Without a Voice in Your Head?

The first time it happened was the day before lockdown.

I'd been meditating for two years, and that morning, almost without meaning to, I stopped the voice in my head.

No more inner chatter, no more constant judging, no more anxious rumination. Silence.

I was stunned.

It had probably happened before, but it was the first time I noticed it – and that it lasted. I could hold that silence.

I spent the day wandering the streets, exploring this new experience.

So it's possible to deal with the world without a little voice judging everything? To look at an object without hearing "I like it, I don't like it"? To choose where to go next without talking it through? To make a decision without the axe of an inner verdict?

I eventually understood that verbal thought wasn't the source of action. It isn't what "thinks out loud (in your head) to make a decision." Decisions are made elsewhere. It only comments.

And it's perfectly possible (desirable?) to live and act without that commentary.