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take a moment to get yourself settled and feeling your feet flat on the floor and your body comfortably seated in your chair
just notice your breathing as it comes naturally and imagine you’re standing at a doorway that goes into a building
and when you open the door you see a staircase going down and as you look inside you notice the air feels warm and has a nice fragrance
it smells very inviting and feels very calming
so you begin to walk into the staircase stepping down each step
noticing the smooth curvature of the wall of the staircase feeling the firm, clear, flat steps gently leading you down deeper and deeper into a calm beautiful space
and as you move down, step by step you notice a deeper feeling of peace coming into your body with each step
continuing to move down the stairs one by one you notice the light becoming dimmer and yet still clear enough you can see you are safe
until it’s a nice smooth ambient light, you’re not sure where it’s coming from.
Continuing to move down the stairs one by one you notice your breathing has become clear and smooth and soft as you feel completely comfortable in this space
after a while you notice a little bit more light coming down from below
and as you continue curving slowly down the steps you see the last step before it opens into a room and step down the last five, four, third, second and the final step
step into this room where the light is lighter and yet diffuse so you cannot see where it’s coming from looking around the room you see it’s completely secure completely safe
and you see a very comfortable chair it looks like a beautiful ornate antique chair that’s been refurbished and made beautiful and waiting just for you
you love the colors; love the pattern and you decide to have a seat in what could only be your chair that’s just perfect for you
you go up to the chair feel the surface feel smooth and comfortable soft and firm just what you’d want in a chair
so you take a minute to look at the chair and just admire its ornate beauty the fine craftsmanship that went into making this chair
once you’ve admired the chair walking all the way around it feeling all of its surfaces
let yourself settle down into the chair feeling how it completely and perfectly supports you your body
perfectly custom fit for you
the arms are at the exact right height
the seat is at the perfect height and softness
the back of the chair perfectly supports your back and your spine and the head rest is amazing
just allows you to sink back fully supported fully comforted by this perfect head rest on this perfect chair
you just enjoy sitting in this perfect chair designed for you
feel yourself perfectly supported and perfectly safe enjoying this beautiful room beautiful light wonderful fragrance with a deep quiet stillness
allow yourself to relax in this chair as long as you like
recognizing you feel more and more refreshed more and more supported and more and more calm simply being in this space in this chair
once you feel completely refreshed completely supported completely calm
you recognize it’s time to begin moving again so you begin to stand up
you feel yourself easily able to stand up from this perfect chair you turn around thank the chair for its safety, support, and comfort
and you notice very small circle on the side of the wall opposite the chair
walking over to it you recognize it’s a button and feeling safe and calm and secure you press the button and the wall opens up and you recognize it’s an elevator
you step inside the elevator and it indicates you’re on the ground floor the very bottom and there’s one button to go back up to the surface
So you press that button and the doors close gently and you’re smoothly quickly brought all the way back up to the surface noticing the light getting brighter and beautiful sunlight
As you step outside to enjoy the rest of your day feeling refreshed feeling supported feeling calm happy that you found your perfect chair that you can go back to anytime.
You begin to enjoy the rest of your day
This simple technique really works and I have anecdotal scientific proof to prove it.
The first thing to do is make a list of what you have to do, but START THE LIST LONG BEFORE the event!
Today I am headed to the airport for a little trip to see friends, learn some stuff, and hang out with Lin. I started writing my packing list about 2 weeks ago.
In prepping for this day, I started writing a TO DO list a few days ago.
Last night and this morning, I have smoothly prepped, packed, meditated, and even had enough extra time to chat with some of my peeps online.
How it works:
Barbara Oakley’s course Learning How to Learn talked about the pomodoro technique, which is based on the fact that our brains need some time to chill out between times of working hard.
Allowing a couple of weeks to make the list allows the brain to work at its prime, creating and finding connections between apparently disparate objects or experiences.
The idea of slowly compiling a list reminds me in ways of GTD, Getting Things Done, which suggests we have One Single List of things to do, and then we just smoothly and easily go through the list while not having to keep a lot of stuff in mind.