Gurdjieff and the Stop method

[Persipnei]

Yesterday I read a bit about Gurdjieff and his Stop method. He tended to let his pupils work and when he yelled "Stop", they had to stop everything, from movement to thoughts. Since my mind keeps wondering off out of meditation, I'd like to try something with this, in the hope that I can train my mind to shut off and be present more easily.

I saw someone mention this method in another thread, but since it wasn't really about this method, I decided to make a new one.

Anyone has used this method? Do you walk around with an alarm? Do you use another trigger (my neighbour has a horse, I could use it's snickering as a trigger)? Any ideas are welcome!

[uronlydreaming]

Don't do it without a teacher.  Certainly, you can try but im confident it will yield no useful results.  There's plenty of material for you to study as you are right now.

[Rolo]

yeah, there are techniques like the Sufi twirling technique and a personal favourite from the Osho community called stop dance.