From time to time, when tensions are high or I can sense an imminent, pervading uneasy energy, I do a little meditative exercise. Usually, it is a visualization or relaxation ritual; something easy to refocus my mind.
As exam time draws near, I will begin to show you what I do, and also some more advanced techniques for meditation and you can use it however you see fit.
So, in preparation for that, this week's blog will have you contemplating your "happy place" either real or metaphorical or imaginary. Please answer each of the following questions, using detailed, descriptive imagery-laden diction.
Where do you like to go to escape from the pressures of your life? (It doesn't have to be a real place). Why THAT place?
What is your best childhood memory? Describe it in detail.
Where and when do you feel your absolute best? Why?
What is the most soothing sound you can imagine?
Which colors affect your mood the most? How do those colors affect it?
When during the day do you feel the most at ease? Why? What is it about that time of day that provides comfort?
(60pts-400 words)
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The place i go when i want to get away is all in my mind i take my ipod and play my mix play list of every thing from Bush to BIGGIE and Janes Addiction to rise against blasts in my room i imagine i am alone in a forest and i am laying on the ground and there's no worries and a nice breeze and i look at the shy and all of my memory's are passing me and i like this cause as bad as things would get i can always find a happy memory that helps me a child hood memory that i like best is when i was ten i lived in motels growing up with my family and watching tv and we would all talk and joke and laugh and it would get bad sometimes but it made us stronger and i wouldn't trade those memory's for the world the time i feel best is when its just me and my sister talk about whats its gonna be like when we all live together and what we are gonna do with the kids i feel that way because i am excited about it i love the kids. The most soothing sound i can imagine is the piano played song in a movie called Some Where in Time its a nice instrumental. The color That make me feel the best are green and black for reasons because i like places like forest and the the night time red on the other hand makes me nervous probably because of flashing lights . The time of day that i feel best is when school has just ended and i walk up to my room and there is nobody and i can lay down and relax i like this part of the day i like the most because i just got done dealing with everything and everybody its that little bit of me time that i need that keeps me from randomly getting mad and not wanting to be around people.
ReplyDeletei like to escape in the world of my video games because almost anything can happen and some are puzzling and challenging. my best childhood memory is fishing with my grandfather as he would say lets go catch dinner and we just go out to the docks with my uncles and talk shit and fish damn those were good times.the most soothing sound to me is rushing water like a waterfall or rainfall the sound just calms anything i feel and just makes me so happy as if all the sorrow all the pain all the hate just disappears. the color that affects my mood the most is red blue and green. red is what i see when im angry or hyped up with energy. blue is what i see when im calm and relaxed and with loved ones. green is my mellow color just no feeling when i see green. lastly the times of day when i feel most at ease is at night and any time it rains because at night the stars come out and fill the sky with beauty, and like i said earlier in this writing what the rain does for me
ReplyDeleteSometimes when I can’t think of things to calm me down I retreat to my thoughts, mostly being the end of things for that friendship, relationship, or knowledge of proper action. Not one of them is healthy for you. For some reason every time I go there I feel safe like nothing can touch my reasoning. I have always thought that I was stupid and couldn’t think right so my thoughts helped me feel smarter. It wasn’t until recently that I found out that I was really a smart kid. Thinking that I was probably did it hiding in my head and thinking was rather a good thing not a bad thing as I had seen.
ReplyDeleteAs a child my brother always made fun of me making it difficult to develop a relationship with my brother. It was as if he didn’t care that I was his brother. He called me a whale because I was a little chunky, because I was a little bigger than him. He forced me back into my head making me think more.
Thinking back to my little childhood days I felt most comfortable and at ease when I was debating or conversing with someone about a deep topic making me think more and putting the two or more of us at the same thought level. With time I was able to surpass the kids in my grad, and most kids at the school, in thought level. Hopefully this thought educing habit will help me later in life and increase my thinking speed enabling quicker thought patterns and other things helpful in life.
Some times when I was a child trips would come up, lending my head to wonder and think about things. My mind always played games with sounds and lights and numbers more than I thought possible. Sounds always made me motion for sleep, it always was a repeating sound but mostly I listened played a game with it then fell asleep.
When I played with the colors I always played with the car colors and other ones more common, always ended up with a lot of one color making me try to figure out why there was more of one color. I don’t think ill ever really know what its like being able to know some things but hey its worth a try with something’s.
