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Dec. 13th, 2001 11:50 amWhew. It's getting hot out there again. And something's going on in India, too. I think it was ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brianinspace that I first saw post his phone number for anyone to call if they needed to talk to someone right away. I think his offer was in the context of someone considering suicide, but I'd also like to offer the same to a number of different people in the world right now. I'm available, should anyone need an ear.
It's so quiet out here right now. The sky is a heavy, flat grey, and the air is cold and moist. When I open my window, all I can hear is the wind howling through the screen. The radio is playing softly downstairs, and I'm so much happier having it on Radio Two than Radio One. Radio One is mainly talk shows and news stories during the day, but Radio Two is just nice classical music, all day long. I used to enjoy Radio One when I wanted to stay on top of current events, but I eventually started to feel like I was being bombarded by bad news all the time. As soon as I stopped listening to the news every hour, I stopped worrying about it and thinking about it all the time. It's hard not to think about the news all the time if you have an hourly meditation about it all day long.
Uh-oh, look where this is going. A suggestion, then: How about everybody observes a two-minute period of silence every hour for a whole day? I'll turn on the hourly chime on my watch and stop what I'm doing every time it beeps at me. Once every hour for the rest of the day, I'll take about 20 slow, deep breaths with my eyes closed. I'll also make note of my mood before and afterwards to see if it had any effect. I just did a practice one now, but the chime will go off again in about ten minutes.
brianinspace that I first saw post his phone number for anyone to call if they needed to talk to someone right away. I think his offer was in the context of someone considering suicide, but I'd also like to offer the same to a number of different people in the world right now. I'm available, should anyone need an ear.It's so quiet out here right now. The sky is a heavy, flat grey, and the air is cold and moist. When I open my window, all I can hear is the wind howling through the screen. The radio is playing softly downstairs, and I'm so much happier having it on Radio Two than Radio One. Radio One is mainly talk shows and news stories during the day, but Radio Two is just nice classical music, all day long. I used to enjoy Radio One when I wanted to stay on top of current events, but I eventually started to feel like I was being bombarded by bad news all the time. As soon as I stopped listening to the news every hour, I stopped worrying about it and thinking about it all the time. It's hard not to think about the news all the time if you have an hourly meditation about it all day long.
Uh-oh, look where this is going. A suggestion, then: How about everybody observes a two-minute period of silence every hour for a whole day? I'll turn on the hourly chime on my watch and stop what I'm doing every time it beeps at me. Once every hour for the rest of the day, I'll take about 20 slow, deep breaths with my eyes closed. I'll also make note of my mood before and afterwards to see if it had any effect. I just did a practice one now, but the chime will go off again in about ten minutes.
