).

Achievement

Accumulation of moments of silence in the process of active life

<Сталкеры>start here, right where any of you are. That's where they start. And they start with their inventory and their place (their list and their place), they sweep away their past, then they make themselves inwardly calm (quiet internally), so that they stop accumulating garbage (debris - fragments, fragments) using certain types of gaze (gazing - gaze)- I'm not talking about any acrobatics or anything like that - these are just some magical passes that are passed down from generation to generation (handed down - have been passed down). Or just sitting quietly - you don't even have to call it meditation - just turning off the internal dialogue. And you prolong these moments of silence. And then you get the power that comes from absolute silence (sheer silence). This alone allows the assemblage point to move from its everyday state to a state of heightened awareness. (heightened awareness). It is the ability to extend silence to whatever you do.

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Then, that "s when the practitioner--you don"t even have to call them sorcerers-- that"s when they enter heightened awareness. It"s when they have that ability to have the silence extend itself into whatever they"re doing.

The practitioner (you don't even have to call him a sorcerer) enters heightened awareness when he gains the ability to extend silence to everything he does.

And you are active. Whatever you do - do your job, drive a car - you do it in a state of silence (do it silently) because you have no thought of encroaching on you (the idea of ​​the self impinging - supposedly "self-impinging" has a philosophical or psychological interpretation in the sense of the idea of ​​a false ego, self-conditioning, self-reflection or self-absorption). And of course you use the petty tyrants of this world because it's good, so keep remembering (you"ve recapitulated)... and I must say that this should not be just one recollection ... in fact it is an ongoing process, because after you are done with all the sexual encounters, you will have to do this with everyone with whom you happened to meet in your life.

Energy and recapitulation

For dreaming, magicians use sexual energy and it is transformed in the energy body. What everyone starts with is basic energy. So we're talking about recapitulation (recapitulation)- the process of recovering energy that was spent and still captured in the past. Everyone should make a list of their sexual contacts because<в них находится>basic energy that they can use to perform magical feats, such as dreaming or gaining inner silence (internal silence). If you don't have energy, you won't be able to realize silence. It sounds like a contradiction, but no, our internal dialogue is something that has been turned on and it goes-go-go and it takes energy to turn it off. It is the driving mechanism that keeps social structures and the movement of the social order going.

Apply Will and Develop Intention

The internal dialogue is stopped by the same thing it started with: by the action of the will. After all, we are forced to start an internal conversation with ourselves under the pressure of those who teach us. When they teach us, they use their will. And we use ours in the learning process. It's just that neither they nor we are aware of this. By learning to talk to ourselves, we learn to control the will. It is our will to talk to ourselves. And in order to stop internal conversations, we should use the same method: apply will to it, develop an appropriate intention.

Hearing the sounds of the world

I began to practice "listening to the sounds of the world." Don Juan told me to practice this for two months. It was excruciatingly difficult to listen and not look, but the struggle with internal conversation. However, by the end of the second month, I learned to stop it, however, for very short periods of time, and also pay attention to sounds.

gait of power

At the beginning of our acquaintance, don Juan suggested to me another technique for this: to walk for a long time with unfocused eyes, using only peripheral vision. He claimed that if you keep your unfocused eyes on a point just above the horizon, you get an almost complete 190-degree view. He insisted that this exercise was the only way to stop the internal dialogue.

Use your ears

How can I stop talking to myself?

Primarily, you have to use your ears to take some of the load off your eyes. From birth, we have used our eyes to judge the world. We talk to others and to ourselves mainly about what we see. The warrior is aware of this and listens to the sounds of the world.

I set aside my notes. Don Juan laughed and said that he had no intention of forcing a result on me. What listening to the sounds of the world must be harmonious and patient (had to be done harmoniously and with great patience).

Contemplation

The Nagual taught us close contemplation. He never explained to us what he actually does. He simply taught us to contemplate. We never knew that gazing is one way to catch our second attention.

<...>When you can stop the world, you have become a contemplative. And since the only way to achieve the stopping of the world is to constantly try, the Nagual made us contemplate the dry leaves for years and years. I think this is the best way to achieve second attention. He combined staring at dry leaves with looking for hands in his sleep. It took me about a year to find my hands and four years to stop the world. The Nagual said that when you catch your second attention with dry leaves, you start dreaming to expand it.

Ideomotor memory

In don Juan's opinion, the benefits of doing long groups were quite obvious: such a practice made novice shamans use ideomotor memory. This effect was discovered by shamans quite by accident and gave excellent results: he suppressed the noises of consciousness, or internal dialogue.

<...>Don Juan's disciples spent many years in a state of constant confusion and complete depression: it seemed to them simply unfair to suddenly, without prior preparation, bombard them with so much information - it was like stabbing them in the back.

I once asked don Juan what was the point of such a "shock" method of teaching, and received the following explanation in reply: "In teaching you the magical passes," he said, "I use the traditional sorcerer's technique of putting a veil over your linear thinking. By forcing you to focus on your ideomotor memory, I pave the way for you to inner silence..

Erasing personal history and dreaming

He said that there are two main activities used to speed up the effect of stopping the internal dialogue: erasing personal history and dreaming.

Tensegrity: three points

Lying on their backs, they would place these objects at certain points on their stomachs, the very points through which the energy of the tendons passed. The first point was just below the navel, the second - exactly in the navel area, and the third - in the area of ​​the solar plexus. However, problems arose here too: stones and similar objects had to be heated or cooled to the temperature of the human body, and, in addition, they usually slipped and shifted because they were too hard.

