There was a night last week during which I felt SO wired and a bit anxious SO into the wee hours, and needed to get up somewhat early, that I was practically desperate to calm my breathing, relax and slow down my spinning & whirring brain. So I decided to try imagining myself doing something else, focus only on that mental image, and hopefully finally fall asleep. Kind of like sometimes when you try to picture each body part relaxing at the end of yoga.
I decided to picture in slow detail that I was getting ready to go for a walk. (As I said, desperate.) Ideally, I would have mentally put on my tennis shoes, walked out into the garage, opened the garage door, stepped outside and enter the code to close the garage, then head out down the sidewalk.
Slight problem.
My concentration sucks to a high degree of suckitude, even at times during the day. This little nighttime experiment wasn't going so well. I told myself that any time my mind wandered even to the tiniest degree from the imaginary task, I'd have to start over. I know I was awake at least another 45 minutes.
I never made it to the damned garage.
If you get in a space today where you can try to do something like this, give it a try. Is it just me?
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