#progressive relaxation

[wellbodymind]

The secret to relaxation (aka de-stressing) is probably not what you think

My friend Duff McDuffee is a long-time hypnotherapist and coach in Boulder. I’m on his mailing list, and he recently shared an excerpt from his upcoming book, The Joy of Doing: Redesigning Work to Work for Everyone. I loved the email I got from him this week so much that I asked him if I could share it here, and he graciously said yes. In my bodywork practice, TMJ clients fill out an intake…

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#angry outbursts #bodywork #book #Duff McDuffee #Edmund Jacobson #expanding #fatigue #guarding #headache #health #high blood pressure #indigestion #insomnia #MaryAnn Reynolds #muscle tension #progressive relaxation #relaxation #softening #stress #trance

[the-kites-cradle-blog]

"Help! I've Lost My Practice!"

“Help! I’ve Lost My Practice!”

Life gets in the way, doesn’t it? A mission creep of daily tasks that have to be done eats into your magical practice time. You get distracted by stuff that won’t go away and you neglect your observances. And sometimes the roof of your life caves in and it’s only long after the rebuild that you even care that your magical practice simply disappeared during the crisis. This is a pity. There’s a…

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#contemplation #emotions #energy work #Illuminates of Thanateros #imaginings #iot #let go #meditation #novice program #Object Concentration #observances #offerings #pay attention #practices #progressive relaxation #relaxation #sensations #the Illuminates of Thanateros #thoughts

[pratchettquotes]

Hughnon sighed. "Words are too important to be left to machinery. We've got nothing against engraving, you know that. We've nothing against words being nailed down properly. But words that can be taken apart and used to make other words...well, that's downright dangerous. And I thought you weren't in favor, either?"

"Broadly, yes," said the Patrician. "But many years of ruling this city, Your Reverence, have taught me that you cannot apply brakes to a volcano. Sometimes it is best to let these things run their course. They generally die down again after a while."

"You have not always taken such a relaxed approach, Havelock," said Hughnon.

The Patrician gave him a cool stare that went on for a couple of seconds beyond the comfort barrier.

"Flexibility and understanding have always been my watchwords," he said.

"My god, have they?"

"Indeed."

Terry Pratchett, The Truth

#havelock vetinari #hughnon ridcully #the truth #discworld #terry pratchett #printing press #technology #progress #newspapers #words #power of words #power #change #government #flexibility #understanding #a relaxed approach #brakes on a volcano

[cha-r4]

#rukiaweek

day 5: muse

#this was so relaxing #i love doing pieces like this #idk if it fits the theme tho lol #also #i have the progress video on my twt #rukiaweek #rukiaweek2023 #rukia #rukia kuchiki #char4 art #bleach #i wonder whos pov is that #fufufu #anime #fanart #manga

[crystallizsch]

these valentines day cards for scarabia got me blushing, giggling, and kicking my feet fr (also featuring me unnecessarily analyzing them) (i really hope the cards are in the right order i think they are or else everything that i say here will look incredibly silly)

━━━━━━━━━━━━✦ kalim al-asim:

To my dear friend— Thanks for the present! What colorful and sparkly sweets. They look delicious! I just had an idea! How about we eat them together after school? Gifts like this taste better when shared, after all. I'll pick out a good tea to go with them. Can't wait to see you later! ━━━━━━━━━━━━✦

To my dear friend— Thanks for the gift! It's flattering to know you picked this out for me! I'll treat you to anything you like in return—food, live entertainment, an item you've been pining after... You just say the word. ...On second thought, no. I'll come up with something myself! Just like you came up with this gift to give me. ━━━━━━━━━━━━✦

Hey love, Thank you for that wonderful gift! Getting something like this from you just put a smile on my face! Let me throw you a feast to show my gratitude! After that, I'll take you on a magic carpet ride, it'll be really fun! ━━━━━━━━━━━━✦

SO LET ME TALK ABOUT THE PROGRESSION BETWEEN THE CARDS???

on kalim's first card, it's really cute but it also feels just like his usual demeanor where he treats everyone as a friend.

but on to the second card, it looks like he's definitely feeling more strongly enough about you to think "hey let me get you something too!! let me be your genie of the lamp!" at least right before realizing it would be more meaningful to give you a surprise gift as well like you did.

his "dear friend" on the second card is more real this time.

