Stress Management

[Left Coast]

What methods have you found most effective for dealing with stress in your life?

For me, I've found meditation, exercise, and getting sunlight/exposure to nature to be very helpful in calming my mind and relieving the stresses of life.

How about you?

 

[ChristineM]

Walking in the forest or alongside the river. Going out on a mushroom hunt, it doesn't matter if they are out of season, it's just a nice place to be.

Stroking my cats and listening to them purr.

Cooking helps too.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

What methods have you found most effective for dealing with stress in your life?

For me, I've found meditation, exercise, and getting sunlight/exposure to nature to be very helpful in calming my mind and relieving the stresses of life.

How about you?

Exercise (particularly relatively high intensity) and music, which I use somewhat in replacement of meditation (which I have done at various times through my life).

 

[RestlessSoul]

What methods have you found most effective for dealing with stress in your life?

For me, I've found meditation, exercise, and getting sunlight/exposure to nature to be very helpful in calming my mind and relieving the stresses of life.

How about you?

All the things you mention, I have found to be effective. The more so, when combined with faith.

Without faith, I am whistling in the dark. But faith without works is dead. Nothing will help us take our minds off our own problems, so much as reaching out to someone else who may also be suffering.

 

[Left Coast]

Walking in the forest or alongside the river. Going out on a mushroom hunt, it doesn't matter if they are out of season, it's just a nice place to be.

Stroking my cats and listening to them purr.

Cooking helps too.

I forgot about animals! I love a good cuddle with a cat or dog. Though i don't live with any currently.

 

[Debater Slayer]

Meditation, music, gaming, and horror movies.

 

[Vee]

How about you?

Eat good quality food, sleep enough, exercise, and also very important - stay away from toxic people.

 

[Quintessence]

To add a new one - divination. A fantastic self-reflection tool to get you to think critically about a situation from a different perspective, like talking to a friend (but without the risk of judgement).

 

[Left Coast]

Meditation, music, gaming, and horror movies.

Horror movies reduce your stress?

 

[Twilight Hue]

By facing it directly instead of thinking it shouldn't be there or it can be eradicated when it's an integral aspect as a human being.

For me, I want the best quality of stress. The best stress I ever had.

 

[Aštra’el]

-By not allowing myself to feel regret
-Music
-Lifting
-Running
-Sex
-Climbing
-Hiking
-Gaming
-Drawing/ Painting
-Socializing

 

[Revoltingest]

Shed the causes.

 

[JustGeorge]

I try to drop any expectations. A lot of stress comes from desires that things will be this way or that. The less I expect, the less stressed I am.

If that didn't work, and I managed to get stressed, I crack rude jokes to an ear that will appreciate them. It takes my mind off of things, and feels good to see others laugh.

If I still feel lousy, I just remember everything is temporary.

 

[Altfish]

What methods have you found most effective for dealing with stress in your life?

Beer

 

[Quagmire]

Remind myself how little control I have over anything.

 

[Quagmire]

If I still feel lousy, I just remember everything is temporary.

Everything is temporary so everything is tolerable.

 

[RestlessSoul]

I try to drop any expectations. A lot of stress comes from desires that things will be this way or that. The less I expect, the less stressed I am.

If that didn't work, and I managed to get stressed, I crack rude jokes to an ear that will appreciate them. It takes my mind off of things, and feels good to see others laugh.

If I still feel lousy, I just remember everything is temporary.

Can’t beat a good arse joke