“Your depression may be one of many stones that build walls, but it can also be used to build bridges.”

• +..monochrome meditation


• +..fractured and cohesive


• +.. hypnotic elegance

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Erickson asked him to sacrifice eight hours of sleep to overcome his insomnia. The man was appalled at this incredulous request, telling Erickson that he had only been getting two hours of sleep a night as it was. Erickson said he could relinquish the eight hours of sleep over four nights, which seemed more reasonable to the man. The client was told to put on his bed clothes at bedtime, but instead of going to sleep, he was instructed to spend the night polishing the hardwood floors in his home. The man followed Erickson’s directive for three nights. On the fourth night, after he got ready for bed, the man decided to rest his eyes for a few minutes before polishing the floors. That night he slept for eight hours. Erickson reported that the man kept the floor polish on his mantel, knowing that if he ever had insomnia again, the solution would be to polish floors. “That man would do anything other than polish his floors all night…” Erickson said, “…even sleep.”
Zeig, Jeffrey.