BUT OMG THE WHIPLASH TO THE THIRD CARD

"HEY LOVE" ???? KALIM WHAT WHEN I TELL YOU MY HEART JUST WENT HFDSNSFHDJFDK PLSS HE CANT DO THIS TO ME 💀💀💀 THE "MY DEAR FRIEND" -> "HEY LOVE" PROGRESSION YOUR HONOR HE IS IN LOVE(???) NO IT’S PROBABLY JUST A REALLY AFFECTIONATE TERM OF ENDEARMENT CONSIDERING THAT IT’S KALIM (*denial* *denial* *denial*)

the closest ones (that are available) to doing something similar is jade who goes from "my good friend" -> "my dearest" and vil who goes from "dearest friend" to "my dear"

anyways, the third card is kalim finally wanting to go ALL OUT as a way to show you how he feels about you and how thankful he is. he's literally all about having fun with the person he cares about. making every moment memorable.

kalim's love language is also very much extravagant gifts since he's raised in a wealthy family where everything has been handed to him. that's probably how he got the mindset that gifts are the way to show love and affection because that's how his family did it for him. so the bigger the gift the better he can show you how he feels.

━━━━━━━━━━━━✦ jamil viper:

Hello— I was surprised to see you gifted me sweets. At first I wondered if you were hinting for me to make you something similar... But when I pulled the gift out of the bag, I saw all the details you put into it, right down to the ribbon. It's clear this was a heartfelt gesture. I'll treasure these treats as I eat them. Thank you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━✦

Hello— I'll admit it. I'm beyond surprised. I suppose a heartfelt "thank you" is in order. In fact, why don't we meet at the school store after class tomorrow? Hopefully I'll be able to find you something to return the favor. ━━━━━━━━━━━━✦

Dear friend, Thank you for the gift. To think I would receive something from you... Well, it caught me off guard. I'd like to give you something in return. Hmm... What should it be? What might you like? Why don't you come down to Scarabia sometime and we'll discuss over a cup of tea. ━━━━━━━━━━━━✦

jamillll;;;

on the first card, he was suspicious of receiving a gift. at first he's like "are you just giving me something so i could give you something as well?" until he realized "oh this is legit" and that you’re not expecting anything back. and then he just enjoys it which is hella cute.

on the second card (unlike the last one) he's now like "let me get you something in return because i really appreciate the gesture". here i think he's still genuinely confused that you still decided to give him a gift. but at this point it feels like he's only offering to get you something in return because he feels like he has to just to show his gratitude. kinda like a fair transaction.

it seems that jamil is still like "why me". like, you cared enough to see and acknowledge him to even consider getting him a gift. which i believe is something he's not used to. so he just wants to "return the favor" by offering you to go find something you like :)

and the third card;;;

"DEAR FRIEND" GOT. MEEE. YOUR HONOR I LOVE HIMMMMM

i know for other people "friend" is not on the same level as the romantic "love" but i personally feel as strong with platonic relationships as with romantic ones (if not more) and this hit me HARD.

for the third one he's finally comfortable enough to consider you a friend. but he still sounds flabbergasted that you still even thought of him (and **you** specifically) (like he didn't imagine that you'd even give him a gift).

and now this is less of a transaction but more of like he *wants* to make sure that he gets you something that you'd really like. it's not simply just "hey let's go to the school store and see what's available as a thanks", this time it's "hey i really appreciate that you got me something so let's discuss what i can get you as well. i'll be your genie of the lamp, anything is possible (within reason)"

(original twitter thread with these cards)

#i might be reading too much into this tbh but #i am so obsessed with the progression of the relationship between character and the reader in between the cards #also another train of thought #i imagine jamil would be the type of who would not be focused on romantic relationships(?) #even if somehow the feels got to him #i mean the guy already seems to be iffy with who to consider a friend let alone a significant other #i wouldnt be surprised if he'd be more focused on being by himself than pursuing a partner #like his wish is to travel somewhere by himself where no one knows him so he could just *relax* (and as he should) #that's why the “dear friend” is making me lose it omg #hes showing affection your honor #[— #twisted wonderland #twst #scarabia #jamil viper #kalim al asim #★ twst rambles #—] #also ;;; please dont think that was an attack on romantic ships ;; #ship to your heart's content #that's the purpose of fanwork i do oc x canon myself 😭

[phatcatphergus]

While I do think that Tubbo was a bit over the top today in regards to making light of the lore, I think it’s mainly because he’s tired of this arc and how there isn’t a roleplayable response unless the eye workers permit there to be. It’s frustrating on a viewer and player level for sure.

