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Sunnybayes · 03-20-2007, 05:17 AM

okay, so noone wants to try it. Okay so I'll share my experience.

So I was sitting in bed this morning, and I didn't feel like getting up. Usually it would take me about 30 minutes of just sitting there in bed before I had enough energy to get up, even when I clearly had enough rest, like 9 hours. So today I thought I would try my advice. I was like... yea, this is stupid... I dont really want to get up, but I need to get up so that I can tutor online, and so I knew it would take me 30 minutes of just laying there before I would get up.

So I brought my hands together, starting laughing at myself because of how absurd this idea was, and I was like, okay... I'll give it a try any way. The magic of it was that it did not take any motivation at all to bring my hands together while laying there, and pressing is such an easy thing to do. but as soon as i did it, I was like "this is an absolutely stupid idea", but then you have to make the agreement with yourself that you wont stop until you get up, and I was like "no, I've already gotten used to this idea... its not going to work on me any longer", I could just hear and feel my mind getting more negative about how it was not going to work this time because nothing is fail proof. So then I remeber that when that happens then I just need to press even harder, when my mind becomes negative about it, I just press harder.

So then my minds like "okay, fine.... you win ,I'll get up, just because this is so stupid", and then I got up and it was not such a big deal, because you know, getting started is the hardest part, and after that it even feels good to continue.

Can someone who has trouble with getting up in the morning give this a try and let me know if it works for them? Because I am curious if this is just some weird trait of mine that makes it work only for me, or if this is something that would work for other people as well.

03-20-2007, 05:17 AM	#2 (permalink)
Sunnybayes Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 322	okay, so noone wants to try it. Okay so I'll share my experience. So I was sitting in bed this morning, and I didn't feel like getting up. Usually it would take me about 30 minutes of just sitting there in bed before I had enough energy to get up, even when I clearly had enough rest, like 9 hours. So today I thought I would try my advice. I was like... yea, this is stupid... I dont really want to get up, but I need to get up so that I can tutor online, and so I knew it would take me 30 minutes of just laying there before I would get up. So I brought my hands together, starting laughing at myself because of how absurd this idea was, and I was like, okay... I'll give it a try any way. The magic of it was that it did not take any motivation at all to bring my hands together while laying there, and pressing is such an easy thing to do. but as soon as i did it, I was like "this is an absolutely stupid idea", but then you have to make the agreement with yourself that you wont stop until you get up, and I was like "no, I've already gotten used to this idea... its not going to work on me any longer", I could just hear and feel my mind getting more negative about how it was not going to work this time because nothing is fail proof. So then I remeber that when that happens then I just need to press even harder, when my mind becomes negative about it, I just press harder. So then my minds like "okay, fine.... you win ,I'll get up, just because this is so stupid", and then I got up and it was not such a big deal, because you know, getting started is the hardest part, and after that it even feels good to continue. Can someone who has trouble with getting up in the morning give this a try and let me know if it works for them? Because I am curious if this is just some weird trait of mine that makes it work only for me, or if this is something that would work for other people as well.