it is creeping down a little with this
Good, good. The other thing I have to work on, and I'm not sure it's relevant, but it does relax, is thinking of your hands being warm and your head cool. It's for improving your circulation, but it always calms me down in my sessions.
I always figured holding my inhale was the key to relaxing, but it just made me lightheaded. Holding the exhale worked much better.
I do a thing where I breathe in for four, hold for four, breathe out for four. Sometimes I do eight on the in and out.
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I do a thing where I breathe in for four, hold for four, breathe out for four.
If you do this with heartbeats, you can get to feel them get slower as part of the exercise. 'Tis cool.
Ooh, that is cool. Except if my heart is racing, wouldn't I start out practically hyperventilating?
OK, you know what stupid thing I like? The "too excited to sleep!" Disney ad kid. I'm glad they brought that back.
Sometimes I do eight on the in and out.
I've done a variation on that for hiccups.
wouldn't I start out practically hyperventilating?
I've never had my heartbeat going that fast. But I do breathe pretty shallowly as a matter of course. So maybe I wouldn't notice.
Yeah, I guess not. It's weird trying to pay attention to normal breathing -- it's like I can't breathe normally on command!
thinking of your hands being warm and your head cool. It's for improving your circulation, but it always calms me down in my sessions.
How? I can think hands warm but I haven't figured out face cool.
I always figured holding my inhale was the key to relaxing, but it just made me lightheaded. Holding the exhale worked much better.
It is certainly making me feel calmer. Though the pulse is going between 85 and 90, of which I prefer the smaller numbers. I'll skip holding the inhale as any more lightheaded and the damn thing will float away and my ceilings aren't clean enough for me to want my head hanging out there.
Perhaps obsessively pushing the button to check is bad. Can't quit cold turkey though. Every five minutes maybe.
You know, I rock at getting other people through this. Why can't I do it more easily for me?
OK, you know what stupid thing I like? The "too excited to sleep!" Disney ad kid.
I adore that kid.