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Read through the article - fill-in journal seems like a good idea for a small app. Does anything like that exist?
Fill-in in what sense? Like a physical journal but digital?
I started doing this like 3 years ago. Actually have like 30+ 100page sketchbooks filled so far. Keep meaning to catalogue it all, but I keep adding to it instead.
I think a lot of people put too much pressure on themselves when it comes to the advice "writing your thoughts down". Perfectionism, or the memories of being forced to take notes in school, kicks in and you start to look for how-to:s, format and guides. Very similar to meditation. The best meditation advice I got was to just sit down, focus on doing nothing and be OK with being bored. Not some breathing techniques, h…
There was an app or site I remember using that, every time you typed a sentence, it disappeared so that you only focused on the sentence in front of you. After you're done, you could export the entire document. I wonder if we could add some LLM features to that too.
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> Very similar to meditation. The best meditation advice I got was to just sit down, focus on doing nothing and be OK with being bored. Similarly, no matter how much instruction I've gotten in meditation over the years, I still go back to Tilopa's advice all the time [1]. Just rest. [1] https://unfetteredmind.org/tilopas-advice/
Nice! In case you didn't know of them already, you might find the following books interesting; 1) Mind Training: The Great Collection translated by Thupten Jinpa . 2) Essential Mind Training translated by Thupten Jinpa - This is a subset from the above collection.
I like writing because it forces you to turn vague feelings into concrete ideas. You can barf your thoughts onto paper and then read it with a critical eye, allowing you to evaluate your own thoughts. It helps me to find the gaps in my knowledge, notice sloppy arguments, etc. Sometimes that leads to a better understanding of the topic, but most of the time I realize that I have no understanding of the topic, which is…
>I like writing because it forces you to turn vague feelings into concrete ideas. Yep. I've started painting my dreams and it is surprisingly difficult to turn vague memories into concrete scenes. It's almost physically exhausting.
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OP says that: > The best meditation advice I got was to just sit down, focus on doing nothing and be OK with being bored Without any proper technique or guidance, this is just chilling. What does it mean to "focus on doing nothing here?". I can apply this sentence to binge watching 10 episodes of Friends, getting stoned, just slouching on the couch, staring at walls etc etc. That is what it means to chill. OTOH, to m…
Watching Netflix or getting stoned is clearly not doing nothing. If you take it literally then it becomes clear what is meant: just being, without indulging in anything, not even our thoughts. I agree this requires focus, but i don't think it requires technique but rather practice. As for discipline, i don't even know what that is
Tell me how you would do this without a technique. Your mind wanders and a random thought appears, what do you do? Whatever you are going to say next is by definition a technique. The fact that there a multiple answers to this questions means that the problem is open to a variety of techniques that have a range of effectiveness. This implies teaching and guidance.
I have a pretty strong natural filter. Years of therapy and three different therapists have yet to get me to a place where I can truly open up, even when writing on a page I know no-one else will see. Two days ago I did weed for the first time. I accidentally took a much larger hit than I meant to. For the first 15 minutes I had a complete out-of-body experience; nothing seemed real, I felt like I was floating throug…
So here was this one guy having a mental breakdown, really suffering, and there’s this other guy who keeps aggressively “checking in” on him every other minute, nobody stepped in to stop him because he was “tripsitting”.
(I know normally tripsitters can do this, but the way the guy was doing it was just awful, like he was invading the guy’s space and pestering the shit out of him, it freaked him out even more)
You’re definitely fortunate to have had a good friend nearby, some people are too fucking crazy to ever get high around
Not sure if it's been helpful in any way.
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Fill-in in what sense? Like a physical journal but digital?
I imagine a survey-like questionnaire: 1. Today as i woke up ... 2. In the course of the day i ... 3. One thing that particularly occupied me today was ...
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Nice! In case you didn't know of them already, you might find the following books interesting; 1) Mind Training: The Great Collection translated by Thupten Jinpa . 2) Essential Mind Training translated by Thupten Jinpa - This is a subset from the above collection.
can't tell if this is satire or not