Category Archives: Health and Fitness

Saturday Link Roundup

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Collecting Windows 10 “Anniversary Edition” Keyboard Shortcuts

Windows 7 Readyboot fix

Find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library

How to Remove Broken or Dead Tracks from iTunes
This article allowed me to tidy up my music collection.

WA Health – Centre for Clinical Interventions
Has a list of resources to assist with

  • Assertiveness
  • Depression
  • Body Dysmorphia
  • Distress Intolerance
  • Health Anxiety
  • Low Self-Esteem
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Disordered Eating
  • Panic Attacks
  • Perfectionism
  • Procrastination
  • Social Anxiety
  • Chronic worrying

On having a Mind Like Water and STOPing

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125314079_art-poster-print---zen-moment---artist-colin-anderson--- As part of the Getting Things Done methodology, David Allen talks about the martial arts concept of having a Mind Like Water.  I was talking to a friend the other day about it.  I mangled the quote at the time Jules, so here is the actual quote:

Imagine throwing a peddle into a still pond.  How does the water respond?  The answer is, totally appropriately to the force and mass of the input; then it returns to calm.  It doesn’t over-react or under-react.
– David Allen

Zendictive has a better version of the parable.  And some advice on controlling feelings.

STOPing.
From Zen Psychiatry, the STOP acronym:
Stop when you realise you’re about to get hijacked by your reaction.
Take a Breath
Observe how your body is reacting.
Proceed when you’ve done the first three (STO)

Saturday link round-up: I stopped breathing twice last night.

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And it’s not as bad as it sounds.  I suffer from sleep apnea, and I have an CPAP machine which records all sorts of data.  Including Central Sleep Apnea.
Anyhow, onto the web links:

CPAP vendors
SecondWindCPAP (I purchased a Resmed S9 APAP machine, which I’m very happy with)

CPAP Software
SleepyHead – software which allows you to read sleep data from some machines.

CPAP Forums and other resources.
Whirlpool Australia CPAP discussion.
Apnea Board
CPAPTalk