Juice Learns all Kinds of Hippie Hoo Ha

I am going to call the Kick Ass Law Firm tomorrow to accept the offer. That should give me the juice I need to write the paper that's due at 5 p.m. tomorrow. I haven't been able to convince myself to start it yet. I was going to get working on it tonight, but decided to go out for a couple of drinks with Matt & Buster instead. Then of course when I returned to school I was totally useless, and decided to stop putzing around and just go to bed.

Today, this lady from Lite Spa came in to talk to my clinic practice group about relaxation techniques and how to deal with stress. It was a really neat experience. I learned all kinds of new agey hoo ha re: chakras & meridians etc. The other funny thing is that she was talking about this beverage called calm. It's part of a line of beverages that have vitamins in them (others are radiant, immune, and slender). Anyway, she was really raving about calm, and she poured some for all of us to taste. It's sort of an answer to Red Bull, if you will. She was telling us about how great it is and said that she had had FOUR of them already that day. (It was only 1:30 p.m.). What? I just loved picturing that: "I'm stressed!" *Gulp* "Still stressed!" *gulp gulp!* "Ack! Hyperventilating! I have too much going on!" *gluggggggg* .... She was telling us about her drinking regimen with these beverages, and it sounds like she drinks about 8 a day. As many calms as it takes to destress, a radiant to improve her skin, an immune before she goes to bed, etc. Hilarious.

But let me share with you all a technique I learned that I plan to use to help me get to sleep at night.

If any of you are like me, when you go to bed at night, you start thinking about (1) everything you have to do tomorrow; or (2) everything you did not get done today. Because of this, I never sleep very well and often have a hard time getting up in the morning. So, her suggestion is that when you go to bed at night, instead think about something that happened that day that you are grateful for. Then, think of another thing you are grateful for. Ideally, you will think of three things, ruminate on those things, and go to sleep thinking about those things. This puts you in a calm, restful state, and moves the stressful things out of your mind. (She also suggested spraying some Lite Spa lavendar spray mist on your pillow, which you can purchase at her store for a mere $14.99). She suggested you make a deal with yourself, that if you starting thinking of things that you have to do, you will just get up and do them. So instead, think of things you are grateful for.

So, I'm going to bed now...and I have so many things to be grateful for, I might still be listing them when my alarm goes off.