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Re: Blog Thread IIIb : Look Who's Blogging Now
LTK:
--- Quote from: Akima on 20 Jan 2013, 14:19 ---When it comes to going to sleep, I strongly recommend meditation-breathing. Obviously, I am prejudiced here, because meditation is central to my daily practice, but other people to whom I've suggested the technique have found it quite effective in stilling the windmills of the mind.
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It works wonders for me, although I've only a superficial knowledge of meditation, and the meditative focus is mostly self-taught. I haven't required it in a while, but recently I've been having trouble getting my brain to shut up for long enough to get to sleep, so I simply start to focus on breathing. It's the worst when I've had a particularly salient social event earlier that day that gets replayed over and over again. Otherwise, it's just a runaway train of thought that keeps me awake.
I think the reason why focusing on breathing works so well it's because it's regular. You can try to silence your thoughts and focus on getting to sleep, but that focus disappears when you relax and then your brain just starts rambling all over again. By clearing your mind with every exhale, you keep interrupting the runaway thoughts, so your mental agitation stops. It's very effective in getting me to fall asleep.
Zingoleb:
You can silence your thoughts? Holy shit, that must be nice. Usually I have at least one or two voices just repeating the same thing over and over again, and it's fucking maddening.
Carl-E:
I think that's actually the definition of maddening...
Zingoleb:
You go a little mad, you get the voices, and the voices drive you a whole lot of mad.
Barmymoo:
I think a big problem is that my radiator will never SHUT THE FUCK UP. Last night I plugged my ears with tissue for a while and just about managed to block out the noise by covering my head with my duvet but I couldn't sleep for worrying that the tissue would get stuck in my ear canal, so I had to take it out. I was kept awake for two hours and then woke up again at 2.30, and finally at 7.20. I've put in a maintenance request to have the fucker bled but what I really want is to have it removed. I would rather be cold and get some sleep.
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