Practitioners of Tensegrity have found a perfect equivalent to the primitive devices of the shamans of ancient Mexico: they began to use a pair of round balls and a small, flat, rounded leather weight. The balls were the same size as the fruits used by ancient magicians, but unlike them, they were not as fragile, as they were made of a Teflon mixture reinforced with ceramics. This gives the balls weight, strength, and smoothness, making them suitable for the purposes of magical passes. Another device, a leather weight, proved to be ideal for sustained pressure on tendon energy centers. Unlike stones, a leather weight is quite plastic and can take on the contours of the adjacent body area. The leather shell allows you to immediately apply it to the body, without preheating or cooling. But the most important quality of a weight is weight. The weight is light enough not to cause discomfort when exerting pressure on the energy centers located on the stomach, and at the same time has enough weight to be useful in performing some magical passes that help achieve inner silence. Don Juan said that a weight placed in any of the three areas mentioned above activates all the energy fields that a person has, which leads to an instant cessation of the internal dialogue - and this is the first step to internal silence. Modern devices by their nature fall into two categories. In accordance with them, the passes of the sixth series are also divided into two categories.

Darkness

Inner silence was the state that the shamans of ancient Mexico passionately sought to achieve. Don Juan defined it as a natural state of human perception, in which mental activity is turned off and all human abilities are based on a level of consciousness that does not require the use of our usual system of cognition of the surrounding world. It has always been associated by the shamans of don Juan's line with darkness - perhaps because, deprived of its usual companion, internal dialogue, human perception, as it were, falls into a deep dark pit. At the same time, the human body functions as usual, and awareness is extremely sharpened. Decisions come instantly; they seem to be based on a special kind of knowledge that does not need mental pronunciation.

Meditation in the everyday world

HE: You were a Buddhist monk for several years. Have you tracked down the position of the Buddhist man? (You stalked the position of a male Buddhist monk)

TA: There are many, many meditation techniques and monks... not necessarily Buddhists... Zen... (possible interruptions due to poor audio quality)...their goal is peace within (quiet inside). Before<этими техниками>I had already completed the recapitulation of my life and some of the not-doing techniques, so I was able to track down (stalk) these positions, but this does not mean that if you practice Zen meditation, then you will not be able to calm (quiet) your inner dialogue.

There are many meditation techniques that turn off (shut off) internal dialogue, but this is not enough. Silence inside (quiet inside) that's good, but what happens when you get back to work and you're surrounded by people and your angry boss or at home your kids or other people are yelling at you? Do you want to have silence (silence), calmness (equanimity - equanimity, composure) and resolve any situation, therefore<при обучении>we were always sent back to the work environment where we would practice calming the internal dialogue.

Not only sitting in zazen (zazen) or in a cave you can practice meditation, because I know and talked to Buddhist monks, Tibetan monks who used to come to Los Angeles and they say it's very hard to keep calm. This is what they say in China. When the Chinese climbed into the Taoist temples in the mountains and turned the place into a tourist destination, the monks say that now that peace has entered their area, some of the silence has been shattered. (silence) that was built.

Magicians say "Build silence (silence) not on top of a mountain, but within oneself" - this is what calming the internal dialogue means for us.

Connections

Connection with will and intent

I told him that I was fully aware that I had, in general, managed to stop internal conversations with myself. But I had no idea how it happened. If you asked me what actions I achieved this, I would be at a loss to answer.

The explanation is simplicity itself, don Juan said. - It was an expression of your will. Thus, you formed a new intention, a new team. Well, then your team became the team of the Eagle.

This is the most extraordinary of the finds of the new seers. Our teams can become Eagle teams. The internal dialogue is stopped by the same thing it started with: by the action of the will. After all, we are forced to start an internal conversation with ourselves under the pressure of those who teach us. When they teach us, they use their will. And we use ours in the learning process. It's just that neither they nor we are aware of this. By learning to talk to ourselves, we learn to control the will. It is our will to talk to ourselves. And in order to stop internal conversations, we should use the same method: apply will to it, develop an appropriate intention.

We were silent for several minutes. Then I asked who he meant by the teachers who taught us to have an internal dialogue.

I was talking about what happens to a human being in infancy,” don Juan replied. - At this time, everyone around him teaches him to have an ongoing dialogue about him. Gradually, this dialogue goes inside and turns into a factor that fixes the assemblage point in its original position.

According to the seers, each child is surrounded by hundreds of teachers who teach him exactly where to fix the assemblage point.

Connection with dreams

The explanation of the sorcerers regarding the choice of theme for a dream is as follows, don Juan said. - A warrior chooses a topic consciously, interrupting the internal dialogue and keeping the image in his head.

One evening we sat down and discussed as much as we could about everything we knew about dreams. It soon became clear that there were several key themes to which don Juan attached particular importance.

First of all, it is the act of dreaming itself. It seems to begin as a very special state of awareness, which you arrive at by focusing the remnant of consciousness you still have in the dream on particular features or elements of the dream. This remnant of consciousness, which don Juan called the "second attention," was brought into play or harnessed to work by the exercise of "not-doing." We thought that an essential aid to dreaming was a state of mental stillness, which don Juan called "stopping the internal dialogue" or "not doing self-talk." To teach me how to do this, he used to have me increase my peripheral vision. This method was effective on two fronts at once. He allowed me to stop my internal dialogue and he trained my attention. By forcing me to concentrate on the periphery of my visual field, don Juan increased my ability to focus for long periods of time on one single activity.

Later, when I became successful in concentrating, I could spend hours doing some tedious work without distraction, which I had not been able to before.

Association with the assemblage point

it is the internal dialogue that fixes the assemblage point in its original position

- Position the assemblage point on the human cocoon is maintained through internal dialogue. Therefore, this position is, at best, not very strong. Now it is clear why many men and women go crazy so easily, especially those whose internal dialogue constantly revolves around the same things, as a result of which it is dreary and lacks depth.

The new seers say that the most flexible and resilient human beings are those whose inner dialogue is more fluid and varied.

