What soothing activities do you do?

I find that listening to certain music will relax me. I also do extensive amounts of meditation to keep me from feeling scattered.

I read old books and smoke a hookah.

Hear relaxing music and just daydream while doing homework.

I read, sketch or write among nature and consume alcohol to keep calm. These complex strategies work well, especially while participating in both at once.

Listening to and playing music for sure, as well as meditation. Putting things in perspective "it's not so bad because, x", sort of reasoning it out, often helps me too.

nevermore said:

Listening to and playing music for sure, as well as meditation. Putting things in perspective "it's not so bad because, x", sort of reasoning it out, often helps me too.

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Wow, I was about to say just that, completely fucking riveting, creating little mind structures and games tend to dissipate my anxiety.

Walking, gardening, candle-making. Listening to my "no words" station on Pandora. (Shpongle, Zoe Keating, etc.)

I've been trying to do some breathing exercises to cope with email phobia. With limited success.

It was pretty hot here tonight so I needed to bring the fan into my room and I remembered how lying in the summer dark with the whirring of a cool fan nearby is probably the most relaxing thing in the world.

Drawing, gardening, crafts, cutting up vegetables, stuff like that usually helps me back-burner (at least temporarily) the mental calisthenics that sometimes plague my head like an obnoxious exercise video on a loop. Ugh!

Walking and driving, with music in the background.

i often sleep. when i'm angry, i sleep. when i'm upset, i sleep. when i'm tired, i sleep. when i'm sick, i sleep.

i usually let my subconciousness and internal chemical workings re-adjust itself and wake up refreshed.

this thing we do called 'sleep' has magical properties!

Doesn't always do the trick, but hey.. it is what it is...

*ah-choo*

Listen to music of any sort

Look at new astronomy pictures/discoveries, lol

Browse art on DeviantArt

Go hiking or sightseeing in my area, I live in the mountains.

plotting revenge...

gathering wild herbs...

cooking for other people...

adapting outside annoyances into games and dealing with them in a completely constructive and legal manner.

getting something pierced

setting my personal creative projects on fire.

I look at my poster of a galaxy from my bed because of the absence of real stars in a big city.

Two examples:

3:30 in the afternoon on a Sunday during the spring, lying on a couch and falling asleep in front of a Red Sox game with a book on my chest.

Walking the length of the beach in the winter with not a single person there.

Drinking lots of water. Moderate exercise for 30 minutes per day. Breaking my junk food addiction and eating whole foods. Meditating and stretching for a half hour, then reading for an hour or two before bedtime.

Works pretty well.

I submerge myself in a feast of nostalgia - my favourite childhood shows, food, music...

I don't really know what I do, I've scrolled through the thread hoping to find a eureka moment but no.

Guess I just force myself to think about something else; ignore, oppress, move on.

Exercise binge, music and cooking