My head is noisy at the best of times. Work noise, life noise, worry noise, pointless noise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I’m lucky I can quiet it down for a bit. Distract it with music, TV, a book, even an interesting file at work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I’m not so lucky my brain starts swirling about from thought to thought. One thing will remind me of another and off it goes until I’ve forgotten what I was trying to determine in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That was the case today when I was supposed to be relaxing, as needles placed by the acupuncturist to “calm my mind” were not expecting my buzzing brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From reno projects, to work deadlines, to questions\/worry about the state of the world, today brain was having none of the calm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now that it is time for bed I am hoping that it got most of its chaotic thoughts out, maybe then the needles placed to encourage better sleep will not have been a wasted effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe I can go to sleep and wake up feeling refreshed (odd concept, rarely happens) because a refreshed brain is much better at handling a buzzing brain that is worrying about the state of…well, everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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