One place I can always depend on to get rid of all pressures in life would be my room. Yes my room. When I go into my room and play my music, it seems like no one in the world can bother me. My best childhood memory would be playing basketball. I seriously think that we used to play basketball everyday. We would always call each other up, pick a time to play, and play until it gets dark outside. It’s seriously one memory I will never forget because that’s when all of us get together and have a great time playing a nice friendly game of basketball. I can feel my absolute best anywhere as long as I’m listening to my iPod. I feel like the king of the world when I listen to my iPod. It’s just this feeling I get when I listen to music. One sound that I absolutely love is the sound of rain. When I’m alone and not in a good mood, the rain can most definitely cheer me up. It can also put me in a bad mood as well. It’s just basically the way you think of it. You can say that some colors affect my mood. I really like bright colors. They seem to put me in a better mood. Dark colors do not suit me. I just think that they put you in a bad mood. The time of the day when I feel most ease is during the night time. Mostly when I’m lying down in bed. Everything just seems so relaxing.
ReplyDeleteMost of my stress and pressure come from my house and school.
ReplyDeleteSchool because… Well it’s just school, and it getting warmer out and us not having air won’t help the situation. Home, well home has never been a relaxing place for me. Although I do tend to go in my room a lot when I am at home and stressed. Just turn up the music, Post on FB how much my life sucks and try to get over it.
At school the best place to be is 206 or gym, cause in gym one of my best friends are there and I can pretty much just vent about my day.
I lay in my bed with my music loud I pretend I am on the beach, But one far from NJ. I love the beach, I love water, love the smell of the salt water. I can be in the worst mood ever, Go to the beach and feel the warm sand and cool breeze and everything just blows away with the wind. Even since I was little I have always loved the beach and the water.
I feel my best in a few places. I feel best when I get to sleep in on a Monday cause we have off, even tho I only sleep till 8… That’s another 3 hours and it feels good!
I feel my absolute best I hear “Crane call, All T-Boats.” I grab my gear and head to the dock, Where my Uncle is waiting to strap me into my cockpit. When I am sitting in that cockpit, all my problems go away. I feel great, like I could not only take on the other 8 people getting strapped in but the world.
When I hear the pit-boss say “1 to 5”, My uncle closes my canopy and says good luck, I get goose bumps and for the next 9 ½ I am one of the happiest people in the world! I couldn’t if I tried to, even have a thought about school, or home, or moms and dads, and what not.
I kinda don’t get the whole color question. I don’t understand how colors make you happy. But I will try.
I don’t like dark colors. Not even when I am sad. I like bright colors. Colors that are pretty. Colors everyone wants to see. Like Red, and Orange and Green and Blue.
I feel most at ease when I am on the bus in the morning. Yea I know that makes no sense but listen. I think of it this way, I am going to make it to school, unless my crazy bus driver tries to run away with us, I am on my way to school. Which isn’t easy for me, but when I do come, or am on my way. I feel relief. Also When I am on my way home from school. I just completed a day of school and I get to relax for awhile till my Aunt and Uncle comes home and all hell breaks loose. Or when I am leaving Jersey that feeling you get, like you just left all your problems for the weekend, even though you know that they will be there when you get back it still feels good!
Childhood memories are tough for me, but some of the best were when I was real young like 7 or 8 and I would go to my grandparents house on the weekend and we would always go somewhere and do something awesome, the only part I hated was when I had to leave.
The sound of rain is AMAZING! When it rains I lay with my bedroom window open at night just to hear it.
I know rain is known as gloomy and sad, but I like the sound of it, the feeling also but the question was whats the most soothing sound. It would have to be rain, and the ocean!
