The Central Controller

Part Two: A stream of consciousness focused around stopping internal dialogue

ICYMI — Part One: The Most Important Thing I Ever Learned
It’s one thing: Stopping Internal Dialogue. Everything pivots on that.

The Most Important Thing I Ever Learned

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Above all stopping internal dialogue appears to mean that you find what I call your “central controller”, like a meta-mind, a “you” above the body, emotions, and thinking mind. It can observe your whole being: what thoughts are running — images, mental movies, emotions, body.

The central controller can stop the thoughts and images, or change them.

I can see my emotions, and alter them or calm them. The same with my thoughts. In difficult times calming and changing emotions is a monumental task. But the more skilled you are at stopping internal dialogue....and allowing the central controller to do its work... the easier it is. Though I wouldn’t say emotional control is easy in tough situations.

That said I do dive right in, then use whatever works to calm the emotions. Will power does it up to a point. But I might need to switch “belief paradigms”... that might involve plugging in Simon Templar or even the Romantics’ (or Promethean) idea of Satan. Up to a point that is narratives. But I am well aware I am doing it. See it like a workaround to appease emotion.