This article deals with increasingly focusing attention in the sphere of outgoing 'here and now' or 'uptime' by means of de-energising superfluous thought trains at their inception and thus preventing their flowering. The effect is to remove, by stages, irrelevant elements from the thinking processes.
Many people believe that their thinking processes comprise only of internal dialogue.
This illusion persists owing to poor or incomplete observation. Insofar as this article goes, 'practical' thoughts are overtly defined as those thought trains that contain exclusively 'practical' content - content relating to habitual activity and procedure useful to obtaining a measurable objective result rather than theory. In actuality, past and future do not exist other than as ideation. A Special Case of the Past One particularly pernicious form of time based thinking relates to the dwelling upon or spinning out of visual and word images in a stream of 'nostalgia'. This is illustrated in Figure 1 above.