Café containment

“Ain’t it funny how time slips away”.

I aspire to produce at least one blogpost about changing minds every other day. But ‘stuff’ turns up and hauls attention to other things.

Some of the stuff is from the outside and involves interacting with people - including the social networks and the media – especially radio and TV. And a lot of the stuff comes from inside – ie from the unconscious - and it involves egoic rambles in the past and future.

There is therefore need for ways of containing the chit-chat of monkey mind. Here is one.

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Technique  - café containment

Most Wednesday mornings I sit in one of several cafés in Inverurie. On the table is an espresso, a notebook and a pen. Attention is with the witness who writes down any non-trivial facts, feelings or moods that are present in the mindbrain. 

The unconscious muse generates a stream of mini stories and the witness records them. Sometimes there is an obvious way of joining the bits, sometimes there isn’t. So the editing is sometimes very light and at other times quite heavy.

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This blogpost has been built using some of the ideas that appeared last Wednesday. The metacognitive issue is the need for training when changing minds – and it takes time.