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2 whole years now of non-stop pain, which is always there in the background, but much worse when lying down in any angle.
"When my insomnia started I got so anxious, checking the clock every 15 minutes," says Bayley. "Eventually I just stopped caring. You lose the anxiety that is actually hindering you. Now if I can't sleep I get this peaceful excitement. I know I have time to try something out and have some fun."
... Somehow, I don't think the neighbours would be too happy if I were to get out my accordian now and start being 'creative' with it.
Paul Lehrer lay on a couch looking at the ceiling of a room on the third floor of the Commodore Hotel in New York and tried to relax.
But it wasn't, he recalls, "the most ideally relaxing situation". There was no music playing softly on the stereo, no aromatherapy or tea lights. Instead, because of the heat, the windows were thrown open and the air was filled with the fumes of buses and trucks. Lehrer's ears hummed with the clanging of the construction site across the street, where they were putting up a new skyscraper, and underneath that cacophony he could hear the bustle of Grand Central Station next door.
Worst of all, every few minutes an old man would come into the room and sharply upbraid him for not relaxing the right way. It was 1973 and Lehrer, a psychotherapist, had come to be treated and to train under an 85-year-old doctor called Edmund Jacobson.
Forty-four years earlier, in 1929, Jacobson had published a forbiddingly technical book called Progressive Relaxation, which detailed a procedure for removing muscular tension. But since the exercises in the book were designed to relieve pressure that was as much psychological as physical, Jacobson's work led to a surge in the use of the word "relax", in the sense of "to become less tense, anxious or stressed, to calm down".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34714591
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