You let it be obnoxious, observe it dispassionately, and allow it to go once it is finished.
Mine is loud and obnoxious as well. When I meditate it attempts to demand my attention, dredging every thought it can, but I don’t feed it, I don’t encourage it, I observe and allow it to pass. It’s definitely a skill and it takes a lot of practice, but it’s a skill worth learning.
Honestly I don’t understand this at all, nor mediation, really. I observe myself all the time, there’s no “separate voice”, it’s just me observing my thoughts and trying to figure out what the thoughts, emotions and wants are and what’s causing them. If I try to separate myself even more from that observing role, that would mean dissociating, which generally is not considered a mentally healthy state. So am I just thinking in a “wrong way”, is dissociating the point, or do I still just not understand?
It’s very confusing to me. Or, at least that’s I think I should feel about it, I don’t know how am I feeling it or how feeling that actually works since many “emotions” tend to be just learned thoughts to me, which aren’t that difficult to observe then
You let it be obnoxious, observe it dispassionately, and allow it to go once it is finished.
Mine is loud and obnoxious as well. When I meditate it attempts to demand my attention, dredging every thought it can, but I don’t feed it, I don’t encourage it, I observe and allow it to pass. It’s definitely a skill and it takes a lot of practice, but it’s a skill worth learning.
Honestly I don’t understand this at all, nor mediation, really. I observe myself all the time, there’s no “separate voice”, it’s just me observing my thoughts and trying to figure out what the thoughts, emotions and wants are and what’s causing them. If I try to separate myself even more from that observing role, that would mean dissociating, which generally is not considered a mentally healthy state. So am I just thinking in a “wrong way”, is dissociating the point, or do I still just not understand?
It’s very confusing to me. Or, at least that’s I think I should feel about it, I don’t know how am I feeling it or how feeling that actually works since many “emotions” tend to be just learned thoughts to me, which aren’t that difficult to observe then