I don't know if this is usual but when ever i feel unrelaxed or a little stressed or something. Something that ALWAYS helps is too rearrange the books. If i move that bumch from there i get a better room for these there and these are fairly small so can go behinf the others. I know they are there anyways and so on. Thinking about it is harnful, making you lose sleep like a bad consciemce or something but when you done it you feel great. Rewlaxed and sleep is as easy as pie. Strange, isn't it? Do you have similar symphtoms? Or am i alone in this particular madness?
Book sorting as a nerve tonic
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Is this Sweden Speak?Yes, I like to rearrange.
I've learned that trick not so long ago. I don't do rearranging of books per se but I try and do something that involves logic, like crosswords or sudoku when I'm feeling down or stressed. That way the negative thoughts I'm having and which are stressing me are just sort of floating and I don't "act" upon them psychologically, I mean that I don't ruminate and take those passing negative thoughts at face value and give them more importance than that and after a little while these thoughts just pass and my mood lifts.
...these "rituals" simply allow the mind to focus on something other than the stressor(s).....it's great distraction therapy...
Simple tasks can work wonders. It just so happened that I had cause to rearrange my bookshelves recently. I'd been sitting at the computer, staring at a blank screen, worrying about all kinds of things (Christmas shopping and the budget for it, my nephew who's been having a tough time lately, general despair about the way society's going and other current affairs, overarching 'crisis' stuff like what the hell am I doing with my life and what else I might do to actually achieve something before I shuffle off, etc), when I just thought 'Sod it' and set about a task I'd been putting off instead. I didn't feel like doing it, and it took some effort to get fairly started (there's always that 'bored now' feeling that starts 30 seconds to 2 minutes in, but it's really just the anxiety or depression wanting you to focus on it/your misery again).
About an hour later, the shelves were sorted, a lot of the bad stuff was gone again (not far, but far enough), and I'd had an idea for a story. In fact, the main character was still yammering away in my head as I sat back down and started to type.
About an hour later, the shelves were sorted, a lot of the bad stuff was gone again (not far, but far enough), and I'd had an idea for a story. In fact, the main character was still yammering away in my head as I sat back down and started to type.
I like to put on a chanting meditation CD and then clean- rearrange the items in the hutch, book shelf( books that were alphabetical, now are chronological). If extreme stress, I'll redo the pantry canned goods.
Yep, Kurben, that really helps. Or I'll mop the floors (I hate the task, but it always calms me down & gets my brain working). My daughter (who has some of the same anxiety/depression issues I have) bakes. When she comes home & immediately gets out the stuff to make cookies, I know it's time to talk (when she's done baking).
Talk and cookies are an unbeatable combination.
I do it all the time (rearrange books, that is).
Nice thread Kurben
I like to meditate to relax
I like to meditate to relax
I like to take "nerve tonic" before I go anywhere on a "flying machine" lol. I love the way you express yourself.
Depends on the kind of stress, but I tend to clean. I'm not OCD, but cleaning kills several birds with one stone: it focuses me, allows me the option of either solving a problem or Scarlett O'Hara-ing it, and makes things look nice. I don't rearrange unless I'm bored.
I don't rearrange books... I do difficult knitting and attentively count thread loops.
I have too many books at the moment, but not the gumption to do something about it. I find sorting my e-reader much easier on my back and feet.
hi, very relaxing for me also reorder books, comics and various objects in the house, but I relax with really good music cuffia..mi makes dream and fall nerves