Does that mean he had to be over the top? No, but I do think its good to keep in mind that Mike also was messing around during the lore today and in the dapper kidnapping stream, Phil did not give a shit that dapper was downed and kidnapped even after being told he was. I can find Tubbo making jokes at the eye workers funny and someone else can find it annoying, I personally had a problem when he kept speaking over Bagi today, he’s a human who does annoying things that I don’t like sometimes.

I think we all get a bit too defensive of our favs (absolutely guilty) and forget that we find other people doing the same thing annoying too. People can respond to lore however they want, especially when it’s impromptu lore like today.

We don’t have to be up in arms about everything and you don’t have to hate on someone for acting how another person acted in the past. Streamers do things we don’t like sometime because (surprisingly) they’re individuals! Who have their own reasons for doing the things they do. Sometimes it’s playing a certain game and sometimes it’s taking lore with a grain of salt. Maybe you like foolishs parenting style and hate Phil’s, that’s valid! Just remember that people can dislike foolishs parenting style too!

TLDR: it’s okay to critique tubbo for how he chose to interact with the lore today or how he interacts with sunny so long as you are okay with people saying the same thing about your streamer

#it’s so exhausting seeing people shit on tubbo for things other streamer have done before #or did during this lore stream #sure this is intense lore but it’s hard to take seriously sometimes when it’s only able to progress when the admins say it can #everything is so tiring #no more fighting #no more war #no more being angry about how people conduct themselves #I was frustrated too ngl and I’m not going to say that he would be excused #but dang y’all act like every other streamer is perfect sometimes #qsmp tubbo #qsmp crit #I will not be debating anyone as I am pouring a glass of wine and getting my paint ready to relax

[histhoughtslately]

Time to Sit Back: I was told today, “You’ve done the work, sit back and let (it) come to you now”.

I’m going to pass along the same message. The Universe has seen you put in the work and seen the sweat along your brow. Take this moment and rest. Yes, it is true you can do anything but you cannot do everything. Be proud of where you are now, stay present and bask in all that you are. Really take the moment to acknowledge yourself.

I’m proud of what I’ve built so far and I hope that whatever you are building or striving for, you are proud of yourself. If anyone hasn’t told you (including you), I’m proud of you! And if someone has already, well then, I’m proud of you, too!

#beurownhypeamplifier

#histhoughtslately #htl #life quotes #life path #mental health #spilled thoughts #self care #motivational quotes #inspirational quotes #healthy lifestyle #lit #love #writing #literature #spilled ink #metaphysics #metaphysical #spiritual growth #spirituality #black tumblr #writing community #empowerment #work in progress #new beginnings #rest #sleep #relaxation #relax #the magician #tarot

[iratusmus]

having entirely too much fun with old outfit requests

#sonic #archie sonic #silver the hedgehog #scourge the hedgehog #elias acorn #sally acorn #amy rose #iratusmus.png #last art post for today i promise!!! #when i started out with silver i was like ''well okay i want this to be super chill and pump out a bunch of them really fast'' #since when i do these things i tend to do them really relaxed at first and then i progressively put more and more effort into them #until theyre just full-fledged drawings. and then . well. i picked that complicated outfit for scourge #and it all went in a direction from there. as you can tell #either way doing a bunch of outfit requests at once is good for me because then im forced to spice up the poses a bit #also everybody say thank you to my beloved mutual jay un-pearable for introducing me to halftone hospital #unrelated but im actually incredibly happy with the way elias' hair turned out #since i struggled with it for like a millions years #anyways. if you want one of these send in a character and if i feel up to it ill put them in a funky outfit #or a stupid one. i have so many abysmally stupid outfits.

[flowery-laser-blasts]

WIP I no longer feel like finishing, but I also don't just want to throw it away because honestly, this scene in Zeke and Luther is so in character for Drakken and Ron. Perhaps one day I'll finish it but for now, I'll just keep it as a sketch that I want to show to you guys :D

Don't ask why Shego's so tall, I forgot to shrink her down in the sketch and now she's a huge lady, deal with it.

