These patients, he said, often tell him: "Look, I'm an expert in my field; I know how difficult it is to talk about technical problems to laypeople, and how much expert thinking is passive thinking, not fully articulated.
However, in most cases the intention to carry out the index threat was low and remained on the level of passive thinking.
Nolen-Hoeksema's Responses Styles Theory (1991) suggests that people who engage in 'repetitive and passive thinking about one's symptoms of depression' tend to prolong the very symptoms they are trying to reduce.
"Throughout my marriage, I'd taken a passive role, thinking that was what my husband wanted," Ms. Guthrie said.
Twenty-six social psychology students were exposed to the same two treatment conditions: covert question format (which required passive responding—"thinking" about an answer) and overt question format (which required active responding—"clicking" on an answer).
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," he wrote, famously, at the beginning of "Goodbye to Berlin".
Christopher Isherwood made his famous declaration of artistic intent in 1939: "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking… Some day all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed".
Instead, Isherwood was the eternal observer, who wrote in Goodbye to Berlin that, "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," – a quote which inspired the Broadway play and film I Am a Camera.
Born in 1904, Isherwood grew up with the cinema, was fascinated by the relationship between literature and the new medium, and his most famous line occurs his most celebrated book, Goodbye to Berlin: "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking".
Passive forcing means thinking about your tulpa and maybe some talking too, but usually without closed eyes or meditation.
In time, you'll begin to notice all the ways you were being unconsciously critical--making jokes at the other's expense, speaking negatively about your partner to others, thinking passive-aggressive thoughts.
