Middle of the night panic attacks

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Yep, when I start just blogging what I’m thinking about you get a random assortment of multiple posts in a day.  You can thank Joely for setting a precedent on that one.

What am I doing at the moment?

Panic: What have I forgotten?  What am I supposed to be doing?

Me: Nothing.  We’re practicing doing nothing, just being.

Panic: But what’s the intended outcome?  How do we know when we’ve done it?

Me: We don’t.  We’re just hoping to get still enough to see if anything interesting happens.

Panic: But if nothing interesting happens is that because we haven’t got still enough, or because nothing interesting is *going* to happen?

Me: I don’t know.  We can’t know.

Panic: So when are we finished?

Me: I don’t know.  We can’t know.

Panic: Stop that! I don’t like that!

Me: Scary isn’t it?

Panic: Yes! Yes! Please can we pick something to focus on?

Me: Nope.  Just going to be for a bit.  Wanna do another 30 days meditation thing again? Or promise to make one dance vid a day? Or set up a blogging schedule?

Panic: Oh, yes please. That would make me feel better.

Me: Well we’re not going to.  Tough.  They don’t work.  Scratching that itch just makes it worse.

Panic: But..buh-

Me: …

Man this stuff is hard and sucky.  If anyone out there thinks not having a job is easy – you try it.

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3 comments

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I like how you used yourself as the voice of reason and your “panic” was the thing talking to you. The framing implies you’re keeping some element of control over these things, and that’s encouraging to see.

I’m hoping to start Shiva Nata soon (gotta get the bucks for the video) and have appreciated reading about your journey on your other blog, and then see the results here.

Terry Heath’s last blog post..Win-Win Thinking For Multi-Talented Fairies and Mortals

March 27th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
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interesting how the panic comes from the lack of knowing what’s going to happen next! (or building up the image of knowing!) i knew a fellow in college who would play chess or do math problems when life was starting to become too unpredictable.

keep on doing the non-job work, james…it may be sucky, and someone’s got to do it!

chas’s last blog post..friday afternoon update! 23: the auspicious numbers edition

March 27th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
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@Terry – Hurrah for commentors that make wonderful observations that make you feel like you *are* making some progress after all!

@chas – ha ha ha ha, I could totally be that guy. But I think my version is making lists, and coming up with crazy pop-psychology frameworks of the world. I’m thinking chess and maths would actually be a better way to go. I could do with teaching myself some of the bits I missed at Uni…

March 28th, 2009 at 12:40 am

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