#im free of this sketch now wheeeeeeeeeeeee no more stress over finishing this or not because i will finish it maybe someday but now i relax #kim possible #dr drakken #drakken #shego #drdrakken #kimpossible #ron stoppable #ronstoppable #hana stoppable #henchmen #evil family picnic #zeke and luther #luther waffles #cupstacking #WIP #work in progress

[womenstruation]

we were so close to having a generation of little black girls grow up without ever experiencing relaxers but now I'm not so sure. Everywhere on social media, women but mostly teenage girls complain about their natural hair, begging for tips on how to "relax" and "texturise" it, whatever that means. Even the language used is so telling, damaging your hair is not "relaxing" it.

And it's not just the damage done to your hair, relaxer use can increase risk of uterine cancers and fibroids, but this very real danger is ignored. I know it doesn't help that the natural hair movement that was meant to finally help us feel accepted, has been overtaken. But for a moment around 2015, I really thought we had seen the back of relaxers.

#feminism #radfem #beauty culture #black hair #i hate all those my 4c hair could never jokes #or calling Black women bald headed #but it is so crazy that we cannot wear our hair as it grows out of our head without making a statement #and now i am again seeing babies having their hair relaxed #getting sew-ins #i hate being reminded that progress isn't linear

[doortotomorrow]

memori » sic semper tyrannis

#The 100 #John Murphy #Emori kom Spacekru #Memori #the100edit #Murphy's so relaxed here #trusting Emori completely not to shock him while she removes the shock collar #it shows how much progress they've made towards reuniting

[icewindandboringhorror]

boy in silly sitting positions compilation

#cats #I especially like the last one where he just has one single paw poking out of that box for some reason lol #I still have costumes to post and like a billion other things.... grr... constantly failing at staying active on social media aughh #I think because currently my Main Focus is on trying to get my game done and stuff.. which basically just means sitting and writing all day #so there's not much to post about. Though I know the Good At Social Media thing to do would be to post about the #writing and share progress and talk about the game and characters or whatever to try to build interest or something but that is SOOO weird #to me.. I could maybe get it if it was like a tiny tiny discord groupchat of playtesters with like 5 people in #it.. But something about talking openly about things before they happen is weird to me?? Like presumptuous feeling or something #''oooo guess whats gonna happen LATER!!!'' like.. how do you know.. what if it doesnt. what if you dont finish it. what if its not the way #you think it's going to be. what if something changes. etc. Like I literally avoid movie trailers and game trailers for the same reason ghj #Even if it's not ME doing it it just feels... weird.. Maybe it has to do with my OCD and how I just don't like talking about ''future'' #things in Certain Terms. Like if I was going to say ''Oh yeah sure. come over to my house in a few months''. I would have to follow it up #with like ''HOPEFULLY you can come over to my house in a few months'' or 'They'll come over in a few months MOST LIKELY''. Because just #stating that something will happen matter of factly takes for granted like.. what if somehting horrible happens and I DONT have a house #in a few months? or what if something bad happens to me. or to the person coming over? I can't ever DEFINITELY say with 100% certainty #that one could ACTUALLY come to my house in a few months. anything could change. So I have to allot for that in my phrasing. hbjjkn #There are a lot of situations where you're expected to just Assume Things but for some reason that bothers me. My brain literally does not #even Assume the most basic things.. like how do *I* know that just because it's someones birthday that they want to be wished a happy #birthday? what if they dont? everyone is different and has different preferences. I should check with them first. or wait until they public #ly announce that theyre accepting birthday wishes. I have to allot for all 5034859069 rare possibilities at any given time and never take #anything for certain. etc. ghjbjhbh.... ANYWAY.. I have been feeling a bit sick lately as usual.. but still slowly making progress on some #things. Moslty I need to edit costume photos. make sculptures. and work on the game. Going back reading some of the old writing from like #2018 and suprisingly I don't have to change that much of it? In fact I like it mostly. so that's good. I would be very interested if I were #playing the game myself. Though that doesnt mean much since my tastes are so niche lol.. #Still really want to clear some of my million tumblr drafts as well... alas and aughh and ooughh and so on and so forth. Between all of my #evil appointments other such things...why cant I have one billion dollar to retire into relaxed hermit artist life of no stressors.. bleas

[mokutone]

late entry for 4th day of @tendaysoftenzo ! the prompt was:

