Monday, November 19, 2007
Sleepless Nights
It's been about a week now of wierd, hard sleep. Supposedly I have sleep apnea...OK I do...but there are people who get by with it and without the CPAP machine I'm supposed to be getting used to. I do know that I should be meditating or doing something else to calm myself down before I go to sleep. I wrote an article about a great technique on ehow.com. If you want to read it. Just go to the site and you can read all of my articles including the one on Grounding. Just type in tiferet in the search window and you'll find it. I have found it very helpful. I know I should be doing it, but I'm not.....too lazy I guess...too much on my mind. Trying to find my lifes work! That's really tough...but I know I'll find myself eventually....I have to..I'm already 51.
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I've never ever been able to mediate. no matter how much i try to concentrate on just one thing, or try to clear my mind, I always hear this chattering in my brain that i just can't shut off. "Am i doing it?? Am i thinking about nothing? I am, awesome, i was sure that i couldn't do it but look, i'm succeeding and that's totally great because i've just been so stressed recently and really hoping that learning to mediate will help keep my mind off of stupid things like that project i haven't even started at work ... oh. heh heh, guess i'm not thinking about nothing after all ... oh well."
It's meditate....I know you're a writer...but you can't spell...I'm so bad....anyway......the chattering is normal..even long term meditators hear it...they are just better equipped to let it go...the point is not to stop the chattering, but notice and let go, notice and let go..are you getting sleepy.
Yeah, well an ellipse is one space, then three periods then one space. Like ... this. And you don't have to use them 134 times in one paragraph! Try a long dash, that's — like that. Shift option dash. Also, commas and periods work wonders I hear. :-)
All joking aside, I only take the time to care about spelling if I'm writing a sponsored post, and even then, I use spellcheck, because I know I'm a terrible speller. Otherwise, I just write as fast as I think and let the mistakes go. It's very calming. Makes writing much more like fun and much less like work.
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Define "let it go?" Just be like, "hmm, chatter. That's nice. Ommm."
I guess I'll try it.
And I'm ALWAYS sleepy :-)
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