Rule four: mindfulness & meditation seem as "taking stock of everything silently"
If you're able to monitor your breathing and body, you don't need to be instructing your subconscious in rhythm anymore. You can just trust your breathing, your pace of time, your safety.

When you trust your safety--or at least maximal awareness of it, you can take stock of more--& that means taking stock on taking stock. New feelings you had been missing. New ways you think that feel funny in your growing drought of expression.

These words can't give you what temperate practice will. Good luck! I've had stories/visions first birthed as thoughts.