The position of the warrior's assemblage point is immeasurably stronger, because, having begun to move in the cocoon, the assemblage point creates a depression in the luminosity, in which it remains from that moment on.

I have always been interested in the question: where to get the force of the primary push, which would knock the assemblage point out of its original position. When I asked don Juan about this earlier, he used to say that everything is determined by the universal power of alignment, so intention is what makes the assemblage point move.

Now I asked him the same question again. He replied:

You are now in a position to answer your own question. The initial impulse to the assemblage point is communicated through the art of mastering awareness. Ultimately, not much depends on us - human beings. After all, we, in fact, are just an assemblage point fixed in a certain position. Our internal dialogue is our inventory- our enemy and at the same time - our friend. Take an inventory, and then throw the compiled list in the trash. New seers take inventories very seriously and make their lists with extreme care. In order to then laugh at these lists. If there is no inventory, the assemblage point becomes free.

Communication with earth push

once the assemblage point overcomes a certain critical threshold, the result is the same for any person. Techniques that shift it can be infinitely varied. But the result is always the same: the assemblage point collects other worlds with the help of the earth's push.

Is the earth's push the same for everyone?

Quite right. The problem of an ordinary person is an internal dialogue. Ground Push can only be used once a state of absolute inner silence has been reached. This is an indisputable truth, and you will certainly make sure of it when one day you yourself try to take advantage of the earth's jolt.

But I wouldn't advise you to try, Genaro said sincerely. “It takes years to become a perfect warrior. Now you are not ready to withstand the jolt of the earth. You need to change a lot for the better.

The speed of this push will dissolve everything that you are in you,” don Juan said. - Under its influence, we turn into nothing. Speed ​​and personal self-awareness cannot coexist. Yesterday at the summit, Genaro and I supported you. We served as anchors. Otherwise, you would not have returned. You would be like those people who deliberately went into the unknown, taking advantage of the earth's jolt. To this day they roam somewhere out there, in this incomprehensible infinity.

Connection with vision

...people will pass my window of vision very quickly. Don Juan then told me to relax all my muscles, turn off the internal dialogue, and let go of the assemblage point.

Alternative transcripts

Dialogos

How is conditioning encoded or defined or represented in the mind? The stream of thought. We are fixed by the flow of affective thinking that stems from the doublethink that stems from the fixedness of TS. What needs to be done first? Try to slow down this flow of thoughts by not doing. The term “stopping the internal dialogue” immediately arises.

The word "dialogue" needs some explanation, because in a tusovka "internal dialogue" is an internal conversation. The guys think that if they stop talking inside, then the TS will immediately move and they will become masters of magic and experts in the nagual. In order for the internal conversation to stop faster, they periodically take drugs - this is their magic. Let's see if these magnificent intellectuals and practitioners are digging in the right direction?

The word dialogue consists of two parts "dia" - two and "logos" - thought, word, meaning, broad interpretation. Dialogos from Greek is doublethink, doublethink, doubleknowledge, and ultimately: duality. To stop the internal dialogue in the CC codes means to stop doublethink, duality, to stop the schizotypal situation: sluggish anonistic fantasies and unfortunate behavioral twitching. ATS is not just stopping some flow of thinking or internal conversation with yourself, it is the exclusion of the wrong view in your head on the basis of which you are dreaming. And an attempt to take a fresh look at the reality in which you are, to rethink it. What is it with KK? Castaneda calls this re-inventory of the tonal.

ATS is not an interruption of internal conversations, not a tendency to suppress thinking, not euphoric states with the help of drugs. This is the stop of doublethink, that is, the schizotypal situation in the very first simple sense. Thus, the situation of ignorance is eliminated - one of the very first tasks. Ignorance about what? About the fact that you are in a schizotypal situation. You need to start with the simplest.

Elimination of the permanent division into object and subject

Internal dialogue is the essence of the tonal. What is a tonal? The tonal is a film, a spot before the eyes, between the inner emanations that meet with the outer emanations. What we have inside is the inner unconscious, nagual, psychic, will in the philosophical sense, our radiation, our energy. All we can say about her is that she has configurations. What are configurations? For example, we say "this is a cup" - so we do not say that this is a cup, we say that this is "not a spoon" - this statement is the tonal. This is logic.

Our consciousness, our thinking, is a logical structure that arises from the interaction of internal emanations with external ones. The dispatching function of consciousness is internal dialogue. "Internal dialogue", the very word dialogue, it seems to indicate the division in consciousness into an object and a subject.

The exception in the reasoning of the division into subject and object requires specific training. This is yoga. And the stop of internal articulation is the stop of naming - it's not quite the stop of the internal dialogue.

Dialogue is an interaction between internal and external emanations and a dispatching function from above, it says: this is an object, this is a subject, this is me, this is not me. The elimination of the constant division into object and subject is stop internal dialogue.

Good day to everyone who reads this article. Today we will reflect on a very interesting topic.

Perhaps you have some experience of meditation and complete relaxation. And, perhaps, on the contrary, it can be difficult for you to fall asleep, relax, various thoughts come up, not that they are negative, but you definitely don’t have peace from them. It happened.

What is this? How to deal with it, is it necessary to fight, is it possible to stop this mental noise, and perhaps even benefit from it? That's exactly what you'll learn in this article on Stopping Your Internal Dialogue.

Origins

The psyche and inner world of a newborn child is a blank slate. Gradually, the imprints of upbringing, social norms, the opinions of others, schools, friends, and parents are superimposed on him. This is how our mindset comes into being. The picture of the world, born by external factors, thought over by the brain and passed through the inner consciousness creates our life and subjective reality.

