“1 a.m.: Lie here then. Just lie here. What of it? It’s just lying here. Think of good things… Try to calm the banging heart.”
— Samantha Harvey, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping (Grove Press; May 12, 2020)
Notes:
- Photo: Katia Chausheva (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) with Ariel amoureuse (via Mennyfox55)
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
Yes, if you can’t sleep, you might as well obsess on good things. 😊
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Truth!
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Yes.
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Yes and yes…
I’d rather be sleeping but this is the next best thing.
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Agree with THAT.
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Oh, I know YOU do…
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Listen to the dogs and husband snore…
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Oh, to be either of them.
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I wrote a short comment yesterday in reply to your comment Lori but it seems to have vanished. Anyway, made me laugh out loud – I had completely forgotten that also an even small dog can snore quite loudly!!!! 🙂
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Hi Kiki! Sorry the comment disappeared, but lovely to hear from you regardless. And yes, Lola can snore like a buzzsaw. Incredible how much noise can be generated out of just 12 lbs. 😂🤭
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Like last night…
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Exactly….
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embrace it rather than fight it. a moment of calm in a sea of noise.
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Would love that!
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Bad night?
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Bad 3 nights
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Awww, sorry to hear that, DK!
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😦 Is it partly due to July’s greater humidity? And have you tried the age-old nursing assistant’s friend, Benadryl antihistamine caplets? (I can’t seem to recall the good things strongly enough!)
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Absolutely No Clue!!!!
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Oooh. “The banging heart.”
Know it well — usually at 3am it awakens clamouring for acknowledgement.
Sorry you’ve been hearing the ‘banging heart’ for the past three nights.
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Last night was better, thankfully! Thanks Louise.
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When I have trouble going to sleep, I count backward from 1000, by sevens. I don’t know if it helps me sleep, but at least it’s better than thinking about the problems of the day! 🙂
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backwards by 7’s! OMG, I don’t need more stress!
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hmmmm…. maybe that’s why it doesn’t help me fall asleep… 🙂
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maybe!
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Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
I’m trying, I’m really trying … proving to be kida vexing!! … “Think of good things … Try to calm the banging heart.” – Samantha Harvey, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping (Grove Press; May 12, 2020).
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Being a really bad sleeper, the worries great and small visit me…. no good. It’s too hot, HH snores, problems grow to a giant size and my joining thumb and forefinger is so not calming me down. I really do thank in those nights for all the good things happening to me, I pray for the ‘lost’ causes and cases, but I’d so much rather sleep.
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I’m sorry. Laughing. Joining thumb and forefinger?
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It’s supposed to somehow channel your inner self or what?! 🙂 I’ve been told by 2 friends to do that, one a hypnotist (who left me down in more ways than one could imagine, so why wd I believe her), the other a yoga practitioner….. I do it because I can w/o any difficulty and w/o getting myself in a pretzel 😉
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Sounds like malarkey to me.
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boy, you shot me down with that remark! Because, now I HAD to look it up and it took me a mo to find out HOW to define my question to get an answer….
It IS a term of the yoga business – that woman who did hypnosis also did yoga and thus I had no idea where this stuff come from. Anyway, it’s not malarkey but it’s not important for us either. Satisfied?
If not, here’s a link for more:
https://www.doyou.com/7-common-yoga-mudras-explained-23667/
In the end, this exchange was rather interesting – for me!!! Because I was told I could do that with any other finger plus thumb to get a better ‘inner connection’ (to calm my non-stop-working-brain …..).
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Still LAUGHING…
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A family, with the last name “Malarkey” bought my childhood home. There was further contact with them years after the sale, interesting to save the least.
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What a coincidence. Presume there was no malarkey in purchase / sale agreement
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When you practice sitting in stillness on the land each day. You will sleep like a baby. It’s drug free and healthier than any other remedy I know. 🌈
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I aspire to reach your place. I do.
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It’s just a decision.,😊
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Just that. That’s all. Easy Peasy.
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It is. 🥰
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David – Re: Malarkey, no the sale transaction was fine.
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Very good.
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