Help Me Think Of The Name Of This Object?

[geopiper]

I can't remember or find the right word. What do you call a physical object that a person keeps around or carries with them to help focus their thoughts or recenter their thinking on a goal to be achieved? For example: someone who wants to quit smoking or lose weight would wear a bracelet they can grab anytime they feel tempted to make a poor choice. Other examples may be an AA Coin or rosary beads.

It's not a talisman, totem, worry stone. I'm racking my brain and am failing at the Google Olympics.

thoughts?

 

[Zack Miller]

A wife.

 

[briarbuck]

An object of focus? Focal point?

The Object of Focus for Meditation Should Be: One Thing
The object of focus for meditation should be something that relates to you or speaks to you.
To choose a specific object to focus on helps the mind have something to 'latch' onto. This will help eliminate the myriad of distractions that are constantly happening in your life every moment.

 

[anotherbob]

a focus maybe.

 

[jhowell]

I can't remember or find the right word. What do you call a physical object that a person keeps around or carries with them to help focus their thoughts or recenter their thinking on a goal to be achieved? For example: someone who wants to quit smoking or lose weight would wear a bracelet they can grab anytime they feel tempted to make a poor choice. Other examples may be an AA Coin or rosary beads.

It's not a talisman, totem, worry stone. I'm racking my brain and am failing at the Google Olympics.

thoughts?

Darn you! Now I'm gonna spend all day trying to remember the word... memento, reminder, focus point, good-luck charm, token, charm, amulet, phylactery, tefillin,... I'm ata loss...

 

[pantsBoots]

A fetish (Diné/Navajo sense of the word, not 50 shades of grey)

 

[sablebrush52]

Memento or mnemonic object?

 

[anotherbob]

A fetish (Diné/Navajo sense of the word, not 50 shades of grey)

I think for it to official be a fetish it has to have magical powers or help channel them, not just focus thoughts.

 

[stokesdale]

I know what's up here, you're trying to complete a crossword puzzle through the kind people of this forum, aren't you! Well, I won't be used like that, no sirree!

To be honest, I don't have a clue anyway

 

[pantsBoots]

I think for it to official be a fetish it has to have magical powers or help channel them, not just focus thoughts.

Isn't that the mechanism by which magic works?

I wasn't sure of what we're trying to think of here, but figured I'd give it a shot.

 

[ashdigger]

A pipe

 

[anotherbob]

Isn't that the mechanism by which magic works?

I wasn't sure of what we're trying to think of here, but figured I'd give it a shot.

well that's a whole nother discussion really. I am going off of what the op asked. And thinking if it's just to help them remember not to channel some type of energy that fetish might not be the word they're looking for.

 

[anotherbob]

A pipe

no

 

[stokesdale]

no

 

[anotherbob]

what if ashdigger starts a fire with his pipe while investigating a fire?

 

[pantsBoots]

well that's a whole nother discussion really. I am going off of what the op asked. And thinking if it's just to help them remember not to channel some type of energy that fetish might not be the word they're looking for.

Oh. A string around the finger, then. Or a tattoo.

 

[stokesdale]

what if ashdigger starts a fire with his pipe while investigating a fire?

Theoretically, then, water would put out both.

 

[anotherbob]

Oh. A string around the finger, then. Or a tattoo.

no tattoos are fetish objects even if you don't believe they are. That's why I saw that thing happen to that squirrel that one time. After I got a new tat one time I saw a squirrel fall out of a tree at the top of a steep hill and slide on it's head the whole way down. Pretty gory actually.

 

[ashdigger]

what if ashdigger starts a fire with his pipe while investigating a fire?

That would lead to a conundrum that would require a mnemonic.

 

[stokesdale]

Oh. A string around the finger, then. Or a tattoo.

I think a string is more to trigger a memory of something you want to do than it is to remind you of something not to do.