First the good news, I managed to beat the instructor's time in the rowing challenge by about 2 seconds.  The bad news was that the challenge ran out on Sunday and not today like I thought. So officially he is faster but I reckon I have some bragging rights.  Mind you I nearly fell off the machine at the end.  I reckon I am getting too old for this type of thing.

My mood seem to be improving despite some real knock backs yesterday.  I am hoping this new medication is really starting to take full effect now.  I am going to write this and then have a go at a mindfulness session.  I am nervous because I have been told it can make things worse before they make them better, but I really need to get a firm foundation in place before I try to move on.  If mindfulness is effective, as my very limited reading of the literature seems to suggest (links below), I would be foolish to not give it a good go.

I went singing again last night and really enjoyed it.  I guess I will have to start practicing a bit more at home.  Should be funny.  Might be safer to leave it for the car.  The trouble is without the words in front of me I might start "Collarding" as it has been called.  Collarding is the act of singing the wrong words to a vaguley correct tune.

Onward and hopefully upwards, lets hope for a stress free day.

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/Pages/improve-mental-wellbeing.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ccp/78/2/169/
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/emo/10/1/12/
http://pps.sagepub.com/content/6/6/537.short