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Idea for meditation technique to weaken unwanted thought

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First - pls don't come up with this like "why don't you use this technique instead" or stuff like this. I have an idea about a technique and I want to read your opinions about this specific technique and not some tips I could do instead or ad hominems. Pls let this thread be about this topic.

 

So here is the idea:

Make a audio record of yourself remembering you about all the things that trigger you or that stressfully pop up in your mind, like mini trauma, things you regret, stuff you said 10 years ago and that you are still ashamed of... All these things that feel like there is a tab open. And then you meditate to this audio and try not to react in any shape or form. 

The idea why I think this really could be a now tool in the toolbox is because all the yogis who invented meditation techniques didn't have the technology available to do so. And I really think this could help because being non reactive to burdensome thoughts is easier said than done when they just pop up randomly. So pro active bringing them up to your mind may be a good idea to train non reactivness. And note that this is distinct from active remembering them. Because we want to soften the part of the nervous system that contain them, not strengthen them.

And this may be the flip side of this method - bringing this bad stuff up to your mind, even it is done passivly by an audio record, may reinforce these thoughts we wanna weaken.  And this is also the reason why I didn't even tried this for myself - because I suspect that this might be actually a bad idea and that I just reinforce mini traumas with that.

What y'all think?

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