Thursday, July 10, 2014

Trying to stay awake in order to fall asleep

Paradoxical Intention***. I thought - I have pretty good power of focus. I am worried I could make myself stay awake for hours. And then I thought - self do not think you are smarter than the questionnaire or the field of study. Self - Do not think you are the exception. Self - Try it."

***Is this where your mind went? Did you say to yourself - please don't anyone go out and buy a truck load of their food drug of choice thinking they will stare it down in the name of paradoxical intention. That would not be the right name, it would be self sabotage or self enabling or denial. I say that with a smile and I know there are those of you, reading, whose minds went the same way. But I have SEEN that type of paradoxical intention in blog land before. In book land and TV show land too. Can you take an alcoholic and have them stare down an alcohol warehouse? It is the same thing to me.


What brought this back to mind is this post, Suffer from Insomnia? Try this Counter-Intuitive Trick, when it popped in my email inbox earlier this week.

Yes, I left Gretchen a note about Viktor Frankl.

Monday, July 07, 2014

Giving Keys

I worked my way through a DVR backlog of ABC World News yesterday, a couple weeks worth.

One of the stories was on The Giving Keys.

Really great gift idea for a wide range of people.

Be sure to read the About Us sectionGreat story.