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yeah, right. whatever. the ring reminds me of when i tried a biofeedback machine in my late teens. i was under amazing stress at the time & was having migraines that would have killed a horse. (sometimes lasting two weeks a pop) i had ended up in the ER for the third or fourth time in a month when my neurologist suggested trying biofeedback to reduce my stress (& therefore my migraines). i was willing to try anything (& by the time i was 25, i think i had tried everything) so i brought the machine home to give it a shot. it looked like an answering machine with two clips attached to it. one went on my chest & one on my finger. it emitted a tone that increased in pitch the more stressed a person got. the idea was to relax, focus on the tone & try to lower the pitch as much as you could. it all looked so good on paper. when i started getting another migraine i hooked myself up to this thing & gave it a shot. the tone cut right through my head & sent my stress level through the roof. i closed my eyes & tried the relation & breathing techniques that my doctor had shown me. the pitch got higher. this went on for a good half an hour & the only thing that happened was that my head got a lot worse & the tone kept getting higher & higher until every dog in the area & i were both howling in pain. i wanted to scoop my own eyes out with a spoon. finally i reached my breaking point. i smashed the machine until it stopped. as soon as the tone stopped i could feel all my stress drain out of my body. i lay back on my bed & fell into a deep, dreamless sleep. i did not wake up for almost a full day. so, i guess it did work after all. time to wrap up work. |
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