Yes. A friend gave me a bead filled small bag. It's an "eye pillow" which is a scented bead bag you get in the bathing, relaxation isles and stores. It is with me at all times, even when I am out of the house I carry it in my back pack. I can be anywhere and start feeling that tunnel area feelings of floating and I open my back pack just enough to reach in (or take it out) and rub my hand along feeling the beads inside, or squeeze it so that the beads move around in my hand. It also reminds me that no matter where I am or what I am doing I am never alone. This friend gave me the bead pillow at a special time when we could not be in touch for a stretch of time to remind me that no matter how hard things got during the time we couldn't have contact to just take time to relax and know that I was never truely alone. Just by touching that bead pillow I remember all the work my friend and I did together when she was my therapist.
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