The first recommendations of the practice of stopping internal dialogue

Hey, fellow warrior! Try to look at your hands while dreaming. Just raise them to eye level and take a good look at them. Think about this before falling asleep. Get some melatonin to induce lucid dreaming. I would also recommend you drink the tea of the herb Calea zacatechichi, the dream herb, before falling asleep without any sugar!

And here, another major technique, which I practice 4 or 5 times per week, but I run barefoot:

"At the beginning of our association, Don Juan had delineated another procedure: walking for long stretches without focusing the eyes on anything. His recommendation had been to not look at anything directly but, by slightly crossing the eyes, to keep a peripheral view of everything that presented itself to the eyes. He had insisted, although I had not understood at the time, that if one kept one's unfocused eyes at a point just above the horizon, it was possible to notice, at once, everything in almost the total 180-degree range in front of one's eyes. He had assured me that that exercise was the only way of shutting off the internal dialogue." (Tales of Power)

The secret is to think all your thoughts in the first person. Because 
Don Juan instructed us to stop the inner dialogue. Nowhere was it written that we can't have an inner monologue 😏

I just sincerely hope that you get an actual answer that does NOT include;

-being in a darkroom
-meditating with a stick
-walking with your palms wide open towards the earth
-use of any substances whatsoever
-meditating with some stones between your fingers
-“forcing” silence (whatever that means)

I do hope that someone mentions actually applicable, detailed method step by step which can be used in one’s day to day life… say when you have a break from your work in an office.

read all this + all the hyperlinks in the text https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/silence

you'll have a pretty good idea of when to start then

You stop trying to stop the internal dialogue that’s the first step.

You stop trying to change physical things and physical situations and circumstances, and you just recognize it all as perfect .

Then you can being awakening.

Play around with your thoughts, observe them, and duplicate the same thought over and over again, for example. By doing this, get a sense of what thoughts feel like, and then you’ll be able to stop the continuous flow of thoughts. This is about concentration, not meditation. Practice this state of mental silence until your body senses that thoughts are thieves of your attention. Once you’ve developed this awareness, you’ll achieve results in a matter of seconds. As you'll find out, there isn't just the one kind of inner silence, but rather different levels of it. Exploring ever deeper levels is a lifelong task.

Carlos started with the right way of walking. At the time, when he first introduced him to this technique don Juan said it was the only sure way to accomplish that.

You could try the "Chair Silence" technique, in the "Simple Silence" techniques post. I think it might be available in the wiki.

Basically, sit in a chair with your eyes closed and force all words from your mind, until your nose bleeds. Not a single word is allowed!

If you really do that, a bunch of fun magical things will happen. Those are listed in the post on this technique.

It took me 24 years to figure it out and I was trying daily. So, I am someone with a difficult brain I guess, but I never found any of CC methods to be good enough and remain hugely cynical of "silence in 3 months" of practise without going into a retreat. If you go into a retreat (i.e. work at it daily all day every day in focused silence until you get it) then 3 days you can achieve silence and 7 maybe grab brief moments.

but I believe inner silence to really master is like any learning that takes 4 years at college and then a long time in the work place. Meditation in 15 mins every day is a myth. I also shared my journey to it and the method I think is the only way to really get somewhere that I ever found was Vipassana. After that, once you know what actually "stopping" the Mind means, then you can find ways to achieve it while functioning in Modernity. I share my journey to it here.

Focalizzati sul respiro si più consapevole del respiro quando inspiri ed espiri per almeno 5 minuti o più, fallo diverse volte al giorno per almeno una settimana.

The first and most important thing to do is to realize that the internal dialogue isn't yours. This is the most important step. As soon as a person realizes this, they start fighting it. In reality, you shouldn't fight it, precisely because it isn't yours. What you should do is stop it. This means constantly watching your thoughts and, to begin with, filtering them out — not acting on their instructions.

Start simple: don't do what that voice in your head tells you. For example, it says: "you're so tired, you should take a day off today and eat lots of candy." You listen to this nonsense and decide not to do it. Or it says: "wear the white t-shirt," and you deliberately put on the green one instead. That's when you'll understand what you're dealing with, and a real war will begin. Basically, you're developing your own strategic life direction and not letting yourself be controlled — this is a form of not-doing.

Stalking is the art of tracking and taming your own automatic reactions, habits, and internal dialogue, without letting them control you.

Yes, the connection is direct, but more precisely: stalking isn't the method of stopping the dialogue itself — it's more like the ground on which stopping it becomes possible.

The internal dialogue is sustained by your automatisms — habitual reactions, self-importance, self-pity, expectations. As long as you don't stalk these reactions in yourself, the dialogue will keep switching back on, because it has something to hold onto.

So stopping the dialogue doesn't happen from stalking on its own — it's a side effect: the more you tame your automatic reactions through stalking, the less "fuel" the internal dialogue has, and the easier it becomes to stop it using other techniques (walking, mindful actions, etc.).

You can also use any of the methods described here — the main thing is to realize what you're dealing with. I've tried them all.

What also helped me a lot was doing everything mindfully. For example, I'm walking down the street — and during this process I only allow myself to think about the road, about what I see around me, or nothing at all. If other thoughts pop up, like "then we'll watch a movie" or something else — you bring yourself back to the road. Basically, do this with everything — with any everyday activity: cooking, cleaning, brushing your teeth.

Then, throughout this whole process, your will starts to develop — specifically your intention and determination to stop it at some point. The main thing is not to stop trying. Good luck!