Trying to stay focus on me.....this is a challenge

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Py,

Did you develop those practices on your own or learn them from someone? I ask because those are very old Buddhist practices to deal with emotions and discomfort. If you came up with them on your own, you have some good intuition. Maybe time for you to find a fig tree to sit under (the historical Buddha supposedly was sitting under a Sacred Fig tree - aka Bodhi Tree - when he realized enlightenment)?

They are also very much in keeping with the basic psychological maxim that to constructively deal with difficult emotions, we should lean in gently and with curiosity.

I've also found these kinds of practices (I wish I were better with hot and humid right now ... and mosquitoes) very effective once you work with them a while.