Schedule delays & last weeks summary & NEW color

Regretfully, access to the Internet complications along with a camping trip planned for late tomorrow evening until Sunday have been, and will be, interfering with my ability to post consistently.  However, following this weekend, I will be more available to remain more consistent, and keep focus on the color task at hand.  My plan is to utilize a color throughout this week and still report on it as normal, but the postings will all be compiled into one or two posts later next week.  Thank you for you patience and understanding. 

That being said, the listed benefits for Baker-Miller Pink include the following:

List ONE suggests:

• stress relief
• appetite suppressant
• reduced aggression

List TWO suggests:

• appetite suppressant
• relaxation
• stress relief
• calming aggression

My EXPERIENCE with Baker-Miller Pink:

• My BP at start of week = 101/84, My BP at week's end = 102/74
• some appetite suppressing--I was eating very light all last week:salads with fruits & nuts mixed in.
• I suppose calming aggression occurred, but I am not that aggressive to begin with; however, I seemed to have tapped into a sense of better communication and listening while wearing this color.
• some stress relief--this relates to the better communication. 
• difficulty reading
• eye strain (some ocular pain), perhaps related to the difficulty reading
• personal insight related to the masculine/feminine ego ideology

*personal note: I don't foresee wearing these again anytime soon (following the experiment) as the ocular pain and browning effect (noted in a previous entry) were very dissatisfying to me.

 

This week's N E W  C O L O R : A Q U A

Stay tuned for updates, but please be patient with this busy week ahead.  Thank you.

Internet was down

Internet was unavailable yesterday, so I was unable to post anything.  Today is "day break" and tomorrow is the start of Week Two.  I will be picking a new color tonight and will post something a little later in the evening.  That post will include a summary of the last week, a comparison between my experience & the suggested benefits listed for Baker-Miller Pink, and the color for the new week.  

sleepless and crafty

I'm not sure what happened internally over the last 48 hours, but I was wide awake last night until i fell asleep around 0430 (this morning) and woke up ready to start the day at 0845.  I said no way and went back to sleep until 1030.  I am usually in bed by 0000 (midnight).  I kind of freaked me out; i wasn't sure if I should just stay up and pull an all-nighter (which would not have been good for this coming evening with my son).  At 0400, I decided to take some melatonin which seemed to help.

Also, I can feel some sense of rejuvenated craftiness creeping into my brain space.  This is a really good feeling.  I feel as though I have been in a lull for a little while.  I went to Micheal's arts and Crafts and picked up a bunch of sick beads to knot up with some hemp cord.   I like that this sense of creativity is coming back.  It reminds me of watch a pot of water build up to the boiling point--first there is nothing, but then the burner slowly begins to redden and, yet still nothing.  The water begins to warm, small surface bubbles form on the bottom of the pot, I'll watch one give way and rise to the top, then wait, then wait some more, then--oh there goes another bubble, then another, and another, then pretty soon the surface bubbles are rising all over the place and it's time to put in the pasta!  Lol.  It feels like it's almost pasta time!

This week (Week One) is coming to an end tomorrow and I thought I would shed some light on what that is going to look like for the coming weeks ahead so I can keep things uniform.  I plan on writing a couple more posts for Baker-Miller Pink, then in between each week I will take one day off (so I will take this Monday off) from color lense exposure.  This is to give my eyes a little time off. This will allow a moment for some vitals to be taken at "resting rate" (i.e. blood pressure, mental processing, written summary for the week's end, etc.).  Along with summarizing the week just gone by, I will post the list of the proposed benefits and see how they line up with my observed perception of my experience.  *Please understand that I really have not looked at these lists since they were printed out.  So any similarities are just a glimpse at the possibility that the benefits could actually be as suggested as it relates to color therapy.

So-----two more days for Week One, a few more post on Baker-Miller Pink, and Week Two will start on Tuesday with a new color!

calm and ready to move on...=)

I have witnessed a new sense of confidence, low stress, humility as it relates to letting go of what I think others might be thinking, and oddly, the feeling of having better communication--something I read once related to a different color and thought "how could a color produce better communication?" I thought it was ridiculous until i reviewed my recent encounters and realized I was experiencing just that--better communication on my end.  However, I found myself waking this morning to the thought of "ready to move on to the next pair of glasses.  I will wait out the next couple of days with Baker-Miller Pink, but I realized my eyes feel strained after having them on after about two hours.  I've been trying to push through the uncomfortable feeling by going outside with them, as the strained feeling only seems more intense when I am indoors.

in addition...

A few things that I did not mention prior to this project taking off, perhaps hinted at but have not stated, is that this is not a controlled experiment--meaning, I am also involved in other forms of change and may not be able to fully decipher whether or not the glasses are the root of any transformations.  The other forms of healing I am involved in include float tank therapy, energy work including chakra clearing & meditation, creative expression through drawing & painting, and food consciousness (tough-and-go).  So, please understand that any noticeable/significant adjustments or changes observed/witnessed/experienced could be a combined effort of all these processes. 

That being said, I have found a significant level of calm that has overcome my inner being in the last day or two. Last night, I was invited into a situation that I would have normally, with impulsive reasoning, jumped at the chance, but found I was comfortable and calm in saying "no" and further more found a great deal of satisfaction, confidence, and strength in doing so.  Following the decision, I sat in my car, driving, and realized that this decision was profound in its very nature to be opposite of my natural desire to engage socially, but confident that my decision was made through careful analysis of safety and wellness.  The person giving the invitation was confused and demanded an excuse for my decision to back out, as it was an event loosely discussed for the last month; however, I found no reason to give an excuse falling back on the idea that no behavior needs explanation if it is the right behavior. While this is a common response I have, I believe the calmness that has come over  me in the last few days was the driving force behind the decision I made.  This, laughingly, does not count at giving an excuse, as I am merely documenting my thoughts, actions, and observations of self and others.  Thanks Baker-Miller Pink.

eye strain

I noticed that my eyes are feeling a little bit strained wearing Baker-Miller Pink for an extensive period indoors.  I am currently going back and forth wearing them for short periods of time and then taking a break.  Overall, I feel relatively calm.

hunger , sleep, and ego...