The thought process continues to shape our picture of the world throughout life, without changing or stopping. In addition to the picture of the world, a person's thoughts create an image of himself in his own mind. The background thought process proceeds in the form of a mental dialogue and fetters us, keeping us within the framework of the formed ideas.

And now an adult is trying to influence his environment, change his life and other people, but nothing comes of it. "How so?" - he laments and does not understand - “well, what am I doing wrong, why do I need this, why is this so?” And the blame for everything is our attitudes, created and fixed by our internal dialogue.

Mental dialogue from the point of view of psychology

The concept of mental dialogue in psychology has been mentioned quite often and for a long time. This is the internal communication of a person with himself, it does not stop, except perhaps in a dream or during a change in the state of consciousness (but more on that another time). So, often a person himself does not realize that a lot of thoughts are constantly spinning in his brain, very often unrelated to each other. Each of them, like a tail, clings to a “piece” of the one that has just left, following it, and so on in an endless string.

E. Bern, the creator of the theory of transactional analysis, explained the internal dialogue as an endless communication of different states in which our ego resides. These are the state of the child, the state of the parent, and the state of the adult. These three models constantly communicate with each other, often contradicting each other.

This theory is closely related to psychoanalysis, where, as you know, Freud singled out three structures of the human psyche: "IT" (or "libido"), "I" (or "EGO") and "SUPER-I" (or "SUPER-EGO"). ").

At the subconscious (that is, unconscious) level, these structures are in a state of conflict. There is a simple explanation for this. “IT” obeys the principles of pleasure and happiness (which is the main goal in human life), “SUPER-I”, on the contrary, is a kind of censor, it is conscience, the bearer of moral and ethical standards.

"I" is trying to establish a balance between craving for pleasure and moral standards. If, for the sake of "libido", but in opposition to the "SUPER-EGO", "I" performs a certain act or makes a decision, then it experiences remorse and guilt. In addition to these two structures, our "I" is also dominated by the opinion of society with its requirements, social norms and foundations.

In Gestalt psychology, for example, the technique of internal dialogue is often used for therapeutic purposes. When a person has a problem situation with which he turns to a specialist practicing Gestalt therapy, he invites him to initiate a conscious internal dialogue. The purpose of such a dialogue is the mental logical completion of a situation that arose in the past, is not finished and causes problematic consequences in the present. But here we are talking about meaningful dialogue.

It is one thing when we consciously begin to think and ponder future plans, to look for possible solutions to emerging problems. And it’s completely different when endless reflection begins (internal assessment and digging into one’s own feelings and sensations), experiencing again and again events that have remained in the past, blaming or self-flagellation for certain actions of one’s own self.

What type of people are you? Are you using your own brain productively?

Internal dialogue in esotericism

In esoteric science, the concept of internal dialogue became widely used after Carlos Castaneda covered it in his books. According to his teachings, the internal dialogue completely deprives the brain of flexibility and openness. It captures a certain perception of the world, which is repeated over and over again, affirmed by an endless internal dialogue.

Special creatures - flyers (inorganic entities) through an internal dialogue inspire people to perceive the world through greed, pity, boredom, despondency, envy and other negative qualities. And the flyers themselves at this time “pump out” energy from us, leaving only a very small amount, which is enough only to be obsessed with their ego and endlessly reflect.

A person does not realize that the thoughts that arise in the process of internal dialogue are the "intrigues" of the flyers, but they believe that these are their own reflections. Thus, he constantly loses energy and lives an absolutely limited life, perceiving the world in a one-sided plane.

If you stop the internal dialogue, then you can get rid of the attacks of the flyers. This will lead to awareness and openness, the worldview will change, the world will shine with many new lights that you could not even dream of before.

Everything that surrounds us is not an objective reality, it is our perception of the world, born of an endless dialogue with ourselves about ourselves and the world. And this dialogue is always the same. And until he changes, nothing will change in life. Castaneda believes that if the internal dialogue is not stopped, a person will not be able to change anything either in himself or in his picture of the world.

Signs and consequences of internal dialogue

• inability to concentrate;
• constant mental noise in the head;
• incessant reflection;
• state of permanent stress;
• inconsistency of consciousness;
• inability to make decisions;
• causeless anxiety;
• suspiciousness, suggestibility;
• insomnia;
• tightness in the physical and mental plane;
• one-sided flat perception of the world;
• limited thinking;
• drowsiness;
• difficulty in practicing meditation;
• inability to control one's own thoughts;
• living life on "autopilot", not realizing oneself in the current moment;
• aggression, guilt.

And believe me, this is not a complete list. And now you are ready to realize, wake up, become a warrior (for fans of Castaneda), in short, are you ready to stop the internal dialogue? No one promises an easy way, but it's worth it, believe me.

Ways to stop

There are many techniques for achieving inner silence, silence, purification, catharsis, insight. We will tell you about some of them. They are divided into mental and physical. The first group of methods refers to mental.

• Stop by willpower

These methods are suitable for individuals with a developed imagination, the ability to visualize and at least slightly control their own thoughts.

Reconstruction of the thoughtform. It is best to practice this method in seclusion and tranquility, ideally before going to bed. Relax as much as possible, starting from the tips of your toes to the top of your head. Visualize any thought form, it can be a rotating ball, a sphere, a fiery cube, a luminous cone. Concentrate completely on this idea, keep it in your mind, do not allow attention to shift and extraneous thoughts.

Check. This seemingly simple method can be practiced at any time, provided that nothing distracts or interferes with you. Start counting backwards from a thousand. Count as much as you can while thinking only about numbers.

mental order(complete internal silence). Just tell yourself not to think, to shut up. Use your willpower to “catch” thoughts. As soon as a thought appears in your inner field of vision, immediately give yourself an order.

