[internet cafe] returning to normality

[likesthecoat]

Back to work today. Other injuries are still healing but the head is all right. I think we're all still feeling a bit fragile, and the Captain was hovering like a nursemaid.

As far as team bonding experiences go, I think we should have gone with the laser tag.

Comments

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

Not, you know, actually indestructible. It just felt that way.

I have tried meditation. It helps a bit with stress.

[legofortress.livejournal.com]

Of course. I do know what you mean, just... not so much about myself as others.

What kind?

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

What kind of meditation? Sit in a dark room with no noise, focus on your breathing, think about a snowfall kind of meditation. Guided relaxation, that sort of thing.

[legofortress.livejournal.com]

Ah, I wondered if you meant something more structured. I do spend a lot of time sitting in quiet, dark rooms, but I always find my mind... wanders when I try to think about nothing.

I might give it another try, though...

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

That's why you choose an image to focus on--it's to keep your mind from wandering. If you think about nothing . . . you start making grocery lists. Or I do, anyway.

[legofortress.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the sort of thing that usually happens to me as well...

I'll definitely try it again when we're back in England, though. I imagine I'm going to need some kind of stress management once I start work again.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

Yes, I imagine so.

Sometimes when you're starting out it's good to have some kind of object to focus on.

[legofortress.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not accustomed to thinking of nothing...! It feels... unnatural.

Real or imagined?

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

Real, like a photograph or a statue.

I think very few of us think of "nothing" even when we're not thinking. It's a matter of suppressing conscious thought--calming the self and focusing on one thing. At times I've found it best just to think "breathe in, breathe out," if that's what it takes.

But that's why I like running as a kind of meditation, too: I get in the zone, so to speak, and I'm not aware of what I'm thinking.