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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 46951" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Nomad, surely you meant "FOOT massage"? Although I'm really curious about the concept of a food massage, it could be relaxing if someone else was doing the laundry...</p><p></p><p>BBK, I also like the communing with nature idea. Gardening is good. I remember once when I lived in a flat and was extremely poor, I stuck a sprouting onion in a glass of water, put it on the kitchen windowsill and occasionally would 'harvest' a short length or sprout to use on a tomato sandwich. That was as far as I could get into gardening back then! Alternatively for a housebound dirt-free gardener - try growing sprouts for salad. You can do it in a jar with muslin over the open end, held on with a <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2012/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> band. First day - soak the seeds. Then rinse and drain, twice a day. To drain, leave the jar either on its side or upside down on the draining board. You probably should wrap something opaque round the jar to keep light out of it, or the sprouts may taste bitter.</p><p>Or you can get one of those terracotta chia pets and grow alfalfa sprouts on it.</p><p></p><p>A really good visualisation plus meditation on a regular basis can be good insurance against anxiety attacks. When you're practised at the visualisation and can snap back into it quickly, it can really help. The best visualisations are ones of a place you've really been, or have a photo of. If you can reinforce that visualisation with smell it's even better. I used to combine the visualisation with taking my pain medications, so just as the pain medications were beginning to take effect, the visualisation and meditation was really involved. it meant I built up a conditioned response and in an emergency I could use the visualisation as a substitute for pain relief, or an assist. A good visualisation should include sight, sound, smell, temperature - everything you can draw in to make it as real as possible. It helps to have a few you can use, depending on the time of year. For example, my most useful visualisation is a rainforest three hours drive north of Sydney. it's shady, it's near the sea so I can hear surf and seagulls in the distance and scrub turkeys scratching at their nest mounds nearby. There is a stream flowing through with a large, mossy strangler fig with roots among the brown river pebbles. Vines everywhere. Shady, cool, fragrant. But in winter, sometimes I need something warmer, something I can't use in the height of summer - the memory of lying in the sun on our beach. The slight sting of sun on my back; the sound of seagulls, the surf pounding rhythmically; the smell of salt and seaweed, the memory of cool water on my skin and the stretchy feel of salt drying on my back; the warmth of sun like butter melting through my body. Very effective.</p><p></p><p>Undoubtedly you have some favourite places you can use as part of an effective visualisation - a mountaintop at sunrise, maybe, no habitation for as far as the eye can see. If you are nervous of wildlife, then in your visualisation put a force-field around your location. You can put in whatever you want so the end result can be a bit surreal, but it can be very effective.</p><p></p><p>Sorry about the mix-up over the van. These things happen.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 46951, member: 1991"] Nomad, surely you meant "FOOT massage"? Although I'm really curious about the concept of a food massage, it could be relaxing if someone else was doing the laundry... BBK, I also like the communing with nature idea. Gardening is good. I remember once when I lived in a flat and was extremely poor, I stuck a sprouting onion in a glass of water, put it on the kitchen windowsill and occasionally would 'harvest' a short length or sprout to use on a tomato sandwich. That was as far as I could get into gardening back then! Alternatively for a housebound dirt-free gardener - try growing sprouts for salad. You can do it in a jar with muslin over the open end, held on with a :censored: band. First day - soak the seeds. Then rinse and drain, twice a day. To drain, leave the jar either on its side or upside down on the draining board. You probably should wrap something opaque round the jar to keep light out of it, or the sprouts may taste bitter. Or you can get one of those terracotta chia pets and grow alfalfa sprouts on it. A really good visualisation plus meditation on a regular basis can be good insurance against anxiety attacks. When you're practised at the visualisation and can snap back into it quickly, it can really help. The best visualisations are ones of a place you've really been, or have a photo of. If you can reinforce that visualisation with smell it's even better. I used to combine the visualisation with taking my pain medications, so just as the pain medications were beginning to take effect, the visualisation and meditation was really involved. it meant I built up a conditioned response and in an emergency I could use the visualisation as a substitute for pain relief, or an assist. A good visualisation should include sight, sound, smell, temperature - everything you can draw in to make it as real as possible. It helps to have a few you can use, depending on the time of year. For example, my most useful visualisation is a rainforest three hours drive north of Sydney. it's shady, it's near the sea so I can hear surf and seagulls in the distance and scrub turkeys scratching at their nest mounds nearby. There is a stream flowing through with a large, mossy strangler fig with roots among the brown river pebbles. Vines everywhere. Shady, cool, fragrant. But in winter, sometimes I need something warmer, something I can't use in the height of summer - the memory of lying in the sun on our beach. The slight sting of sun on my back; the sound of seagulls, the surf pounding rhythmically; the smell of salt and seaweed, the memory of cool water on my skin and the stretchy feel of salt drying on my back; the warmth of sun like butter melting through my body. Very effective. Undoubtedly you have some favourite places you can use as part of an effective visualisation - a mountaintop at sunrise, maybe, no habitation for as far as the eye can see. If you are nervous of wildlife, then in your visualisation put a force-field around your location. You can put in whatever you want so the end result can be a bit surreal, but it can be very effective. Sorry about the mix-up over the van. These things happen. Marg [/QUOTE]
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