Learning how to slow your thoughts down by using a checkbox to capture them.
Not a religion, not therapy — a practice.
The problem: rumination
Your own mind is what's chaining you. It is both the warden and the prisoner. Unconscious scripts are the chains. You can change this. Stop ruminating, unchain your mind.
This ultimately is a container for people who are serious about learning how to stop ruminating. Period, dot.
“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.”
The core ritual
A writing form of meditation, where you sit staring at a piece of paper with the intention of watching your mind.
Eyes open, good posture. Not relaxed, but not too stiff. Upright and focused, staring at the page.
Call to mind a future you that has ceased ruminating. Ask for their help and absorb them into this moment. Set the intention to improve your attention.
Now begin.
Watch your mind. When a complete thought occurs, or bubbles to the surface of your attention, take note. You need not do anything.
Wait until two or more complete thoughts have come on their own. Then draw a check, and a dash for each thought you noticed, one to five. If you're in a good focus state, let multiple thoughts arise before checking the box.
Return your focus to a non-linguistic mode. Staring into the empty box, or feeling your body, the breath. Any concentration object will do.
The object is simply to nip rumination in the bud.
Sustained attention is a deeply healing, cathartic phenomenon. Focusing deeply on something rewards you. Giving your clean, clear, capable attention to the world is the most healing thing you can do.
You learn to cease rumination so that you bring less distraction into the world, and give clearer attention to the people you know. The world receives better attention. And in so doing, their attention can be better.
“In this cohort, altruism is the answer.”
The core container
A WhatsApp checklist. You log how many techniques you actually ran that day and see everyone else's.
A check-in meeting to share how the journey is progressing.
Emotional processing
Fear is your friend. You orient towards it like an old friend, a companion.
The Art of Vomiting Rainbows: relating to fear in a good way, and taking action when it presents itself.
The Checkbox Your Thoughts system
Reduce your reactivity quotient — how much of your life is unconscious process, not choice — as close to zero as it will go.
Plus complete sentence thinking, waiting till the last moment, and the touch experiment.
Accountability groups
You get teamed up with partners, meeting weekly, plus a nightly WhatsApp checklist.
The opportunity to be vulnerable.
We walk the whole map, and you leave with a primer for complete sentence thinking, Checkbox Your Thoughts, and waiting till the last moment.
Price rises to $40.
Book on Calendly“I was once like you. I changed my mind. There is a plateau on the other side. I still slip back into rumination sometimes. But I know where I'm going, and I know how to get there. It's only a matter of time. Here's how I got there, and how I keep returning.”
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