03-29-2008, 04:04 PM
Oh yeah, another practice for silencing the ID is to simply give it a volume control.
Listen to your ID, find or create/imagine its volume control,
notice its normal present setting,
turn it up and as you do hear the voice get louder,
now turn it down and hear the voice get softer, quieter,
now switch it off - all the way down.
With a little imagination, you can find lots of uses for such a volume control device. I mean it needn't be volume - apply it to visual and kinesthetic controls too.
I used to dj, and on my mixer ther are lots of sliding controls. One would fade from one turntable to the other - one got quieter in direct proportion to the other getting louder. Well you can have these sliding controls for all sorts of things. If you're on a date, you could de-emphasize her annoying personality while simulataneously emphasizing her good looks, or vice-versa. You can alter your own mood by sliding between a depressed or low-energy memory and a very high memory. Simply find/imagine the control in your mind and set it to the appropriate setting, the one that you find most useful for the task at hand.
These low and high states can also be set more firmly by giving them anchors, but if you're interested, just read more about it. I don't want to give loose descriptions here and have you do it poorly.
Listen to your ID, find or create/imagine its volume control,
notice its normal present setting,
turn it up and as you do hear the voice get louder,
now turn it down and hear the voice get softer, quieter,
now switch it off - all the way down.
With a little imagination, you can find lots of uses for such a volume control device. I mean it needn't be volume - apply it to visual and kinesthetic controls too.
I used to dj, and on my mixer ther are lots of sliding controls. One would fade from one turntable to the other - one got quieter in direct proportion to the other getting louder. Well you can have these sliding controls for all sorts of things. If you're on a date, you could de-emphasize her annoying personality while simulataneously emphasizing her good looks, or vice-versa. You can alter your own mood by sliding between a depressed or low-energy memory and a very high memory. Simply find/imagine the control in your mind and set it to the appropriate setting, the one that you find most useful for the task at hand.
These low and high states can also be set more firmly by giving them anchors, but if you're interested, just read more about it. I don't want to give loose descriptions here and have you do it poorly.