This is the best description I’ve heard for this method, I always thought it was bullshit because I never heard a description that actually explained how to do this other than “tap your head 20 times”.
I have anxiety-induced hissing, which sounds/feels different from sound-induced tinnitus (which I have also experience). Sound-based tinnitus actually sounds like you’re “hearing” something in your ears, whilst the hissing I have feels like it’s “inside my head”, if that makes sense. But this technique still helps!!
Here’s a visual I found because I couldn’t understand the instructions well
My ringing just went away for the first time in years. What is this blissful quiet.
wait wait i gotta try this, i don’t think i’ve had Actual Silence since i was like 5
HOW THE FUCK
Reblogging to save a life, and also because, even if you don’t have tinnitus, this is totally worth trying if you like new sensory experiences.
zoning out or imagining things is not dissociation. dissociation is a severe trauma response. fucking stop with this. you were not traumatized by your math homework and dissociating at your desk, you were uninterested and zoned out.
If you’re at my funeral and you think it’s a little boring, just spice it up. Drink a little too much. Flirt with a few people here and there. Start a fight. It’s what I would’ve wanted
Call it “lifehacking,” or just call it, “paying attention to how you stay organized” – I don’t care what you call it, I am an ardent practitioner of it.
I like improving my processes because I like what I do, and the more efficient I am at all of it (with apologies to Jenny Odell), the more of that stuff I can get done:
I want to do a lot of stuff. I am one of those people who is ten miles wide and one inch deep (it probably has something to do with imbibing Heinlein’s maxim that “specialization is for insects” at an impressionable age). There’s a million waterways I want to dip my toe (or my oar) into, and the better organized I am, the more of that stuff I’ll get to do before I kick off. I’m 54, and while there’s a lot of road ahead of me, I can see the end, off there in the distance. It’s coming, and I’m not done – I’m barely getting started.
I’ve been around lifehacking since the very moment it was born. I was there. I published the notes on Danny O'Brien’s seminal 2004 talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, “Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks”:
In the years since, I’ve cultivated a small – but mighty – repertoire of organizational habits and tools that let me get a hell of a lot done. Weirdly, many of these tools are things that other people hate, and I can see why – they use them in very different ways from me. That’s true of browser tabs (I loooove browser tabs):
And to-do lists, which will totally transform your life, once you realize that the most important to-do list is the one you maintain for everyone else who owes you a response, a package, or money:
Other essential tools languish in neglect, artifacts of the old, good web – the elegant weapons that dominated a more civilized age. First among these? RSS readers:
I will freely stipulate that people have a good reason to hate all this stuff. “Productivity porn” is often proffered as a mix of humblebrag (a way to make other people jealous of your almighty “productivity”) and denial (fiddling with your systems is a ready substitute for actually doing things). Many (most?) of the foremost self-appointed pitchmen for “lifehacking” are cringey charlatans peddling “courses” and other nonsense.
But if you keep digging, there’s a solid foundation beneath all the rot. At its very best, this stuff is a way to figure out what you really want to do, and to organize your life so that the stuff you want to do is the stuff you’re doing.
A lot of people get into this kind of thing thinking it’ll let them do everything. No one can do everything. The best you can hope for is to make conscious decisions about which stuff you’ll never get to, while leaving at least a little room for serendipity.
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