People In Consciousness

[JevinR]

I have some people and events stuck in the mind, how do I get rid of these?

[Friend]

@JevinR They are not the actual people or events themselves. Just thoughts that are associated with them. Accept the thoughts and be aware of them. They will pass on their own. When they come back they are still just thoughts so there is no reason to fight them.

[Tim Green]

Try this:

Sit to meditate, set your meditation timer to rings at 2 minute intervals for a total of 20 minutes. Spend your first 2 minutes resting as the witness, pure awareness. For the next 2 minutes bring the people and events that are stuck in your mind into awareness. Really feel it and experience it all. Look at it from every direction. Pretend that you are video taping it all, without emotion, neutral, just observe. Then when the timer rings let go of the 'people and events' and fall back into resting as the ever present witness. Keep going back and forth between these states, every two minutes. After a while your mind will get board with the object of the obsession and let it go. It may take a few sessions until it is all purged. The goal here is to make the subject, (the attachment to the people and events) into an object (a passing thought in the mind).