I tried this. My main problems were: 1) straying away from the exercise, 2) visualizing the parade (for some reason, my reaction to “visualizing a parade of soldiers” produces tiny 8-bit crude square drawings of soldiers on a black background, not marching but walking towards me in South Park style, which does not exactly correspond to the whole idea of “meditation, acceptance and mindfulness”) and 3) quickly forgetting which soldier carries what, so I rapidly fall in anxiety mode, add that anxiety to the list of soldiers, which, of course, doesn’t solve the problem of forgetting; then I take a short-cut and literally fill the view with hundreds of soldiers, each of whom corresponds to “anxiety, forgetting who carries what”.
On the other hand, the two ideas stated at the beginning of the article can probably be summarized in a single one: detach from yourself and observe whatever happens to you as if you were a visitor from the future who relives a recording of yourself.
I tried this. My main problems were: 1) straying away from the exercise, 2) visualizing the parade (for some reason, my reaction to “visualizing a parade of soldiers” produces tiny 8-bit crude square drawings of soldiers on a black background, not marching but walking towards me in South Park style, which does not exactly correspond to the whole idea of “meditation, acceptance and mindfulness”) and 3) quickly forgetting which soldier carries what, so I rapidly fall in anxiety mode, add that anxiety to the list of soldiers, which, of course, doesn’t solve the problem of forgetting; then I take a short-cut and literally fill the view with hundreds of soldiers, each of whom corresponds to “anxiety, forgetting who carries what”.
On the other hand, the two ideas stated at the beginning of the article can probably be summarized in a single one: detach from yourself and observe whatever happens to you as if you were a visitor from the future who relives a recording of yourself.
Gotta work on this more, I guess.