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I will try this at some point, but
Any advice for those of us with little-to-no mental imagery?
Once when I was sad I used a thing which I think I saw on LW, of typing out my thoughts as they occured. It sounds kind of similar to this; any relation? (It helped me to feel better, but I haven't had occasion to use it since; and it hadn't occured to me to do it when not-sad, but maybe I will now that it has occured to me.)
I haven't made that exercise.
Although I do have mental imagery, the instructions aren't helpful to me, either. But I did come up with another idea (totally just an idea).
There are games for learning to touch type. Letters (or maybe even words) fall down the screen and you have to type them, before they reach the bottom of the screen. That seems like a good analogy to me. Your thoughts are just abstract game items (you don't have to visualize them falling, or something). You note them as they come up,without engaging with their contents, just as you type the letters or words in the game without really caring if they spell anything.
One important difference would be that, in a real computer game, you would get positive points for typing the correct letter and negative points when they reach the bottom. If you mess up in that exercise (you end up daydreaming or thinking about your thoughts, instead of just noting them) it doesn't matter, just get back to the exercise.