My impression from reading meditation and doing some of it is that shutting down one’s internal monologue is something that happens after a practicing for quite a while. (Months? Years?) It isn’t an initial goal.
It’s not a binary thing, either. One common technique is to be aware of one’s internal monologue without investing emotionally in it or trying to suppress it; (this is described in lots of different language) this tends to reduce its intensity and ubiquity over time.
My impression from reading meditation and doing some of it is that shutting down one’s internal monologue is something that happens after a practicing for quite a while. (Months? Years?) It isn’t an initial goal.
It’s not a binary thing, either. One common technique is to be aware of one’s internal monologue without investing emotionally in it or trying to suppress it; (this is described in lots of different language) this tends to reduce its intensity and ubiquity over time.