{"id":1338,"date":"2015-05-23T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2015-05-25T11:59:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T18:59:06","slug":"zone-in-zone-up-zone-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/23\/zone-in-zone-up-zone-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Zone In, Zone Up, Zone Out."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Postaday for May 23rd: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.wordpress.com\/dp_prompt\/the-zone\/\">The Zone<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Tell us about your favorite way to get lost in a simple activity \u2014 running, chopping vegetables, folding laundry, whatever. What\u2019s it like when you\u2019re in \u201cthe zone\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Music is the key to get me into something, kind of a way to drown out the background thoughts that keep me from getting busy. You know, all those urges and frustrations and over-analyzations. For example, I\u2019m listening to Pandora right now, which makes it easier ti ignore that \u201cover-analyzations\u201d isn\u2019t probably a real word.<\/p>\n<p>Cleaning the house, writing, doing paperwork, doing the filing, running, all of it requires music, most of the time. And Pandora is my drug of choice. I\u2019ve got a couple hundred different stations, most of which I don\u2019t listen to, since it\u2019s all about whimsy which is ephemeral. My latest have been stations based on The New Mastersounds (laid back studio-funk jazz) The Sound Defects (minimalist adult industrial hip hop) and Bitter:Sweet (electric lounge).<\/p>\n<p>I made up those \u201cgenres\u201d by the way.<\/p>\n<p>Of course is doesn\u2019t always work. Today\u2019s been kind of rough, getting into things. A couple of tiring days, my allergies kicking in something fierce, and a general lack of motivation. But when it does work: oh man, the zone. Its hard to describe being in the zone, especially to someone who\u2019s never been in it. And for those who have, they know what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>Better to describe what it feels like afterward. You come out of the zone and you feel so accomplished. Like you got something done, something meaningful, impactful. You\u2019ve been heads-down at a task for maybe hours, but you don\u2019t feel tired at all, you almost feel rejuvenated.<\/p>\n<p>Its all psychological, of course, and after a bit your body catches up and reminds you that you are, in fact, tired, pretty exhausted, actually. But if you\u2019ve timed it such that what follows is sleep: what a satisfying sleep.<\/p>\n<p>And music is the doorway tog et there. For me anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postaday for May 23rd: The Zone.\u00a0Tell us about your favorite way to get lost in a simple activity \u2014 running, chopping vegetables, folding laundry, whatever. What\u2019s it like when you\u2019re in \u201cthe zone\u201d? Music is the key to get me into something, kind of a way to drown out the background thoughts that keep me &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/23\/zone-in-zone-up-zone-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zone In, Zone Up, Zone Out.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postaday","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p24y52-lA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}