Titration Thoughts

[Beany Boo]

Titration thought:

Only when I can I don’t (eat meat, put off sleep, avoid people…).

[Beany Boo]

Titration thought:

I consent to travel to work.

[Beany Boo]

Titration thought:

I can hear you; too much so.

[oak]

Thank you for sharing, Beany Boo. Please keep doing so.

May I ask what “titration” means in this context?

[Beany Boo]

Titration refers to the conscious tapering of your emotional responses. For example, I feel angry. As I feel the anger, if I reduce the dosage of the anger by a few degrees, I suddenly have a subtly different response to the situation in which the anger was prompted. Or, as the anger comes through I subtly alter the way it’s coming through so as to express it in a more satisfying way.

It’s a way of describing taking the automatic out of psychological responses, and controlling the dosage up or down, so that they better fit, for me, specific situations. While I can’t control responses per se I can titrate them so they’re closer to my purpose.

There are some definitions if you search ‘titration psych’ although it also refers to working out the dosage of medication.

[manuel_moe_g]

Beany is so deep a thinker. I am in awe.

[Beany Boo]

Thank you

Let me add I’m not titrating every thought or feeling. There’ll be one in the series though that I’ll sense can be re-dialed and I’ll act on to subtly course redirect.

[Beany Boo]

Sometimes something difficult for everyone asks me to consent.

I wait until I’m ready to.

[Beany Boo]

My imagination is exhausted. Reality is too convoluted for it.

[oak]

My imagination is exhausted. Reality is too convoluted for it.

Word.