Method
Name: ________________________________
Objective
• Assess your progress with your relaxation efforts
• Assess your progress with your ability to concentrate
• Recreate the sensory experience of encountering a particularly foul taste and/or smell.
Preparation
You will need some privacy to complete this assignment. First begin by relaxing your body and quieting your
mind through the relaxation techniques we have learned in class. Take as much time as you need. Recall a
experience you have had with a foul taste and/or smell.
Recollection Record
For this exercise, you (obviously) will not be asked to practice with the real sensation first. This exercise will
be enacted purely based on your memory, and therefore requires some very careful, concentrated recall work.
Your responses to the prompts below MUST be almost ridiculously specific. Use metaphors and similes to
accurately conjure up the sensation. Be specific about how the sensation physically affects you.
Explain the sensation as specifically as possible. Is it a smell, a taste, or both? Discuss the “journey”
of the sensation (How did it start? What did it taste/smell like at first? How did it change?)
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The Exercise
Now, clear your mind. Spend at least 10 minutes relaxing in a chair—as you have been taught. Recreate the
experience of the sharp pain. You are not doing this exercise in order to learn to pantomime. Work on
reliving each of the specific sensations you recorded above. Do not move on to the next step until you fully
recreate each sensation fully and vividly and specifically.
You will be completing this exercise in class, and will be expected to have worked on this significantly at
home. You will be guided through each step, and you will be asked to recreate and describe each sensation.
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3) What specific goals do you have for yourself as you continue to work?
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PREPARATION 5 4 3 2 1
RELAXATION 5 4 3 2 1
CONCENTRATION 5 4 3 2 1
DETAIL OF WORK 5 4 3 2 1
ABILITY TO SUSTAIN 5 4 3 2 1
SELF-EVALUATION 5 4 3 2 1