When I remember that I am mind wandering and try to label the last thought wandered thought, I have a problem! It is hard to find a non-judgmental label, as suggested in the guide, to emotionally charged thoughts, such as as memories of past failures, thoughts one may consider petty, and so on.
How do you label your wandered thoughts?
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@solanaceae Some labels I use during #tmi #meditation:
• "remembering" if I'm just replaying a past event,
• "ruminating" if I'm trying to correct a past conversation that went wrong.
• "planning" is I'm thinking about a future event that is going to happen
• "fantasising" if I'm imagining a future event that is unlikely to happen
• "rehearsing" if I'm practicing a future conversation I think will happen
• "splaining" if I'm having a hypothetical conversation where I'm telling someone about something (which turns out to me a large majority)
I realise there's a fair bit of overlap, but that's probably not important. I don't fret too much about getting things in the right category. Like a lot of things in meditation, I think we do Noting more for the side effects than because the categorisation is important in-itself. (Also, I'm not an expert so I might not be doing it right! :) )
