I’ve found that doing silly things like opening a text document and asking myself questions and then replying to them has been therapeutic for small things on multiple occasions.
I would think that for the purposes of the poll that doesn’t count, because it’s more a “guided thinking” thing—you’re helping yourself to organize your thoughts by framing your problem as an imaginary dialogue. I do it too, with mixed results (I sometimes just end up scolding myself which I don’t think is particularly constructive). But I would think it’s qualitatively different to an actual dialogue with another mind which has at least the potential to introduce solutions or perspectives that you would not have come up with on your own. Maybe you should create a similar poll to see how many people talk to themselves and whether it helps!
Hm, I think that might actually just be good for seeing how prevalent this is, esp. around here.
I suspect that a high frequency of talking to yourself or high quality of internal conversations is strongly associated with good introspection or focusing (in the Gendlin sense).
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What about talking to yourself?
Does that count here too?
I’ve found that doing silly things like opening a text document and asking myself questions and then replying to them has been therapeutic for small things on multiple occasions.
I would think that for the purposes of the poll that doesn’t count, because it’s more a “guided thinking” thing—you’re helping yourself to organize your thoughts by framing your problem as an imaginary dialogue. I do it too, with mixed results (I sometimes just end up scolding myself which I don’t think is particularly constructive). But I would think it’s qualitatively different to an actual dialogue with another mind which has at least the potential to introduce solutions or perspectives that you would not have come up with on your own. Maybe you should create a similar poll to see how many people talk to themselves and whether it helps!
Hm, I think that might actually just be good for seeing how prevalent this is, esp. around here.
I suspect that a high frequency of talking to yourself or high quality of internal conversations is strongly associated with good introspection or focusing (in the Gendlin sense).