Day 4, November 4th: Science Fiction | Wild West (Cowboys)

mostly because i really missed drawing space stations shgkshgksjdhgskdjhg

#tendaysoftenzo #my art #naruto #yamato #tenzō #yamato tenzo #kakashi #research station au #implied violence ? #it ends kind of abruptly and threateningly but like. tenzō is not going to kill kakashi and probably will avoid even hurting him too badly #usually he uses his mokuton to immobilize people + u can see throughout the comic he gets progressively more distressed as he realizes #kakashi's getting closer and closer to realizing that the Rogue Specimen is actually the nice young man sole survivior in the medical coat #so he doesn't like. Want to hurt. Kakashi. #so i imagine probably what happens is he immobilizes and disarms kakashi and starts trying to work on an Exit Strategy #meanwhile kakashi pulls out the good old power of friendship #the seductive promise of trust. of being able to relax because you know at least one person is on your corner. pspspsps. undo the mokuton

[shamanluna-blog]

Shamanluna.com

#shamanluna #progressive rock #aurelien favere #shamanluna radio #music psychedelic #melodic music #peacefull music #poet #Pink Floyd style #ambient music #peaceful #peace #calming #plane #flying #progressive music #relaxing rock #relaxing music #relaxing #chill music #psychedelic music #musical instruments #new age #psychedelic rock #melodic rock #prog music #Aurelien favere #youtube

[grison-in-space]

Since the dental Tribble has been on a strict no kibble, no crunchy, no chewing diet. (In a week or so she'll be allowed to use her teeth again a bit more, but no one wants to see a dog get dry socket.) Spouse feels that canned dog food (perpetually on hand to make into pupsickles) is not experienced as filling enough, and we do know that Tribble has done better on grain inclusive foods for the past decade, so... the rice cooker has been simmering with chicken stock rice too bulk out the canned food all week, and Matilda and Benton have both gotten a fair bit of overflow rice as a treat.

Unconnectedly, tonight happens to be my first night alone as the sole human all evening in quite a few months. Matilda has been doing her job of enforcing bed, of course, but I can also rely on other humans to help make routine happen if she's too tired to be on it.

If I was worried that Tilly hadn't worked out her evening routine enforcement functions before now, I shouldn't have been. I don't think I've ever seen a dog so excited to move the evening along towards the part where dinner and the good cookies are.

#Matilda #australian cattle dog #1 year #the things I'm trying to achieve feel so embarrassing sometimes #like the complex and flexible but not too flexible pressure to do things that are good for me at intervals in the evenings #and yes yes yes it's just that old insecurity again #I grew up literally being told that the audhd was just my special burden to overcome in secrecy: the internalized stuff is not surprising #but it also means I'm watching her cues fairly carefully #and she's now completely reliable to alarmed tasks and mostly reliable to totally uncued pesterbot reminders #it's probably time to work on other grounding behaviors and really practice DPT more but I'm just really admiring my dog's progress so far #she had her first dog reactivity 2: building basic social skills class Tuesday and barely reacted to the five other dogs in class at all #by which I mean that she stared and leaned once #answered her leave it #and relaxed enough into counterconditioning to be rolling all over the floor and grinning delighted at me by the end of class #I'm beginning to see the shape of her grown self coming out #and I think I see why people are willing to go back and keep raising puppies from this breed of incredibly awful adolescences #it's a good shape. strong. very prone to getting distorted over a few generations if a breeder isn't keeping an eye on it #I can see what she's going to be like when she's put on some more emotional development #and I'm really beginning to look forward to it

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

don't let your eyes wander

#my art #art #utmv #horror #horror sans #blood tw #eyes tw #tw scopophobia #istg my computer was NOT cooperating with me at a l l today Dx #so so slow it was AGONIZING trying to edit this and having all progress lost just cause i moved my mouse a little too fast like!!! #man man man and i'm not even sure if i like the result as much as the previous versions aughhg PAIN #anyways i can't believe how little i draw this man when he's like. my third favorite skeleton ever!!! #seriously both canon AND fanon horrors are my favs he's so!!! interesting >:0 #that and i can get pretty experimental with the 'creepy' aspect of his design which is always fun >;)c #i mean blood shouldn't be as relaxing to draw as it is but going wild with textures and blurs and splatters is just too good to resist 😔 #anyways lemme know if i should add any more trigger warnings? just in case? i can't think of any more eye related fears hhh #thanks for all the support guys!! have a great day<3333