uncork at the desk where the trouble began. set the bottle to the left of whatever was being attended to. take one slow breath in through the nose, four counts; out, six. do not look at the bottle again. begin once more from the last sentence you remember, or from whatever word sits at the end of your hand. the tincture does its work in the room, not in the body.
ingredients
- one warm window
- the long count to twenty
- a sentence read three times slowly
- the smell of a closed drawer
- a single repeated word, silent
do not take in company, nor with a second screen lit; the tincture is jealous and will hold its breath.
if symptoms persist, try the slow kettle, the kitchen, or the small silence.