What to do when you're in a funk ... - Page 2

Bailey · 03-27-2006, 07:55 PM

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What to do when you're in a funk ...

Honestly? I take an extra 10 mg of Paxil, and crack open a really cold Pepsi.

Ain't nothin' that can't be fixed by anti-depressants, sugar and caffeine.

OK, OK... the shower is a true heal-all for me, too. I'm glad to read I'm not the only one who goes through this. I've always taken long, hot showers -- the emotional balancing, and mental rejuvenating that happens in there, is amazing! Not to mention the brilliant ideas that pop up. I don't know what it is, either. Maybe it's that feeling of being super-safe, warm and cozy? It's like it drops all the restrictive walls down, and lets a stream of free creativity loose.

Bailey

Stephen Davies · 03-27-2006, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Bailey

I've always taken long, hot showers -- the emotional balancing, and mental rejuvenating that happens in there, is amazing!

I love to take a hot shower, grab a good book and slide in between clean cool bedsheets...

-- and maybe a little Michael Blube' music if I'm feelin' romantic

That's my Euphoric Rejuvenation!

Now that I've just ruined my reputation as a gun slingin' red-neck Texan...

radioboyalan · 03-27-2006, 08:57 PM

I'm not very musically inclined, but I do know how to play a radio from
either end

We live on a small farm, and I seem to do my best writing/creative thinking when I'm outdoors. I take my chihuahua, Bear, for a walk, or go and sit near the fish pond for a bit to clear out the cobwebs. It almost always works. Then again, I don't really have a desk in a quiet spot in the house..so if I vanish for a while, my wife generally knows I'm writing something or working on a project.

I write a lot of things out by hand, then go back and put it on the computer
later.

Interesting thread. Whaddaya know! Copywriters are people too!

Andy Catsimanes · 03-28-2006, 01:33 AM

From THINGS THAT HELP http://www.vorza.com/thingsthathelp.htm
a list for writers
by John
Vorhaus

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SHOWERS. (Not because you stink.) It's a fact that falling water generates negative ions, which absorb our excess positive ions and make us feel "refreshed." Creative problems get solved in the shower for sound biochemical reasons. Story conferences can be fun there too.

From Capture Ideas
When They Come!
by Barbara Brabec
The "Power of the Shower"
http://www.barbarabrabec.com/homebiz..._they_come.htm

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Diane Wolverton once wrote a marvelous editorial for her newsletter (now out of print) about the "power of the shower." A shower," she said, "provides the right conditions to get your creative mind into full gear.

First, it's relaxing and soothing. Second, it's private time--no phones, no kids, no clients, no pressure to be anything but yourself. And third, the running water is full of negative ions, which have a positive influence on us."

In checking with other writers and business people, Diane learned she wasn't the only one who got bursts of inspiration in the shower.

Instead of waiting for those bursts of inspiration, she began to schedule them, taking her problems into the shower for resolution. In a "Nekkid Notes Notebook" kept in the bathroom, she began to record all her great ideas, solutions and brainstorms that came out of her little steam room.

"My shower is my own private idea-generating chamber," she reported. "I've written poems in there, organized conferences, planned meetings, written chapters for my book, rehearsed important conversations and scampered out dripping and cold to jot down just the perfect headline for an ad."

Can you, too, do some of your best work stark naked? "Try it," Diane urges. "You'll be amazed."

(emphasis added)

Thar's gold in them that negative ions!

Bailey · 03-28-2006, 01:41 PM

Negative ions! It's not nearly as special, having a scientific reason for it.

Ya' wrecked it!

Bailey

Andy Catsimanes · 03-28-2006, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Bailey

Negative ions! It's not nearly as special, having a scientific reason for it.

Ya' wrecked it!

Bailey

Not the first time I've rained on someone's parade.

Stephen Davies · 03-28-2006, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Bailey

Negative ions! It's not nearly as special, having a scientific reason for it.

Ya' wrecked it!

Bailey

Haha!

Science sometimes takes the "sexyness"out of life!

Andy, you should be ashamed!

03-29-2006, 12:26 AM

I don't have a shower.

But I find having a bath always makes me feel much better. And I get ideas etc. when I'm in it, although not specifically any more than at any other time (maybe because I don't have much of a problem with ideas).

Having a bath seems to be healing and rejuvenating. Or going for a swim.

Anyone know the science of baths?

Jane

Bailey · 03-29-2006, 03:55 PM

It's okay Andy, I'm just teasin' ya. I still love my shower.

Bailey