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Last Updated: April 2025.

🎵 Been listening to Pandit Kumar Gandharva's concert on loop. I did not like his voice initially, but I found myself returning to this concert again and again, and also discovered Raga Nat Kamod as a happy side-effect.

A particularly trying period has passed and I'm optimistic about the coming days. A technique that I've found useful to calm down is to:

1. Say the words out loud: "I choose peace".
   • This I find effective as a bookend to my day: either said out loud first thing in the morning, and/or while settling into bed at night.
2. Ask myself in the midst of a tumultuous moment, "what is one thing I can drop right now to feel better about instantly?"
   • By "drop" I mean "stop worrying/spiralling about"
   • This is a very newly-discovered technique, not battle-hardened like the first one.