Re: How do I stop talking?
Humans are hard-wired to language. This is shown in countless studies done by linguists, neurolinguists, neurobiologists, and the like. We hear language even where it doesn't exist (or we think we do, anyway) and we can produce "language" which isn't language at all but sounds like it (glossolalia). Babies are born with a preference for their mother's language, which they could hear through the womb.The idea that language is based on something logical is a misnomer, though most languages do have logical constructs (or not; English is a polyglot like no other and it's wildly inconsistent in countless ways, but we still manage to use it effectively).
The trick is not to forego language. It's to stop believing that words are inherently important, or significant. A big first step is to stop believing your own thoughts, stop putting faith into their importance. Just because something is perceived to be originating inside your own head doesn't mean you have to pay attention to it or own it or otherwise give it any weight. Thoughts, and language, just happen. Resisting these things will just make them that much more problematic. Stop giving them weight, learn to see through them as the insubstantial wisps of random nothingness that they are.
May the light surround you, may you be blessed. May the light surround us, may we be blessed. May love and light surround us all, and may we all be healed and blessed. And so it is, and so it shall be, now and ever after.
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