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That's the first step. Once seen as sensations, thoughts eventually grow quiescent. Triggered sometimes by association, then quickly gone.

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Franklin Delafleur

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I do not catch cessations (I think) but am now able to "shift" easily into a "watcher" point of view, where thoughts feels like sensations twitter.com/Triquetrea/sta

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Much of what we call "thinking" is more like the feedback loop triggered by scratching an itch.

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"This is really itchy. Better scratch it. GAH! Oh bother, now I need to salve it. Uh. Still stings. Maybe I shouldn't scratch that." Etc.

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Thought-as-sensation injects a new signal into the loop, disrupts it. Funny thing is you can often feel the trigger that amplifies the loop.

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Thought triggers bellyaching anxiety (oft perceived as thought) triggers reflexive self-judgement (tightening of facial muscles) triggers...

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But when perceived this way, it's sometimes so fucking funny that you can't help but laugh/snort/shake your head, and it breaks the pattern.

11:27 AM · Oct 26, 2017Twitter Web Client

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Thought felt as sensation doesn't particularly incite to further thought on its own. A cascade eventually reaches a definitive end point.

Franklin Delafleur

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Hmm... I do go like this "Im irritated", then study what that sensation that tells me "that you are irritated" is..

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Sometimes that manifests as a sort of brief, burning sting in the stomach area. Thoughts seem to exist to modulate the behavioural response.

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