De-Stressing Tips Needed
Discussion
I need some PH wisdom on how to de-stress properly. I usually take the infamous mantra of 'keep calm and carry on', but I am still finding myself wound up most of the time. (i.e. arguing with internet morons and letting it get to me 
, impatience with idiots in general, massive knots in my neck all the time etc) I have been told by my doc that I don't breathe properly due to stress and it is starting to cause me health issues as well.
So I have started Thai Chi, and also looking at meditation classes and I try and do the usual like watch movies and read but I can't seem to concentrate long for that. I don't really watch TV and I guess my only relaxing thing I do is surfing the net but that isn't destressing at all. A little part of me wants to start smoking again too? I shouldn't should I?
So help, what do you do to de-stress?
, impatience with idiots in general, massive knots in my neck all the time etc) I have been told by my doc that I don't breathe properly due to stress and it is starting to cause me health issues as well. So I have started Thai Chi, and also looking at meditation classes and I try and do the usual like watch movies and read but I can't seem to concentrate long for that. I don't really watch TV and I guess my only relaxing thing I do is surfing the net but that isn't destressing at all. A little part of me wants to start smoking again too? I shouldn't should I?
So help, what do you do to de-stress?
cazzer said:
Just realise yer life would be no worse if most of the rest of the UK died tomorrow.
Be a mysanthrope. Keeps me sane.
And fags are good
I don't think mysanthropeness is the answer, I quite like most people really. And even if I didn't I still need to destress from them. Be a mysanthrope. Keeps me sane.
And fags are good
So will go with the fags
thanks. Mushroom hunting.
(Or 'hunting' in general I suspect.)
I find getting out into the woods, with no information to process - other than that which is immediately available to your senses - to be the perfect antidote to modern, stressy life.
I can lose myself for hours out there (and hopefully return with something tasty to eat).
(Or 'hunting' in general I suspect.)
I find getting out into the woods, with no information to process - other than that which is immediately available to your senses - to be the perfect antidote to modern, stressy life.
I can lose myself for hours out there (and hopefully return with something tasty to eat).
I find walking the dog, on my own, no wife, no kids, no phone, up the forest or somewhere nice really de-stresses me. I think you should be able to rent a dog if you don't have one!
If I am wound so tight I can't get to sleep I find listening to a dull podcast on my Ipod quietly sends me right off into a deep and dreamless sleep.
Coast and Country or Excess Baggage work very well for this purpose, and I wake with a strange knolwedge of canals in Hungary, or something like that.
If I am wound so tight I can't get to sleep I find listening to a dull podcast on my Ipod quietly sends me right off into a deep and dreamless sleep.
Coast and Country or Excess Baggage work very well for this purpose, and I wake with a strange knolwedge of canals in Hungary, or something like that.
Find something to do that absorbs 100% of your concentration. For me its sailing and riding motorbikes; I absolutely cannot think about anything else other than those things when I'm doing them.
I also find cycling to and from work gives me a great opportunity to order my thoughts into/out of work mode at the beginning & end of the day
I also find cycling to and from work gives me a great opportunity to order my thoughts into/out of work mode at the beginning & end of the day
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