Topic was anxiety and pain.
I went and joined 4 others as well as a licensed teacher, where we had 2 episodes of meditation. A bit of discussion of pain and anxiety, and treatments of same.
It was a good hour for just $5.
I will try it again.
Did I get an answer to a question I posed?
Not really. The anxious awakening in the night and not being able to go back to sleep.
One woman said 4 cups of sleepy time tea. (and didn't mention how my bladder would respond to that).
I do like the idea of doing some mindful breath focus, just to get my mind away from worrying about the state of something that I did, or am about to do. I'll see how that works before the next class.
2 comments:
I have several things I try when I wake in the night and can't stop the mental blather about people and crap that happened decades ago. Counting my breaths from one to ten and then back to one over and over. Somewhere along the way I lose count and have to start over until I sleep. Or I'll pretend I'm leading a yoga class and list the asanas in order, again always having to start over when the mind wanders. If none of that works 3 or 5 games of solitaire on my phone usually stop the chatter so I can sleep.
All good ideas. I have very seldom woken enough to turn on lights. I used the solitaire de-stressor frequently during the daylight hours. One thing I used to do was name flowers alphabetically, or animals. Just brain work that would take my attention. But I hated when I made it to X Y Z!
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