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Enneagram Type 4 Board Archive To Tiggy, your acting question, melatoninPosted by Jasper on October 25, 1999 at 15:18:54: Tiggy, I know that with all that I've written about acting you'd think I was doing it professionally. Well, no. It is just a hobby. So I don't have equity card, or belong to the unions, etc. For me, it is a growth exercise. I don't think I could do it full time anyway because there are so many activities I've tried and others I will continue to try for personal growth and rejuvenation. Examples of things I've tried: yoga, aerobics (for 11 years, and couldn't give it up for play rehearsal), flotation tank/massage (experienced both a few times), trying new restaurants, book discussion groups (great books and gay mens groups), creative writing, acrylic painting, watercolors. Ethnic restaurants and seeing plays. Next year, I plan to take a calligraphy course, introduction to meditation, art therapy, aromatherapy, and a cooking class in which you watch a master chef from one of the restaurants cook a meal (I think I will pick an Italian restaurant). And yes, Meisner. Note: Except for Meisner and the Caligraphy, the others meet just once (one evening survey courses). One thing I did last year which some people thought was weird (they couldn't have been fours). I took a guided tour through a cemetery where famous Chicagoan's have been buried (the Marshall Fields, Potter Palmers, Cyrus McCormicks, etc.). As a four I found it very cathartic. The grounds were beautiful, and many of the older plots were mausoleums in art deco and earlier styles. Walking around contemplating death and how I want to be remembered, all those philosophical questions. People I told this to looked at me as if I was spooky. I will also try to retake a singing course somewhere else. You are right about what you told Karen in earlier post. Singing totally gets you touch with a very primal place; it does connect you with your long dormant inner spirit. I know this first hand. And you do not have to be a great singer who sounds like a bell, either. The trick is to find a song that means something deeply to you, and create a real or imaginary scene in which you would sing that song to someone you know. E.g., a tearful goodbye song; picture yourself singing that song on your front lawn to Jonathan, as he tells you he's moving to America. The relationship you have created will cause you to sing the song in a way that will make your audience understand. Even if you can't hit the high notes, it won't matter; the relationship in your head will come forth from the song, and this reality will do the trick. Melatonin: Maybe your waking up at 5 is telling you that's all the sleep you need. It may have affected your biological clock. You know, each person needs a different amount of sleep. I know that no matter what I do, I can't sleep more than seven hours, no matter when I go to sleep at night. How do you feel at 5 a.m.? That is the test. Other supplements that might help induce sound sleep: Valerian Root, Calcium Lactate, and L-Tyrosine and L_tryptophan. Maybe take these when you start to wake at 5. You don't want to pop another Melatonin at that time. Valerian and Chamomile might be your best bet.
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