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Now, like mostly 90% of people, I have a lot of things to deal with every day. Whether it’d be school, activities, or stuff at home. But I think the one place I can go to when I’m mad at something is my room. I just shut my door, lock it and just either drum on my practice pad or listen to some relaxing songs on my iPod, like R&B or smooth jazz. I can do these two things for hours and just be happy, calm and relaxed. It helps to take some of the negative stuff that’s going on in my life. I say my room is the most relaxing place because I’m there for about 15 hours a day. I pretty much live in there and grew up in it. It’s the place where I can be me. It’s quiet and no one’s there to judge you or talk about you, like at school or somewhere else supposedly. I haven’t really had a lot of good childhood memories, but the one I can remember and can say is my best would probably be when I was in the 5th grade. That, I can say would be my favorite year of school ever. Everything was great, my teachers, friends, and activities we did, and not to mention we won Field Day that year. After 5th grade, I realized school wasn’t fun anymore, and I still think of that today. I say my room is where I feel my absolute best, or just hanging out with my friends in general, laughing and having a good time. The most soothing sound I can imagine is, like I said, either some R&B or smooth jazz music. I can honestly be relaxed or even fall asleep when I list to it. Or just silence in my room and all you can hear is the wind blowing, or the rain outside if it’s raining. If I’m happy, then the color that would affect my mood would probably be a bright color, like a blue, red, or green. (My favorite colors.) Or if I’m mad it’d be a dark color, like a brown, black, or gray. (Not so much my favorites.) I say after 5th period is when I feel the most at ease, because after that my day is so easy and fun. I have Study Hall, Gym, Lunch, Web Design, and Band. It’s pretty tough for me in the morning because I can be tired and weary, and have to deal with my challenging classes first. But after that, my day goes smoothly, and I like that.
ReplyDeleteOmg lol my last weeks blog would have been a perfect response to this but anyways let me try to dig deeper and find something else. My happy place has always been my future when ever something gets me mad or upset in the present I like to think about how I’m going to fix it in the future. I like to plan that situation out in my head and set it up so that if I’m ever in the same predicament Ill know how to handle it in the future. I like to do this because it makes me feel like I’m in control of that situation. The thing that people hate the most is not being in control so if I set my self up its less possible for me to fail. My best child hood memory I believe is what I told you about last blog. The time that me my mom, dad and my brother all went to Disney land in Orlando Florida. It was my best memory because everything about it was complete happiness and paradise. Family all together no fighting just bonding and good times. It was just great from the moment I jumped on the plane to depart to the time I arrived back at my door. It was just great It was just a place where I could enjoy my youth and spent it with my lovely family. I feel my absolute best when I’m at home just chilling doing what ever I please with out having to worry about others judgment. When I’m at home I feel free it like all the stress in the world is removed and I can just think about life, and how my day went and things along that line. It’s good for me to have this time and place it allows me to equal out the bad with this positive place and attitude. The most soothing sound I can here is music. Not any music but the kind of music that I like, it just puts me in a good place music is a main part of my life and I like to listen to it as much as possible. Most of the time it makes me happy. My favorite color has always been green everything green is great like foods I like kiwis, broccoli, artichokes, colored greens, and spinach all of these are some of my favorite foods. Also money is green and so are trees I really like trees. Whenever I’m around green it makes me happy. I feel most at ease once I get off the bus and walk to my house this is the time where I feel like I’m being released. Although school is fun I like most of my teachers and the students. But I feel like I’m a prisoner and as soon as I’m off that bus I feel like I’m released from my cell and I’m free to do whatever I please. Hope u enjoy my response
ReplyDeleteWhen I want to escape from the pressures of my life I like to go to my room, lay in my bed and listen to music, because I can be by myself without being bother. I also do something weird when I am sad, I like to go to an "unreal" place, where I start to imagine a perfect life for me, everything that is going wrong at that moment I will fix it in my imagination and think that I am living in that unreal place without problems and with lots of good things. I like to go to that unreal place because I can escape reality and feel happy and relaxed for a few minutes.
ReplyDeleteMy best childhood memory was when my dad used to came to visit me and we went to vacations to an island in Colombia with my mother too. The beaches over there are so beautiful, but the thing I liked the MOST was that we all three were together as a family, so that made me very happy because I had both of them at the same time, it rarely happened because my dad was always working outside the country so I didn't get to see him much often. I liked it when we all were playing in the ocean, eating together, taking pictures, having fun. I pictured myself drawing things on the sand like my mom's and dad's name in a heart. I really enjoyed my life when I was little because I didn't have to worry too much about problems and I didn't have to deal with stress.
When I am with my boyfriend I feel my absolute best, I forget about all the problems or things I have to get done when I am with him. It is like I am in a closed bubble where it is only me and him. I feel so happy when we go out or even when we are sitting at the car. He is unique in my life, and he makes my day even if I just see him for ten minutes. I haven't have somebody like him in my life, someone I can always count on, someone I can talk to at 3 am or cry in his shoulder. Yes I have "friends" but I see how one day I can talk to them and the other day is a different story so they are more like people I spend time with. My boyfriend takes out all the stress inside me, so when I am having a bad day, I know that I have somebody that can fix it.
