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Old Mar 31, 2011, 12:57 AM
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Originally Posted by lavieenrose View Post
It also inspired me to want to learn the individual qualities of each chakra and do some specific "remedial" meditating, particularly regarding inner strength, power, self-control, love and compassion. Another youtube chakra video mentioned maybe the 3rd (?) chakra relating to being strong in the face of adversity. Definitely want to bone up on that one.

On an unrelated topic, I had this notion today to experiment by giving myself a mental task when the musical "pseudo-hallucination" was driving me bonkers, so I began counting backward by 7, starting at 100. It competed with the music, and after repeating this with other numbers counting backward from 100, the music weakened and eventually was imperceptible, if not halted. It eventually returned, but the temporary silence was glorious. It makes me wonder if I can weaken the neural pathway producing the music by forcing another task while it's happening. It needs to be an active enough task. For instance, reading is too passive. Since I'm very poor in math, it was just the right challenge. Hmmm.

I'm sorry for the anger and rumination you've been having, Sundog. I can get really obsessed too. I hope that you can get free of it soon. SS, I hear you about angst and money worries.

I'm in! I'd love to take this journey with you guys too!! The chakras are fascinating and I'm totally up for learning more about them and doing more chakra meditations.

I'm soooooooooooo happy you found a way to give yourself a break from the music! Yay!!! That's wonderful news!!!!! What an absolutely brilliant idea of yours to experiment with working a different part of your brain. I'm thrilled it worked so well!!!
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Thanks for this!
lavieenrose