Stalking. This is tracking your own thoughts, feelings, reactions of sensations in order to have complete control over yourself.

mental contemplation. Recreating with the help of imagination in your mind mental images of existing or non-existent places, countries, natural phenomena, viewing and focusing on them.

• Physical practices

Contemplation. Unlike volitional methods, this practice uses the complete "letting go" of thoughts. Choose an object of contemplation, it can be a sea surface, natural beauty, a fire, a waterfall, a starry sky. Just watch and let go of your thoughts, don't try to control or stop them, let them flow freely, just relax and enjoy the contemplation. At one fine moment, you will feel that there are simply no thoughts, your whole being is filled with aesthetic beauty. Practice this method more often, and in addition to stopping the internal dialogue, you will experience pleasure and peace.

Hard physical work. If volitional methods fail to overcome obsessive mental noise, exhausting labor can be used. Your body will be exhausted by fatigue, and your thoughts will only circle in the area of ​​​​opportunity for rest and relaxation. It can be power sports, wrestling, walking, running, swimming.

Meditation and yoga- classical methods of stopping not only the internal dialogue.
However, they require a systematic approach and have a lot of other positive effects.

Tensegrite- these are special exercises that Castaneda describes in his book "The Magical Passes of the Shamans of Ancient Mexico."

sensory deprivation. A win-win. This is a "shutdown" of one or more, and ideally all of the senses. This can be achieved by eliminating the influence of external factors.

There are special sensory deprivation chambers. The conditions of sensory deprivation in the chamber are complete darkness and silence (thus, the effects on the organs of hearing and vision are eliminated). A person is placed in a container filled with salt water, which creates weightlessness due to its density. The temperature of the water is equal to the temperature of the body (thermosensitivity is eliminated).

But you can’t just abuse it, in short time intervals the brain is literally cleared, the internal dialogue stops, the consciousness is reconstructed, complete relaxation and relaxation sets in. With a long stay in the sensory deprivation chamber, the effect can be the opposite: hallucinations, depression, and inappropriate behavior occur.

The sensory deprivation chamber can be partially recreated at home in your own bathroom. Fill it with water at 36-37 degrees, so that being in it is not felt by the body, use earplugs for the ears, turn off the light. Relax and lie down in such a bath for 10-15 minutes.

We wish you, friends, a successful stop of the internal dialogue, gaining control over your own thoughts and easily achieving happiness.

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Good time Friends! Consider the topic of how to stop annoying internal dialogue. And first, let's see why we need it at all.

Why stop thinking

The topic is really very important, if only because so many people fail to do this, at first glance, a simple, but very important action.

And why is it so important? Because our thoughts, if we do not know how to handle them, are often driven into depression, anxiety and insecurity. And by and large, nothing creates so many problems for us in life as our own thoughts. In addition, thoughts can be so tiring, and even useful thoughts, that there is no strength left either for relationships with loved ones or for the realization of one's own.

And if it’s more, then you just can’t get rid of them, they stick like chewing gum. The brain just loops on anything and can't switch.

Why is it difficult to stop the internal dialogue

Let's look at the main reasons why many people fail to do this:

1) A banal habit, thoughts roll reflexively (automatically), one thought can expand or cause an endless stream of others when they seem to jump one after another.

2) Another reason, it seems to you, you are sure that you need to think something, do something mentally and psychologically to drown out anxiety and calm down.

3) Some beliefs and values ​​that keep you coming back and digging into a disturbing topic.

4) Distrust of yourself and your intuition.

How to stop the internal dialogue, deep technique

In the article "" I have already described method, thanks to which he himself was able to learn how to deal with thoughts and emotions (I recommend reading it), in this one we will also consider simple, effective techniques and delve deeper into the necessary, internal state to stop the internal dialogue.

Sit comfortably and close your eyes, take a deep breath and sincerely, from the bottom of your heart, try to exhale all your worries, duties, deeds and worries for just 3-5 minutes, let go of all your knowledge from your head (even the most necessary ones).

Now, within 30-40 seconds. start tracking your thoughts. Just follow them wherever they lead, do not control them, let your thoughts decide where to lead you and how long they will be. Note that you do not analyze, but simply observe what your thoughts are doing, see how they appear and dissolve, linger or replace each other.

You may notice negative thoughts passing by or temporarily stuck, they may be very familiar or new to you, or thoughts may come up like: “I need to go to the store, cook dinner, go get coffee, bring a child from the kindergarten”, etc. , try to calmly observe any thoughts, even the most unpleasant ones.

Believe me, it is equally easy and calm to observe both the most, in your opinion, terrible and positive thoughts, everything depends only on your inner, psychological attitude towards it!

Try, learn with neutral humility leaving all resistance, contemplate any thoughts and emotions. Just don't care that you have them.

And now, after watching the thoughts for half a minute, imagine that you don’t care at all what happens in your life.

Give up now from any attempts to understand something, from all your aspirations, cherished goals and the slightest desires. Now you are giving up everything in your life, renouncing the world with its values, fuss and problems, refusing the way out of the comfort zone offered everywhere, and just calmly, without tension and excessive concentration, look inside yourself or, opening your eyes, look into the distance. .

Emotionally distance yourself from any result of your efforts, from any control of any phenomena and events, that is, you really don’t really care what you succeed and whether you can achieve anything at all. Let peace and healthy indifference become your only priority, only freedom from everything and silence!

You need to understand that you are not giving up something dear to you forever, not in general, you are doing it for these 3-5 minutes.

The main element in doing this practice is sincerity, that is, do not do it all in words, but from the heart. After all, you can also have sex without any desire, or you can do it with sincere passion, the effect of the process will be completely different.

And something may not work out for you or it’s hard to go just because you falsely refuse and let go of everything, or you are sure that you need to try and make an effort. But everything is easier than it seems, relax your will, sincerely agree and submit to everything that is now in your life, and just contemplate what is happening inside or around.

