u/RemarkableMot

Hi! I'm currently recovering from a pretty severe burnout and my energy levels are very low.

One of the things I want to work on is reconnecting with my body. I feel quite disconnected from it and tend to focus mostly on symptoms rather than actually feeling my body.

I'd love to try Qigong, but I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the different styles, teachers and videos.

I'm looking for something very gentle and beginner-friendly that I could do for maybe 5-15 minutes, possibly a few times a day, even on very low-energy days.

Any specific YouTube videos, teachers or simple Qigong routines you'd recommend for this?

My main goal is less about exercise or fitness and more about slowly reclaiming a sense of connection with my body.

Hi! I'm currently recovering from a pretty severe burnout and my energy levels are very low.

One of the things I want to work on is reconnecting with my body. I feel quite disconnected from it and tend to focus mostly on symptoms rather than actually feeling my body.

I'd love to try Qigong, but I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the different styles, teachers and videos.

I'm looking for something very gentle and beginner-friendly that I could do for maybe 5-15 minutes, possibly a few times a day, even on very low-energy days.

Any specific YouTube videos, teachers or simple Qigong routines you'd recommend for this?

My main goal is less about exercise or fitness and more about slowly reclaiming a sense of connection with my body.

Hi all,

I’m currently dealing with pretty severe exhaustion/burnout-like symptoms and my capacity is very low.

One thing I’m struggling with is that I feel a lot in my body, but very little emotionally.

Throughout the day I can experience things like feeling wired or “switched on,” tingling, restlessness, dizziness, heaviness or pressure in my head, and a general sense that my body is constantly giving me signals.

But I don’t really feel much underneath that emotionally. Sadness, anger, joy, excitement, etc. all feel distant or flattened. It’s almost like I’m very connected to physical sensations, but disconnected from the emotional layer behind them.

In the past, I’ve experienced that breathwork could sometimes help me get through a kind of physical barrier and access something deeper emotionally. That was with a fairly intense technique involving faster and deeper breathing. I don’t think that kind of intensity is appropriate for me right now because my system feels very sensitive and my energy is extremely low.

What I’m looking for now is something much gentler.

I’d like to learn how to stay with bodily sensations in a way that feels safe and manageable, without just monitoring symptoms, and maybe gradually notice what is underneath them emotionally.

I’m especially interested in Somatic Experiencing-style practices or other somatic exercises that are:

• very low effort
• suitable for someone with almost no energy
• possible lying down or sitting
• not physically intense
• not focused on pushing through discomfort
• gentle enough for a sensitive / easily overwhelmed system

I’m open to breathwork as part of this, but I’m also very interested in things like orienting, pendulation, titration, tracking sensations, grounding, or anything else that might help.

I’d really appreciate concrete things I can try immediately, because I don’t have much energy to research a lot right now.

If possible, please share:

• a specific exercise
• a guided YouTube video
• a short routine
• what you focus on during the exercise
• how long you do it
• what helped you personally reconnect with emotions rather than only noticing physical sensations

Has anyone here experienced something similar, where the body feels very “loud” but the emotions feel far away?

Thanks!

Hi all,

I’m currently in a period of pretty severe exhaustion/burnout-like symptoms and my capacity is very low.

One thing I’ve noticed is that I feel quite emotionally numb/flattened. At the same time, I experience a lot of strange physical sensations throughout the day: feeling wired or “switched on,” tingling/restlessness, dizziness, heaviness or pressure in my head, and generally being very aware of what is happening physically.

Because of that, it currently feels like most of my attention goes toward monitoring bodily sensations, while I have very little access to what I’m actually feeling emotionally. I don’t really feel sadness, joy, anger, excitement, etc. very clearly at the moment.

In the past, I’ve experienced that breathwork can sometimes help me get through a kind of physical barrier and access something underneath. That was with a much more intense technique involving fast, deep breathing. I’m not looking to do something that intense right now because my system feels much more sensitive.

What I’m looking for now is breathwork that can help me come back into contact with my body without overwhelming it, and maybe gradually notice not only the physical sensations themselves, but also what might be underneath them emotionally.

I’m open to both shorter and longer practices. Sometimes I could do 5 to 15 minutes lying down during a rest break, but I could also do something longer while sitting if that makes more sense.

What I’m mainly looking for:

• gentle, low-effort techniques
• suitable for a very low-energy state
• no intense hyperventilation, long breath holds, or anything that strongly raises heart rate
• lying down or sitting are both fine
• short practices are welcome, but longer sessions are also fine
• ideally focused on body awareness, grounding, emotional awareness, or reconnecting with yourself

I’d really appreciate concrete recommendations rather than just names of techniques.

If possible, please share things I can immediately try, for example:

• a specific breathing pattern
• a guided exercise
• a YouTube video
• an app/session
• how long you personally do it
• what you focus on while breathing

I don’t have much energy to research lots of different methods myself right now, so small and practical recommendations would help a lot.

Has anyone been in a similar state, where physical sensations were very present but emotions felt distant or inaccessible? What actually helped you reconnect?

Thanks!

Just got a MicroFreak and want a cheap drum machine for dawless jams.

