Monday, July 9, 2007
Stress Management
Must be my day to post.Having a rough day?Just in case you've had a rough day, here's a stress management technique recommended in all the latest psychological texts.The funny thing is that it really works.1. Picture yourself near a stream.2. Birds are softly chirping in the cool mountain air.3. No one but you knows your secret place.4. You are in total seclusion from the hectic place called "the world,".5. The soothing sound of a gentle waterfall fills the air with a cascade of serenity.6. The water is crystal clear.7. You can easily make out the face of the person you're holding underwater.8. See, you're smiling already.
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Wow--I feel SOOOO much better! LOL
It's not only the post that is funny and stress reducing. I love to read what your listening to. Classical music is so relaxing.
I love to read what your listening to. Classical music is so relaxing.I spent most of the afternoon...between quick trips to my e-mail and to my LJ...writing fanfic, and I have found that I cannot write to anything with lyrics, no matter how banal. I am such a wordnerd that I become totally distracted.Which is not to say that I don't love classical music, because I do, and Mahler is a particular favorite. However, I also listen to the Dixie Chicks, Rufus Wainwright, and Jason Mraz, just not while I write. FanSee
OMG--That's GREAT!!!
I cannot write to anything with lyrics, no matter how banal. I am such a wordnerd that I become totally distracted.You too? My massage therapist once put on a CD with songs--new-agey stuff, of course, but with lyrics--and swore her clients LOVED it. I had to make her change it because all I could focus on were the words. And they weren't even in a language I speak. Sad, huh? Seriously, I wonder if it's something in the way our brains are wired, because most people don't pay attention, I don't think. And you probably know all the words to all the pop songs from your teenage years, too, don't you?
I had to make her change it because all I could focus on were the words. And they weren't even in a language I speak. Sad, huh?Not sad, familiar.You probably know all the words to all the pop songs from your teenage years, too, don't you?Nope. I have to deliberately memorize songs, poems, speeches, etc. What I do do, which amuses only me, is work little quotes - maybe as short as two or three words - into my conversation. I know I'm quoting, say, Rufus Wainwright or Neal Stephenson, but nobody else does. As my mother used to say, "Everybody's strange but thee and me, and sometimes thee's a bit strange, too." FanSee
LOL!!
"Must be my day to post."And I'm sooooooo glad!
thoughts....
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