Yesterday I found myself hungry more often than I usually am.   In the past couple days, I've noticed a significant change in the way I'm sleeping: same time down, same time up, same amount of interruptions through the night--I'm just sleeping harder with very vivid dreams that contain many people from my childhood.  Also, I have noticed a troubling struggle with my ego while wearing Baker-Miller Pink --a mental fight between my masculine and feminine energies; this ingrained idea of being so concerned about what others are thinking.  It has left a very distasteful feeling in my head and in my gut.  It has given me a great opportunity to experience humility against my own ego, allowing my to put any kind of pseudo-prestige of idealized manhood off to the side for a minute (a week actually) and really just try to "view the world through rose colored glasses."  In light of this battled insight of my own psyche, it feels good to experience the nature of letting go of any kind of ego driven image that falsifies a persona. 

Blood Pressure

In addition to posting changes in mood and my opinions of the world through different colors, as well as any interactions I may have with others along the way, I will also be posting my blood pressure numbers at the beginning and end of each color week.  I will try to keep an account of how my food intake is progressing (without giving you a list of everything I do or do not eat; just a brief indication of any significant observations--more or less).


I did not sleep well last night, but that is nothing out of the ordinary--I have had intermittent insomnia for the last four years averaging about four to five hours of broken sleep per night.  I typically wake up or toss and turn throughout the night about three times; usually around 0300, 0340, and again 0430.  This does not make good for much productivity, but my hope is that the quality of sleep will improve over the course of these coming weeks.

All that being said...

I had my blood pressure checked when I got to work and it was 110/84.  For those that do not know blood pressure numbers (the short version): the first is blood into the heart, the second is blood going out of the heart.  110 is apparently really good, however the 84 is a little high. 

Some Pics

 BAKER-MILLER PINK

 

 

 

The Contrast

 

 

 

Without

 

 

 

With

Week 1: BAKER-MILLER PINK

...and so it begins.

DAY ONE

To better mix up the colors, I pulled them all out of the drawer and covered them with a quilt on my bed.  I blindly shuffled them and then let the energy from within determine the color by feeling around until the right one presented itself to me.  The first set is BAKER-MILLER PINK.

So far what I can say is that it is a subtle color shift.  Soothing.  At first, I was slightly disappointed in choosing this color as I was hoping for something more extreme, like indigo or magenta.  Then the thought occurred to me to "let go" all the while understanding that sometime "less is more"  and what I have seen in just the few hours into this color is that I miss the deep green hues of the trees around me.  This subtle change might be more intense to deal with than I had expected.

Baker-Miller Pink on a visual level offers a darkening of the trees, almost a browning affect, but pink-ens (of course) the wood fence and white clouds.  It pushes out the brown areas of grass in the yard distinctly separating them from the greener areas.

I have also had a difficult time reading with these lenses, as the pink seems to blend the paper in with the text.  This seems to be more so with smaller print.

Stay tuned for pictures to come and more experience.

Ready, set,...

I failed to share with all of you when the experiment will begin.

Monday, August 19, 2013

 

Tomorrow.  As soon as I wake up.  Blindly pick a pair from the drawer.  Start my day.  :)

 

Technically, the experiment has already begun.  The preparation to formulate this project was the beginning.  Now comes the fun part!  Participating in the action.

 

My hope for this project is to really just learn more about me and more about you; how I interact with the world around me, the world inside me, the balancing act of being, and how the surrounding world will interact with me.   I imagine several conversations beginning with someone being intrigued by the glasses I'll be wearing.   I believe a grand transformation will take place that has the power to be ever so subtle in my evolution with you.   

 

I'm not sure if you can tell, but I am really excited!!   

The Process...

 

So, here is the set.  Left side going down, then Right side going down, we have the following colors:

 

        Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Aqua, Blue, Violet, Indigo, Magenta, & Baker-Miller Pink.

 

     I have two lists that briefly describe the benefits to each color.  One list describes mood benefits while the other describes potential health benefits like lowered blood pressure, appetite suppressant, increase in digestion productivity, etc...

 

For this project, I will be wearing one color at a time for a stretch of one week per color.  Some colors will not be able to be worn throughout the whole day as they may have limited visibility depending on the function at hand (driving or working on the clock).  My hope is to write on my experience with the color of the week either every day or every other day, providing an overall summary to the week at the end of each week.

 

In addition to all that, I will be randomly picking the color by reaching into a drawer that they are all in and blindly picking one.  At the end of the week, after I post my experience, I will then post what the list says about the color just worn.  Until that time, I will not be reviewing the components of the list so as to not influence the outcome of the experience anymore than I have already exposed myself to the knowledge.  

Thank you for checking out this process with me and following along.
Be well, have fun, and remember to be kind to yourself.  You are worth it!

Coming Soon...

In the next couple of days I will post a deeper description of this upcoming experiement along with photos of the journey at hand.  Thanks for checking in!  In the meantime, please visit floathq.com. It was my involvment with the men and women at Flaot On that gave me the idea to undergo this journey...10 weeks, 10 glasses: 1 pair per week.  See the change.