Main priorities:

• quick mute/unmute of drum parts
• easy pattern changes
• little to no menu diving
• intuitive live workflow
• not too small/fiddly

I already have a PO-33 and find it way too fiddly.

The drum machine doesn’t need to be the star of the setup. I mainly want a simple backbeat/percussion machine I can manipulate quickly while focusing on the MicroFreak.

My concern with the RD-6 is that it sounds a bit thin/hollow to me.

The Volca Drum/Sample sound more interesting, but I’m worried they’ll be less immediate for live jamming.

Budget: under €120 second-hand.

Which would you pick?

Oh hi people,

I’m trying to order a few things from Tommy’s website to the Netherlands:

- The Room script

- The Room Blu-ray

- Big Shark Blu-ray

A couple of questions for people who’ve ordered before:

Does Tommy usually sign anything in the order?

It doesn’t really matter to me which of the three it is. I’d just love to get at least one thing signed by Tommy. Is that something he tends to do, or only when an item is specifically advertised as signed?

What’s the deal with the Blu-ray pricing/bundles?

Some of the Blu-rays seem to be more expensive on their own than when they’re included in a bundle with other merch. Is there any downside to just getting the bundle instead? Very normal business, very normal pricing.

Has anyone in the Netherlands or elsewhere in Europe managed to order from the site?

If so, how did you do it? Forwarding service, different shipping method, etc.?

And if there’s really no way around it, would anyone in the US be willing to receive the order and forward it to me? Obviously I’d cover the order, shipping and any extra costs.

Don’t worry about it. Everything will be fine.

Hey there beautiful people,

I'm a novice music producer falling in love with the dreamy, introspective sound of Giegling more and more every day.

I was wondering if there are any good tutorials or breakdowns that capture this sound. I'm finding it surprisingly difficult to search for, because there doesn't seem to be a clear genre name. Depending on who you ask, it's described differently, and searching by individual artists hasn't been very successful either.

Some of my favorite tracks:

Map.Ache – Seis

Dwig – Orange Evening

Leafar Legov – Cenote

Traumprinz – Padallaxis

L.B. Honne – a Means a

Traumprinz – aaAngel for M (this one is so special)

I'd really appreciate any tutorials, production tips, or even genre names that point me in the right direction.

I’ve been collecting music for years through recommendations, DJ tracklists, Soulseek and various rabbit holes.

The thing is: I barely know most of these tracks.

Recently I went through roughly 3000 tracks and quickly filtered them down to about 600. I only kept tracks that gave me an immediate positive reaction and that I could realistically imagine playing at a future party.

The catch is that I still haven’t properly listened to most of those 600 tracks either. I probably know less than 5% of them well.

I’m also fairly new to DJing. Up until now I’ve been much more of a collector than an actual DJ. I’m only now trying to seriously build a library and learn my music.

My goal isn’t to have thousands of tracks. I’d rather have a smaller, curated collection where every track earns its place.

Part of me is wondering if I should almost start from zero.

Even 600 tracks feels overwhelming when I barely know them. On top of that, I still need to listen to them properly, tag them, organize them by energy, genre, color, vibe, etc.

I’m worried I’ve simply reduced a large pile of unknown tracks into a smaller pile of unknown tracks.

Would you continue working with the 600, or would you start a fresh library and only add tracks after you’ve properly listened to and vetted them?

If you were in my position, what would you do next?

• Keep reducing the 600 further?
• Stop deleting and start listening?
• Build playlists/crates?
• Rate/tag everything?
• Learn tracks through mixing?
• Start from scratch?

How would you turn 600 mostly unknown tracks into a library you actually know and trust?

Hi everyone,

I’m currently at home recovering from burnout, so returning these items to an IKEA store isn’t really an option for me right now.

I noticed IKEA offers a pickup return service, but it looks like I would need to create a separate return request for each order, which would mean paying the collection fee multiple times.

I have several larger items that need to be returned from the same address at the same time, so I was wondering if anyone has experience with IKEA combining multiple returns into a single pickup and charging only one collection fee.

I also have one item that is assembled and in like-new condition, but I no longer have the original packaging. Has anyone successfully returned an assembled IKEA item without the original box?

I’m mainly looking for real-world experiences before I contact customer service.

Thanks!

Does anyone know of a Garmin app/widget for the Vivoactive 6 that can endlessly alternate between different timer intervals throughout the entire day?

What I specifically want is:

• a 45 minute timer
• vibration at the end
• automatically switches to a different 15 minute timer by itself
• vibration at the end
• automatically switches back to the 45 minute timer
• keeps alternating between those two intervals forever until I manually stop it

So I do NOT want to manually restart or interact with the timer every cycle. I want it to continue automatically and only vibrate at the transitions.

Ideally it:

• runs quietly in the background
• works continuously all day
• doesn’t constantly keep the timer screen open
• is simple/lightweight

I’m using it for pacing/energy management rather than workouts or HIIT.

I already searched the Connect IQ store, but there’s so much there that I’m struggling to figure out what actually supports this.

Any recommendations?

I have MDD Snake on to sequence some stuff. But it keeps clogging/changing even though I have it turned off right now. It says "Change in MDD___Snake" in the edit history.

This makes it impossible to cmd-z and get revert stuff. Anyone got a clue how to work around this?