Late Sunday rambling...

[richjob]

A quite useful article on sensitive people and their brain. Grabbed from dawnmipb comments, originally from black_hound

I'll take the following from it:

• Spend eight to ten hours in bed each day, sleeping or not, and set aside two hours of additional downtime to meditate, contemplate, or potter, and one hour for exercise outdoors. More like five to six hours of sleep. Sigh.

• Take the equivalent of one month off each year. It is preferable to scatter the time throughout the year. Right. Will try to do this, and actually need to do this before I killify folk in work.

• Meditate daily. Worth a try, but if I do it at work it's seen as daydreaming.

• Practice abdominal breathing. Take a normal but slow breath in through your nose, then breathe slowly out through your mouth as if you were blowing out a candle. This automatically makes your next breath come from the abdomen. The point is not to breathe out through your mouth all the time, but to do this occasionally to re-establish abdominal breathing for a quick calming down. This I can do.

• Create a secure, pleasing place in your house for meditation, prayer, reading, and other kinds of private time. Make it beautiful but simple. Bring in flowers, a candle, incense, or essential oils to give it a soothing scent. Buy a piece of silk or a blanket of natural materials that you can wrap around yourself or sit on. Take your favorite tea or other drink to sip there. Please all of your senses. Heh.

• Keep a journal to encourage reflection and a broader perspective on what you are doing with your time.
• Always keep a protein snack with you perhaps string cheese, a hard-boiled egg, a protein bar, a can of tuna, some nuts. Being overaroused can deplete your blood sugar, and low blood sugar leads to being more easily overaroused. I keep an LJ intermittently. Maybe that counts.

• Keep earplugs with you to use when you are exposed to loud noise. Music!

• Spend time regularly with animals and plants, and near water or forests. Played with the doggies this weekend. It did help.

Useful free software link: PDFCreator. (link goes to the download, and it's open source stuff - no spyware/adware/trojan nasties to be found) Works like a printer driver, makes PDF versions of damn near anything you can print. Not as good as the full commercial Acrobat, but the PDF it makes are pretty good, and work fine for most people.

You guys prod much buttock. Thanks, yo.