This content was created by Dr. Calm. This content was uploaded by Dr. Calm. This is a YouTube video titled "The Litmus Test for Restlessness" created on January 11, 2023. It features Dr. Calm leading an interactive session with multiple participants, discussing and demonstrating a method to test for restlessness by counting backwards from 100 to 1 without distraction.
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We talked just about restlessness. Right. How many people are restless in this room? Let's say are you restless sometimes. Are you restless now or sometimes not right now. Oh, thank you. Wow, that's a great. Sometimes you. Sharon, right now you're focused. You're not restless right now, Jerry. You are restless right now.
Yes.
Oh, okay. He's the only one who is telling the truth. You liars. I'm going to prove you that you are restless right now. You want me to prove it? Okay, so what I did was more than a decade ago, people, I figured out, you know, how people can identify if they are restless or calm. So I created this litmus test for restlessness. So we are going to do it now. Okay. Everyone in the room as well as who are watching me from their home online. So let us take a moment to do this. Okay. Sit down. And if you can sit down, it's okay. You can stand and do it or lie down. Whatever position you are in. That's fine with me. Close your eyes and this is what you're going to do. Start from hundred. I'm going to give you one minute, maybe one and a half minute. Start from hundred and count back to one. In that process, you should not miss even one number. You should exactly know hundred 99, 98, 97, 96, 95. And then sometimes our mind wanders somewhere. You start thinking about, oh my God, I'm hungry, I want to eat something or I have something errand to run in a couple of hours from now, whatever it is comes to your mind. So none of those things should come to your mind. Just the numbers. Let's start now. Count down from 100 to 1. Okay. So yeah. So tell me your experience. Okay.
Well, I'm very visual.
Yeah.
So I let the numbers roll.
Yeah.
And I stayed with every number as it came up.
Very good. What about you?
I did as well kind of visualizing so that I could stay focused on. I got down to 19, but I counted kind of slowly. I was distracted by some voices out side of the room.
Yeah.
Thinking who is talking right now? But other than that I was pretty focused on the noise.
Alrighty. Good.
Yeah, I didn't really visualize it but I did get down to zero. And I counted down pretty quick. I think tried to isolate the noise. There wasn't a lot of background noise which helped. Loud place obviously probably would have been more difficult for me to focus.
So while you are doing this, you didn't think about anything else? Nothing else?
I wouldn't say I probably had A thought that went somewhere in the back of my mind about what you would say at the end.
Yeah.
How you would process something was back there.
Yeah. What about you?
I mean, I had a couple of thoughts that popped in and then tried to go right back to counting when I realized.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you? Anything at all.
I really took it seriously.
Yeah.
I was really trying to focus on spinning on my numbers.
Good, good. So when you do this, this test for restlessness, you can use it anytime to check within yourself, how am I feeling? Am I able to focus? Or my focus is wandering from one thing to another. Most commonly, people have trouble going all the way from hundred to one because their mind goes somewhere else. And then we had to bring it back again, go somewhere else, bring it back again, and depends on the state of mind that you are in right now. Okay. So a lot of times when I do this in conferences, the response is mixed. Some people are like, yeah, I'm able to count. Some people are like, I was thinking about what happened yesterday or what should I cook tomorrow? So so many other things. But there's a test that you could use anytime, the litmus test for restless.