The most soothing sound I can imagine is listening to the rain, I love to sleep when is raining, because it just make me more relaxed and sleepy. I don't know why but when it rains I put my mind on thought and start to think about everything. I love when it rains, but ONLY when I am going to stay home. When I am happy I like colorful colors, like yellow, purple, green etc. you even can see that in the way I dress, because when I am in my "whatever" mood I pick dark colors, but when I am happy and hyper I like to dress with bright colors. The time of the day when I feel most at ease is when school ends and I go to Wawa to buy a coffee and a banana muffin with my dad. I like this time of the day because I am not in school dealing with all that work, and Wawa just makes my day, coffee and food provides me comfort.
The one place where I like to escape to is my room and because well its my room. My whole life growing up I spent a lot of time in my room so I made sure that I had everything in my room from entertainment to comfort. For example, I have my stereo if I want to zone out and just listen to music, my Xbox if I feel like owning some noobs or playing with friends, I have my computer which I know everything about and I’ve hooked up to the fullest so now it is capable of doing anything. Last but not least my bed, the most comfortable bed in the world. Queen sized bed with like three softeners and one big quilt and four pillows. I go to sleep feeling like boss every night.
ReplyDeleteMy best childhood memory had to be when my dad was still with my mom and I lived in Connecticut. This is just where everything I did was fun because my dad being a guy related a lot more with me and my brother and that was when the dirt bikes, go carts, paintballs, street hockey, football, basketball, track and eating was intense. So I guess you could say that my best childhood memory was having my dad around.
There isn’t a specific place when I feel I am at my best but if I had to choose a place I would have to say on stage or performing like in a sport. And when? 24/7 365 ¼ days a year. I feel like I am always at my best if I truly want to be at my best I have that much body control that when I know shit needs to get done I will get it done for example this blog. Hell to the no I am not in the mood to do this but yes I am getting it done. I come home and I just want to sleep after track and dancing instead I'm getting my work done and doing what needs to be done.
The most soothing sound I can think of is either the fan on at night or a beach where the waves are smacking against each other. Also, another sound that comes to me is Puerto Rico and trusts me there is no sound like the forest at night.
No real colors affect my mood, I'm not to big on colors like that I'm a pretty simple person and I feel every color has a good and a bad side to it so to me every color is neutral.
AH! The best time of day is definitely at night after a long day where I had sport like a football game were things would be a lot more physical than any other day then after you get out that shower and just lay on your bed. Like I said before there is nothing like your bed and well I think at anytime during the day is the perfect time to be on your bed.
I have had many good and bad childhood memories, but one stands out to be the absolute best childhood memory, well at least that I remember is when I went to Disney World when I was six with literally my whole entire family. It was like a huge family reunion. This was my best childhood memory because I had so much fun. It was many many years ago but I still remember it like it was yesterday because of how much fun I had on that trip.
ReplyDeleteNow lets talk about my happy place. When I visualize my happy place I picture a world that is all mine. All the money I want, I can chill with my friends whenever I want, and most importantly, I’m always happy. I would love a place where I am always happy because then you wouldn’t have to worry so much, and we all know worrying builds stress, an I would LOVE a world without stress!
I feel my absolute best when I am with my family. I feel the best when I am around my family because I know I can just be myself with them. You know how sometimes you have to act a certain way to try to fit in with a group of people? Well when I’m with my family I don’t have to do that, I automatically fit in.
The most soothing sound I can image is the sound of rain. The sound of rain beating down on your roof is just such a relaxing sound. Whenever it rains at night I know I am going to get a good night sleep because that sound works like a sleeping pill.
There are colors the effect my mood positively and negatively. The colors that most effect my mood in a positive way are orange and yellow. The color yellow effects my mood in a positive way because it is my favorite color. I wouldn’t want my favorite color to put me in a bad mood. The color orange also effects my mood in a positive way because it is such a bright color, and bright colors are a sign of happiness to me. The colors that effect my mood in a negative way are the colors black and brown. The color brown effects my mood negatively because it is such a bland color. That’s why nobody likes gami, because they have such bland colors. Also the color black effects my mood in a negative way because it is so dark. How can you be happy with the color black? Black is a color of evil and evil people do bad things. I’m not a bad kid so therefore the color black has a negative effect on me.