Key rules when doing practice:

• valuelessness(when observing, do not evaluate your thoughts, emotions and feelings as "good - bad");
• sincere humility(all that is happening now is to let it be, accept what is happening);
• not aspiration(we are not trying to fix something or somehow influence what is happening inside us so that it gets better faster);
• confidence(trust what is happening);
• patience(this is necessary in any business, as they say: "Patience, this is the last key that opens the door").

It is also worth adding here such a feeling as kindness(a special state that allows you to treat yourself, your thoughts, feelings, images and the whole world around you with great understanding, ease, gentleness and sympathy).

If you do everything as described, then after some (often fast) time you will notice that the internal dialogue has subsided, the mind and body relaxed, a pleasant peace appeared, and now watch this feeling for a minute or two, feel this serenity from the inside.

This simple technique helps me a lot when I forget and overload myself with some business and worries. Use it at least sometimes and you will begin to forget what chronic fatigue is.

How to stop the internal dialogue

There is another, somewhat more expensive way, which also helps to stop the exhausting internal dialogue.

It happens that some past event constantly reminds of itself, or something very important awaits us ahead, maybe a meeting, negotiations or some kind of situation. You think, you try to kind of mentally prepare, the tension builds up and everything is already tired, but thoughts still hover around this situation.

Take a pen, paper and write down all your thoughts related to this event, just write everything that comes to mind now, only in a finished form, and even the most absurd as it may seem to you.

In order for the thought to acquire a complete plot (denouement), consistently ask yourself the question: "what's next?", and continue to write what you think.

For example:

The thought that arose: "I'm afraid that if I say this, he (a) will not understand me and may be offended" ...

When you pour out your internal dialogue on paper in this way, the brain perceives information more clearly and objectively (less biased), it is no longer scrolling in the head of some half-blurred fragments of thoughts and images.

Such a complete registration of your thoughts through paper helps to free the mind from disturbing uncertainty and stop the formless, mental flow, you simultaneously bring clarity and kind of clear your head.

Internal dialogue before sleep.

It can be very difficult to stop the internal dialogue before going to bed, it does not let you fall asleep, and especially after a stressful day, you can not close your eyes until the morning.

Do the simple practice described above (one of the two), it will help a lot, and if not at all, the nerves and psyche are at the limit, take a contrast shower shortly before bedtime. At the same time, it is important to take a shower, trying to listen more or observe the sensations in the body - warmth, coolness, the murmur of water. This will give the maximum relaxation effect that you can immediately feel, and already going to bed, support this relaxation with the above practice.

And if you are generally not in the best condition, constant and, depression or irritability, read articles on the blog about, etc., apply the knowledge gained.

And do not try to sit before going to bed at the computer for at least an hour. The computer takes a lot of mental and emotional energy.

An exercise to stop the internal dialogue

Take a simple pen, pencil, or better a candle (light it), and within a minute attentively start looking at every little thing in the tongue of flame, every shade and curl of fire, look at any smallest details and changes.

If you smoke, do the same with a cigarette, take a closer look all attention to the ember, how smoldering occurs, how the cigarette looks in detail - the stripes on it, examine in detail the ember itself, how the paper smolders, feel the sensations in the fingers holding the cigarette, look at any sensations when you inhale and exhale the smoke.

Watch like this minute and feel the sensations in your head (they may change).

At this moment, our brain is completely occupied, all doubts, worries and insecurities begin to dissolve on their own, our mind simply does not have resources for them. Thanks to this, it happens, which, in the future, contributes to the general calming of the psyche, improving well-being and a deeper and easier stop of the internal dialogue already in everyday affairs.

With the help of these simple techniques, you can control the restless mind and stop the internal dialogue whenever you want. The main thing here, if you want the maximum effect, is to practice regularly enough.

Gross mistake in working with thoughts

Sometimes it happens that some annoying thought just sticks to the mind, and the gross mistake of many, trying to switch from such a thought, does not work, but you persistently impose this "switch" on yourself by applying emotional willpower.

Just leave the intrusive thought alone. Let it stay in your head, and you go about your business without reacting to it, not paying attention to the fact that it still persists. The calmer, without attaching importance, you will do it, the faster it will dissolve itself.

And finally:

Thank your brain that it is capable of thinking at all, because initially our mind, and at the same time, the internal dialogue is directed to help us act more efficiently in life, and it tries its best, sometimes it tries so hard that I want to hit it in the brain, but he is not to blame for the problems he creates, we just have not learned how to deal with him. And gratitude itself helps to accept the real facts as they are, and you can feel lighter very soon.

Best regards Andrey Russkikh

Hello, friends.

Today we will talk about turning off the internal dialogue, get acquainted with such a concept as stopping the internal dialogue, what it will give us in terms of improving health and finding happiness. Read, it will be interesting, you will learn a lot of new things for yourself.

What is internal dialogue

Many people, when they hear about stopping the internal dialogue (or they also say ATS), imagine stopping thoughts. But in fact, internal dialogue is a broader concept. It includes not only our thoughts, but also feelings, emotions and perceptions. We can say that this is our whole psyche. When we truly stop the VD, we stop not only thoughts, but also the work of the entire psyche. But it can be said differently. Stopping the internal dialogue is broken down into stages. First, we stop thoughts, then feelings and emotions, after the deeper layers of the psyche and the ordinary perception of the world. And the deeper and better the ATS, the deeper layers of the psyche we stop. And stopping thoughts, feelings and emotions is only the first stages.

But we will consider ATS precisely as stopping thoughts, feelings and emotions. For our purposes in terms of improving health and finding happiness, this is quite enough. A deeper stop is already an advanced practice used for other purposes.

