TheOtherDave comments on A Less Mysterious Mindfulness Exercise - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 20 September 2012 12:09:42PM 0 points [-]

I've read about a meditation method of classifying thoughts, but a fast search hasn't turned up anything about it. The classification system has to be simple enough to not be a distraction, possibly something like "thought, sensation, memory". Anyone seen or tried that sort of thing?

Comment author: TheOtherDave 20 September 2012 02:26:38PM 0 points [-]

I've experimented with thought-labeling; it didn't seem to do anything for me that observing my thoughts without labeling them didn't do. I forget the exact scheme I used... something like "hope, fear, regret, memory, sensation, emotion, thought", which is probably more complex than I'd recommend.