Gabriel comments on A Less Mysterious Mindfulness Exercise - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Gabriel 18 September 2012 11:33PM

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Comment author: pleeppleep 19 September 2012 11:16:55AM *  0 points [-]

Can it work if, instead of visualizing a written parade, you just voice a description of each thought inside your head?

I typically experience thoughts in the form of sounds, so taking the effort to translate these into writing disrupts my thoughts and ruin the point of the exercise.

Comment author: Gabriel 19 September 2012 12:34:15PM 0 points [-]

Can it work if, instead of visualizing a written parade, you just voice a description of each thought inside your head?

Voicing thoughts aloud in my head is exactly what I used to do whenever I got caught up in an obsessive spiral of worrying, so I am skeptical but why not try it anyway?

But you don't need to literally visualise writing. I edited the article to specify that.