Therefore, below I will consider the VD in this way. The techniques that I will give are aimed at such a result. But I repeat, this will be enough for you to change your life for the better.

Why stop the internal dialogue

If our thoughts and emotions are constantly working and never stop, then this will greatly deplete the body and even lead to illness.

The thing is that for such work a lot of energy resources are spent. In order to stop the waste of energy, nature provides for the internal dialogue to periodically stop itself. For these purposes, there is a dream. Also, when we are fatigued, stupidity leans on us, when we don’t want to think about anything or react emotionally. , spleen or a low level of mental response, all this is the protection of the body with a greatly reduced energy of the body.

But the fact is that the human psyche is so much out of control and began to work incorrectly that sleep can no longer fully restore the body and put things in order in the head. The saying "the morning is wiser than the evening" is no longer relevant. In theory, we should rest at night and make decisions in the morning with clean brains. But, I repeat, sleep is no longer able to fully restore our strength.

Out of control, the psyche not only exhausts us, but often drives us into depression, phobias, panic attacks, or all sorts of obsessive thoughts that are difficult to get rid of.

All this is so tiring that there is no strength left for a normal life. Internal dialogue, its obsessive thoughts, interfere with a normal life.

If you think that you are doing well, you do not have depression or other psychological problems, then you are mistaken. There are problems, you just got used to them so much that you consider them the norm of life. We are all constantly dissatisfied with something, often nervous, offended by trifles, we cannot stand the stresses of life. We often quarrel with loved ones and colleagues at work. For the sake of their selfish goals, they are ready to go to meanness. We all have some kind of fears that have settled in our heads and programs inspired by the system that do not allow us to live normally and breathe freely to the fullest.

We are on the verge of reduced vital energy. Yes, the energy of most people is underestimated due to uncontrolled and enhanced internal dialogue, and this is considered the norm.

It's just that people don't know the other state.

If they learned to stop their obsessive, uncontrollable internal dialogue, put their psyche under control, then their life would improve a thousand times. The spent health would return, vital energy would increase, relationships with people would improve. The psycho-emotional sphere would improve, there would be more positive emotions. And the increase in vital energy would be manifested by the fact that we would have more time in life and do everything easily and naturally. And there are many such bonuses, all due to the fact that the energy that was previously spent on the wrong work of the psyche would return to us and change us for the better. I think I convinced you why you need to learn to stop the internal dialogue, because the consequences, the results of such practice are only positive.

But if there is no internal dialogue at all, then this is also bad. It needs to be stopped only for a while so that the body recovers.

But after the stop, there will already be a normal internal dialogue.

How to stop the internal dialogue

Let's look at simple but effective techniques for stopping internal dialogue.

Sit down, close your eyes and relax. It doesn't matter what your posture will be, the main thing is that you feel comfortable. But it is better that you do not lie down, otherwise a strong relaxation may occur.

Set yourself up for the fact that you leave all external worries, problems and deal only with yourself.

Bring your attention inward. Try to look at your thoughts from the outside. Here they appear, dissolve, are replaced by others. Don't fight them, let them live their lives. You are separate, they are separate.

You may notice all sorts of mundane thoughts that you've never looked at from the side before because you've been merged with them. "I forgot to go to the store today. How tired I am of problems at work. Again I got rude, I feel bad. Tomorrow I will have to do it ...". And everything like that.

But now you are watching them, disidentifying with them. In addition to thoughts, feelings and emotions can also appear before your eyes. Also watch them. Don't fight them, just watch quietly. Practice this for a few minutes. The bigger, the better.

Then calmly, in a relaxed manner, bring your attention back to your body. Try to cover the whole body at once with your inner eye. Our attention, our brain cannot simultaneously think about something and at the same time look at something, contemplate intently. Especially to contemplate several objects at once, several parts of the body. If we carefully, without being distracted, look at the whole body at once, the internal dialogue will subside or even stop completely. The main thing is to do it calmly and relaxed.

You will also notice that some thoughts begin to creep into our heads again. This internal dialogue wants to turn on again and capture us, our attention. You just need to catch yourself on the fact that we are thinking again, and not looking at the body, look at the thoughts in a relaxed way from the side, without fighting them, and again turn our attention to the body. In fact, everything is easy. The main thing is to overcome the habit of constantly thinking and learning, just for the time of practice, to look at your thoughts and emotions from the outside.

Try to turn off the internal dialogue in this way to start at least 5-10 minutes. And for best results, then the time can be increased to 20 minutes.

If you do everything right, you will notice how you have come to the silence of the mind, to calmness and peace. It will become easy on the soul, bad thoughts will dissolve, stress will fade away. This state is the key to health and happiness.

Now you know how to stop the internal dialogue in your head, a small session of such an exercise is enough to relax after a hard day's work, regain strength, and forget about everyday problems.

Stopping the Inner Dialogue with the Inner Sound Listening Technique

If you do not know how to stop the internal dialogue, there is a great way. It is the concentration on the so-called internal sound in the head. Such a stop of the internal dialogue is used in such ancient systems as yoga and qigong. If we move away from external sounds, turn our attention inward and listen, we will hear a background sound inside our head.

This may be a barely audible hiss, hum, whistle, or other sound. The main thing is to catch it with attention for the first time, to hear it, the next time you can easily find it. And if you listen to it for a long time, without being distracted by thoughts, the inner sound will become clear, loud, well helping to stop thoughts and emotions.

Here the mechanism is the same. As soon as the internal dialogue tries to turn on again, catch yourself thinking again, calmly transfer your attention to the internal sound and continue to listen to it. Focusing on the inner sound is very good at stopping the mental and emotional flow.

How to get rid of the internal dialogue with yourself through observation

As I said before, if our attention is focused on something, whether we are listening carefully, looking at something, or feeling with our body, then we cannot simultaneously think or emotionally react. In this case, the psyche simply does not have resources, energy supply.