The part of the day that I feel the most at ease is when I come home from school ay 3:00 on a Friday afternoon and plop my but on the couch. This is the time where I feel the most at ease because it just feels like you get a huge break. It is relieving because you don’t have to come home and worry about homework, you have a whole two days to do it, and that to me is very relieving.
Hmm...another blog and another hard response but here it goes...Lets see...the place that i would like to escape to my girlfriends house because i know that when im there im the REAL me and my girlfriend brings out the best in my and i just feel like i can relax here and just forget about everything else going on and just focus on her and her only. When im here i feel like im free and im just the happiest person alive and nobody could change that ever. This is really the ONLY place i'd escape to because everywhere else that im at im not myself and im not the happy person that i should be all the time. My best childhood memory would have to be when i was around 6 or 7 and i went to Alaska with my family to visit my aunt,uncle and 3 cousins. When we went there all we did was have fun and never did anything that wasnt exciting. The things we did when i was there included: visiting an ice glacier,becoming a park ranger,quading,video games,biking,picnicing,traveling,shooting guns on the gun range, and even more quading. When we went quading as a family it was fun but then after everyone was done everyone but my dad,uncle,and i left and the three of us went quading as guys and i just felt like a guy and i felt really cool and i just had so much fun and i also remember when my dad told me not to take the quad out of 2nd gear and i went all the way up to 5th gear.We went through so many lakes with the quads and my uncle on his dirtbike and i also remember my uncle stalling out in the middle of one and thank god we were near the end of the lake because if we werent then he wouldve been s*** out of luck.To me the most soothing sound is a waterfall because it just sounds so relaxing and it just honestly relaxs me.Another thing that soothes me is the sound of the beach and just the ocean breeze and the sound of the waves crashing onto the beach.I feel the absolute best when im with my girlfriend because like i said...she brings out the REAL me and i just feel like the luckiest man in the world.Out of all the colors i think that gray effects me the most because when its cloudy out it just turns my outlook on things to negative and i just have an attitute and it just turns my whole day to crap.The time of day that i feel most at ease would have to be when im laying in bed about to fall asleep because i know that im going to wake up to text my AMAZING girlfriend the next morning and i know that its another day to go to school and to see all my friends.its now 10:34 at night and im really tired,and Ms. Bunje im not going to be in class tomorrow because of a family emergency so im sorry.I'll miss you.
ReplyDeleteThe place or thing I find myself doing is sports. If its playing wall ball with my lacrosse stick, in the weight room, throwing the football and even being with friends and just talking about the good times. Those things help me a lot when I’m having a lot of pressure on me. My best childhood memory would have to be when my father and I went to Philly sporting events and we needed tickets so we would just walk around asking for tickets and people would say they had them and then I would look over past my dad and the people would see my red hair and just loved it. So u could say my dad used me for tickets but I didn’t mind at all. I feel great almost every day, but I would I real feel good would have to be with my family. Just being with them and spending great time with them makes me feel good about myself and who I am. A soothing sound would have to be friends talking and how we talk about the old times. That’s a great sound to listen to. Colors really don’t do much for me or don’t hurt me so I couldn’t answer that question. The middle of the day would have to be my best time. I’m awake and know what’s going on around me. During this time I know I’m ready for anything that is thrown at me. If it had to do with life or just how to answer one little question, I know that that time I can do great things and feel great doing them.
ReplyDeleteWhen the going gets too tough I retreat to my room
ReplyDeleteI know its safe and my music and guitar is there so I can let it out through music, and sometimes express how I feel through music for the inexpressible emotions. My favorite childhood memory is when my parents saw my first soccer game, I scored my 27th goal of the season and it was playoffs even though we lost my parents were actually there so I didn’t care much. I feel the best around my friends because I can trust them and I am safe. Strumming my guitar because it’s just my favorite instrument and I love music so its something I need to live.
With colors its hard to say what effects me but darker colors are more of likable when im mad or angry and green and blue when im happy.
In the early morning when im just waking up and going to bed im the calmest I can slow down the day play the guitar and listen to music without interuption