I had to work today. The mission was to ensure that technical equipment was functional at a conference my job was sponsoring. The theme involved treating cancer patients from a medical and psychological perspective.
The gist of this is that I had to turn on a CD player when music was required, ensure a microphone was working when people wanted to speak, project some powerpoint presentations on a screen, and anticipate (sometimes in a failing manner) when to hit “page down” to the next slide. 🙂
The nice part of this was that I actually “got something” out of the presentations, aside from the little boxes of chocolates the marketing team gave me. 🙂 For example, people who wake up consistantly at 3 or 4 am may be experiencing a surge of Cortisol, due to stress.
There was also a nice relaxation technique, taught by one of the presenters:
Focus on something in the room. Don’t take your eyes off of it for the duration of the exercise:
Think about 5 things you can see (in your peripheral vision)
Think about 5 things you feel
Think about 5 things you hear.
Think about 4 things you can see….
and keep going down to 1.
By the time you get through 1, you should be more relaxed. If not, go back to 5 and do it again.
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If I’m in a place where I can see 15 things, hear 15 things and feel fifteen things, I am NOT going to be calmer . . . and it’s certainly not going to put me to sleep.
1 sheep . . . 2 sheep . . .3 sheep . . .
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count up to 5 sheep, then start over again..
If you can hear 5 sheep, see 5 sheep and feel 5 sheep you’ve fallen asleep in a field.
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lol… I guess you would know about counting sheep. 🙂
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This sounds good. But i think it will def help me fall asleep. If i am over tired i normally close my eyes and think about fields and fields of green grass.
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Fab – Do your fields have sheep? 🙂 Actually, this relaxation technique was developed by a man who was very abused in his childhood and required some method of relaxing enough to fall asleep. Sad, but true.
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