On this law of nature, many techniques have been created to stop the internal dialogue.

You can just break away from everyday affairs during the day, finally escape from the constant fuss of restless thoughts and take a look at what surrounds us. It doesn't matter what to look at and where, whether it's an office space, a home room or a street landscape.

Look carefully at the objects around you, notice every little thing in them, try not to miss anything. I assure you, you will definitely see something new in your everyday environment, you will be surprised that you did not notice it before. Do not be distracted by thoughts, observe and observe again.

Thoughts will try to settle in your head again, just calmly transfer your attention back to the objects around you. Negative thoughts and emotions will subside, and you will achieve calm peace and stillness of the mind. It is better if you take a walk in the fresh air and in this way enjoy the beauty of nature. It will be a great rest after a hard day's work.

Also use the skill of close observation wherever possible.

For example, when you eat, you do not need to rush, quickly swallow food. This will lead to gastrointestinal problems. Eat mindfully. Slowly feel the pleasant taste of food in time. While swallowing, imagine how food has entered the stomach for your benefit, and energy is filled inside the stomach to digest it.

When you take a shower (better), you do not need to procrastinate thoughts about the events of the past day. It is better to observe the sensations in the body, how it reacts to water. How jets of water touch you, how it flows down your body.

All this will help to reduce and even completely stop the internal dialogue, which means achieving a healthy body and spirit in the future.

Try something different, be creative. The main thing is to grasp the state of peace that will come to you as a result of ATS. In the future, I assure you, you will like it, you will easily succeed in any practice of stopping the internal dialogue.

I have given the most famous and not difficult techniques to stop the internal dialogue. In fact, there are a lot of ways and methods to stop the internal dialogue. But remember, it's not about the number of techniques, it's about the quality of stopping and calming the mind. One or two techniques are enough, but applied regularly and in sufficient volumes (at least 10-20 minutes), so that your life changes for the better. Strength and health will gradually return to you. The energy previously wasted by your restless thoughts and negative emotions will be returned to your body, as well as changing you and your life.

The main thing is to achieve a state of silence of the mind and. It is this state that contributes to the correct ATS. And then some try to stop thoughts with all their might, coming to even greater tension. To achieve relaxation, you need to enter a state of non-doing, when we stop any attempts to change something in ourselves, achieve a stop, but simply humbly observe everything that happens inside our psyche.

For a better understanding of the state of not-doing, I suggest you read the article about . After all, meditation in its essence is a stop of the internal dialogue, but applied in a special position, sitting with a straight spine, which is more correct.

Also, the topic of internal dialogue is closely related to such a topic as. When we stop the internal dialogue, gradually we come to awareness in life. Awareness is a state. This is the next stage of evolution, faultlessness and impeccability in any actions, life without fuss and problems. Read up on mindfulness.

I think you understand how to learn to stop the internal dialogue. Stop it and then you will be happy and healthy.

See you soon friends on the blog pages.

And at the end of the article is a very interesting video. From it you will learn what further practices of ATS can lead to. After all, happiness and health is only the beginning.

Purpose:

The audiovisual program (session) "Stopping the Internal Dialogue" is designed to form at the subconscious level the ability to stop the internal dialogue at will at any time. The Stop Internal Dialogue program is non-sexual, meaning it can be used by both men and women.

Description:

What is an internal dialogue? Internal dialogue is a term in psychology that describes the process of continuous internal communication of a person with himself. Internal dialogue is the result of the presence inside the consciousness of several subjects of communication at once. Internal dialogue, from the point of view of psychology, is the interaction of different ego-states of a person (inner child, inner adult and inner parent).

The internal dialogue is a tool with which a person creates and fixes his picture of the world, which makes him immune or weakly receptive to new information. Whatever the internal dialogue is, it primarily affects the degree of awareness and attention. The ever-mumbling brain instantly clings to any thought and imperceptibly takes a person into the jungle of thoughts that have nothing to do with the case and are a waste of time. We often do everyday things purely mechanically, while listening to the tales of our internal dialogue.

Among other things, the body spends about 20% of free energy per day on maintaining an internal dialogue, which could be spent more rationally.

As mentioned above, internal dialogue is a very energy-intensive process. It’s one thing when we comprehend or look for a solution to a problem, it’s another thing when we chew on yesterday, old grievances, anxieties, think out conversations, scold ourselves, prove something to others, and so on.

Constantly chatting inside ourselves, we build a picture of the world and rigidly fix it. We explain to ourselves why the world is the way it is, we add new impressions, sensations, we build schemes. This is undoubtedly useful, but there is also a downside to the coin. In addition to the fact that internal dialogue is a constant drain of energy, it also prevents us from gaining new knowledge and acquiring new opportunities. This is due to the fact that through internal dialogue we form a picture of the world in which we live. And it happens that we cannot rationally explain some things (for example, superpowers), because they do not fit into our picture of the world, formed by internal dialogue. And, therefore, we subconsciously deny these abilities (or knowledge). And if we deny it, then we cannot possess them.

Why stop the internal dialogue?

Stopping the internal dialogue can be useful in a hundred different ways, but we will outline four of the most common.

First, the internal dialogue is stopped to achieve a state of complete relaxation. Stopping the internal dialogue contributes to a complete rest of the body and enlightenment of the head.

Secondly, stopping the internal dialogue contributes to the development of global, holistic thinking. Thinking in images and feelings, not words.

Thirdly, stopping the internal dialogue is used by those who practice out-of-body experience (in other words, exits to the astral plane) and dreamers to initiate lucid dreams.

And finally, stopping the internal dialogue is an integral part of mastering any superpowers (telekinesis, clairvoyance, telepathy, etc.).