Here's a little self-talk paragraph I came up with to put yourself in a Dude mood:
"Relax. Let yourself feel at ease. You feel at ease. Mellow out even more. You feel very mellow, laid-back, and casual."
Actually very similar to a yoga technique I learnt ages ago.
You lie down and relax. Close your eyes. then begining with your feet you focus on the area in question, and think "feet, feet relax" (put your own wording in here whatever works for you).
Then focus on the calves and think "calves, relax, relax". As you focus on each area you may actually get a slight tingling in each area. You then work up to the thighs, the groin, the buttocks, the stomach, the chest, the back, hands, lower arms, upper arms, the shoulders, neck then finally the face, by the time you've focused on each area and performed the chant you should be suitably relaxed. I usually fall asleep by the time I get to the chest.
Though I do find smoking a big joint helps a lot as well.
They also call that progressive relaxation, I think. I've done that and it's great. That's a good method to relax, but it puts you to sleep, it doesn't really establish a mood or get you through the day. I tried to choose the words that describe the Dude and then make it into a short relaxing paragraph that you can repeat over and over until you get into a Dude mood ("ease" for taking it easy, for instance). I feel that it's too short and incomplete, though.
Quote from: meekon5 on April 13, 2010, 07:27:50 AM
Though I do find smoking a big joint helps a lot as well.
bwahaha
i just took a puff . not normally my thing anymore cuz i usually have to chauffeur kids around and also, no offence to kids, but they can be a real buzz kill. lol!
but man i got like no sleep last night and i was just BLEAAHHHH , even the idea of a simple household chore felt like too much for my weary body and mind.
LOVE a sunny afternoon with a puff. makin' pancakes....chillin'...thinking "ahhh , oh yes. right. THIS is how Dudes manage to cruise thru the ins and outs without stressing."
well, some of 'em, anyway.
How otherwise do i get Dudeish? I just picture The Dude and the look on his face when he puts on his sunglasses, says "ah fuckit" and tunes out TBL and his bums speech.
That or him laying on his rug listening to bowling sounds. The bathrobe in the supermarket always reminds me also.
Another thing I find is really helping is spending about a minute to two minutes just forcing yourself to smile.
Yep just that.
Smile for a minute every morning.
A combination of the Buddhist idea of laughter healing all ills, and recent medical thinking:
http://longevity.about.com/od/lifelongbeauty/tp/smiling.htm (http://longevity.about.com/od/lifelongbeauty/tp/smiling.htm)
http://ezinearticles.com/?Smiling-Is-Good-For-Your-Health&id=438527 (http://ezinearticles.com/?Smiling-Is-Good-For-Your-Health&id=438527)
It is doing wonders for me.
(Though they have recently disproved the "uses less muscles than a frown" myth)
I have smile lines. !! yay. however i also have perpetually-confuddled/thinking-lines...two of 'em, vertical, right between my eyebrows. i sh*t you not.
Quote from: meekon5 on April 15, 2010, 05:45:37 AM
Another thing I find is really helping is spending about a minute to two minutes just forcing yourself to smile.
Yep just that.
Smile for a minute every morning.
A combination of the Buddhist idea of laughter healing all ills, and recent medical thinking:
http://longevity.about.com/od/lifelongbeauty/tp/smiling.htm (http://longevity.about.com/od/lifelongbeauty/tp/smiling.htm)
http://ezinearticles.com/?Smiling-Is-Good-For-Your-Health&id=438527 (http://ezinearticles.com/?Smiling-Is-Good-For-Your-Health&id=438527)
It is doing wonders for me.
(Though they have recently disproved the "uses less muscles than a frown" myth)
Yeah, smiling and laughter really do work wonders. It's a fact.
Some time ago I watched a movie called 'Something Beneath'. Definitely not a kind of an Oscar winning movie but I found there an interesting prayer/spell against fear in Ojibway language, which goes in English like that:
Great Spirit,
teach us to love,
to heal the Earth
and each other.
I am life, I am love,
and I do not fear.
The second part can be used separately by those who do not wish to use any spirit imagery. Works as well.