You’re spot on about doing that. But what’s even more crucial after counting is consciously breathing inhale, exhale, and stay aware of your breath. Returning to your breath anchors you to the present moment, which trains your mind to stay present over time. Yes, thoughts will pop up, but the more you practice recognizing them (with counting and breathing), the more natural mindfulness becomes a habit rather than an effort.
Yeah, trying to force it is the wrong approach. Resistance isn’t separate from you… it’s your own energy at work. By accepting it, you reconnect with that energy instead of fighting it. You stop rejecting it and instead channel it with intention. From there, focusing on what you want, positive feelings, love, or whatever—builds momentum and creates a new, self-sustaining pattern.
I don’t see resistance as external; it’s all internal, a reflection of what’s happening inside you. The resistance you feel often comes from your own subconscious limits or boundaries, which is why it feels like a barrier. But viewing resistance as ‘bad’ only makes it harder to work with.
Resistance is a natural and essential force; it’s what maintains order in your life. It keeps your changes stable and protects your being. When you create or manifest something new, resistance arises as a counterforce to ensure the change is integrated safely. Embracing resistance as part of the process allows you to align with it, using it as fuel for creation rather than something to fight against.
Oh shit right
I forgot to do that
That’s right habitation should help a lot. Will do
I’ve been noticing the last few days
Unless I’m still and not moving around much no thoughts pop up, but once I’m doing sth I have to do, for example chores and move from place to place thoughts just randomly keep coming up, it’s like an tsunami compared to a stream xD
Hmmm. I see. How does one go about accepting, reconnecting and channeling it with intention, use it as a fuel for creation as you say. Could you elaborate on a practical example
Naahh it was a joke, had to laugh about my joke myself, thanks to the guided path
So back, I will try this technique now. Always felt like my abbused mind/ brain is too broken for getting a silent mind, even after 5 years of periodically meditating.
Nice, hope I will find a clicker in the town😅
Edit: hope this will help me with my problem around people. I always lose focus of a conversation very fast. In the first few minutes my mind begins to wander far away and when I recognize it, I hope that no one recognizes that I’m not there really. It happens really often and if I had a conflict in the past, even if it’s resolved memories of these fights or the reasons pop up. Not strongly, but it catches me most times and I feel bad about.
Fascinating topic, still I have a couple of things I’d like to be clarified.
First - what if I notice some percentage of thoughts post factum? Like - “oh, hold on, I was thinking about my tomorrow’s classes 10 seconds ago!”. Do I still count such occasions? Then I kinda recreate the thought in my memory, isn’t it against the whole point? Or do I count only those thought which I “catch” midway through?
And another question - counting is basically another thinking (i.e. when I internally say “ten”), so if I will train my mind to count thoughts every time I notice them, don’t I also train my mind to create those “numeral thoughts”? And isn’t the purpose of all of it in not creating thoughts by yourself but to just spectate them coming and going on their own?
10 seconds is fine. In fact… I’d say in general just noticing you were thinking, you would still count it. Because… you noticed. You caught on to the fact you were just thinking. Building the habit in your brain to notice yourself thinking. So even if you were a bit late, you’re still training your brain to notice and by counting it, you are rewarding the fact that you noticed yourself thinking.
Not really. I’ve been counting for quite some time and it doesn’t feel like a thought at all. In fact, the more you count, the less thoughts you have (that day at least). In fact, I’m at the point where counting just neutralizes thoughts immediately. Like that’s the part with these types of practices that is hard to show. It really becomes a powerful/automatic tool over time.
I do use my clicker counter quite a bit and it’s gotten to the point that just clicking clears my brain of thoughts.
But the main purpose of such a practice is that naturally, you notice yourself thinking and get back to present awareness immediately… without even counting. I still do the counting cause it’s sort of my ritual to get into flow state at this point and it works very quickly now.
I’ve been labeling thoughts with words like “thinking”. And when there was a feeling, I labelled it with either the word “feeling” in general or more specific one, if the feeling was relatively intense (i.e. “frustration”, “euphory”, “anxiety”, “shame” etc.). The counting stuff is really innovative.
Also would like to say that it really flips the picture upside down, as before I just scolded myself every time I noticed myself drifting into thoughts, and the longer the drift was the bigger was the frustration. Guess that’s my ego showed its presense, via that “virgo perfectionism”. And here its just the opposite.
That’s perfect really. Labeling them like that is also great cause it separates your awareness from the thought through the labeling. Over time, the thought just becomes noise that dissolves and stops recurring overall. Also builds self awareness.
Yes! That’s my favorite part of the exercise. Even when your mind is drifting… that’s a good thing. So as long as you notice it. The more you notice it, the more reps you get like training your mind in a gym.
