Have You Tried Meditation?
I’m incredibly busy at work at the moment, as well as pretty occupied blogging in the evenings, both here, and at my UK personal finance site. This is making me tired.
My day job is one of those sedentary office things, so I’m not physically tired, as much as mentally tired. Needing to think whilst I’m blogging, whilst fun, can also be draining.
Normally, one of the best cures for tiredness is sleep and I’m a big fan of sleep. Sadly, it hasn’t done much for me lately. Although I’m tired, my mind is too busy to feel sleepy, and when I do sleep I’m having dreams about work 
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A friend of mine suggested that I try a meditation session. A natural born skeptic, I did slightly balk at the new age-ness of it but then I remembered that it almost certainly wouldn’t do any harm to try it once.
Somehow, I don’t think it was a proper Buddhist style meditation thing, which is probably just as well. We sat (on chairs) in a circle with some candles in the middle, someone read a story, and there were periods of music and silence.
Do you know what, it was really quite refreshing. I spent a lot of time concentrating on the candles, and not thinking. Normally I’m not very good at not thinking, but on this occasion it came quite easily. I felt a lot more relaxed afterwards.
Quasi-meditation. Better than sleep.
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Perhaps it worked so well because you broke completely from your routine. That alone may have been what you needed to shift gears and relax.