Faced with an unpleasant situation, a person can experience it very painfully, exhausting himself with negative thoughts. If the situation is really difficult, experiences can literally drive you crazy or force you to commit some rash act. Being in a depressed state, a person would be glad to free himself from thoughts tormenting him.
Instructions
Step 1
Is it possible to free oneself from thoughts? Yes, but this is a very difficult task. In many spiritual teachings, release from thoughts is considered one of the keys to seeing the true reality, therefore, very much attention is paid to the technique of stopping the internal dialogue.
Step 2
If the task is to get rid of unpleasant thoughts that creep into consciousness again and again, use the principle of "knock out a wedge with a wedge". Suppress unpleasant thoughts with others - for example, read something, watch an interesting movie. Listen to popular music. It’s very good if you can find a “sticky” song, the words of which will spin in your mind.
Step 3
In the event that you are in a really difficult life situation - for example, someone close to you has died, the tricks described above are unlikely to help, at best they will allow you to forget for a while. If you are a believer, try to turn to God with a request to soothe your pain, to get rid of heavy thoughts. Help can come in a matter of seconds. The only condition is the sincerity of your request.
Step 4
It may not be about current problems - perhaps you are just tired of endless internal dialogue and want to stop it. In this case, you should take advantage of special practices that exist in almost every serious doctrine or religion. For example, if you are a Christian, use the so-called Smart, or Jesus, prayer. Read about it from Ignatiy Brianchaninov ("Ascetic Experiments") or from Archbishop Anthony ("The Way of Smart Doing").
Step 5
You should know that the purpose of the Jesus Prayer is not to stop the internal dialogue, but this stop comes as one of the results of practice. When reading a prayer, pay attention not only to the words, but also to the pauses. It is during the pauses that you stand before God in complete silence. Gradually increase the duration of the pauses, the criterion of correctness here is the absence of thoughts, especially of strangers. If thoughts arise, reduce the pause. Remember that the practice of the Jesus Prayer involves a high degree of humility and lack of pride. Before tackling it, be sure to read the instructions of the holy fathers, and preferably more than once.
Step 6
If you are not a religious person, try another way - just watch your thoughts. The task is difficult, you will every now and then forget that you wanted to do it. But if you do not back down, then the moments of remembering will come more and more often, until you begin to observe yourself almost constantly. In this case, thoughts will simply disappear, you will gradually learn to be in complete inner silence. At the same time, the absence of thoughts is not mental degradation - on the contrary, you rise to a new level of knowledge and development.
