How do you deal with stress?

[Sigmund]

Good evening.

I'm pretty sure we all have times we stress.

I's rather dig a ditch with a plastic spoon than be stressed out. Really. Stress can kill.

I like to streeetchhhh out. I stretch out every day but when I'm especially stressed I stretch out big time.

It helps me focus. Stretching my muscles, push and hold the stretch, keeps me in the here and now.

How do you deal with stress?

Thank you!

 

[Tery]

Music. I put on a favorite album -- usually 2112 -- and crank it.

 

[HollyGolightly]

Stretching is a great idea. Music is always good. I have to exercise it out too. I have to force myself to go sometimes but I always feel better after a good workout. A bubble bath and a beer

Spoiler

and my panic pills

help too. We have a young adult daughter and 2 teenagers. The amount of stress in my life greatly exceeds my ability to deal with it. I don't know how the Ogre lives with me.

 

[Sigmund]

Music. I put on a favorite album -- usually 2112 -- and crank it.

Yay, Music! Me, too.

Music works for me two-fold.

When I'm stressed (and feeling sad/down) I put on some music and dance sing and get ALL happy.

BUT, sometimes, when I'm stressed and feeling sad and cruddy...I put on some music and ... cry. I listen to my music and cry. And wail. It helps me purge the poison in my mind and gut.

Peace.

 

[Doc Creed]

Music, as everyone said. Different types. I love Shostakovich.
Walking on treadmill.
Cooking really relaxes me, too.

 

[morgan]

How do you deal with stress?

Not very well.

 

[Spideyman]

Listening to and repeating the Gayatri Mantra.

 

[TrueGeneration]

Not very well.

*hugs*

I'm with morgan on this. Stress really gets to me and that's because I stress over the TINIEST things. These last two months have been the worst and I've never felt anxiety like this before.

I think what helps is music. Taking deep breaths. For those interested, there's this app called Calm, and it has meditation programs and soothing scenery music like raindrops, the ocean, etc and I actually find that that helps, too!

Believe it or not, dancing calms me down, too. But I agree with Siggy and Holly that stretching is good--any kind of relaxing movement does help!

 

[Arkay Lynchpin]

I dress like a maitre d' and try to elicit the cry of “boot” from my alleged clientele when I stab a Shun® Reserve 8” Chef’s knife in their brain…

 

[Sigmund]

I dress like a maitre d' and try to elicit the cry of “boot” from my alleged clientele when I stab a Shun® Reserve 8” Chef’s knife in their brain…

I see what you did there.

"Eeeeeeeeeee"

(Very nice to see you on the board.)

Peace.

 

[danie]

Run, run, run.

 

[Doc Creed]

Run, run, run.

 

[Blake]

I try to see things in perspective.

 

[Pucker]

Almost everything is funny ... once you learn how to look at it.

So I laugh.

 

[TheRedQueen]

Well, I used to smoke. Now I read. It really, really helps to get lost in Hogsmeade, or the Territories, or Narnia, or Allagaesia. Time goes by faster, so I don't miss my husband so badly. And mundane things like the dishes don't bother me when I know the next chapter is waiting. Plus my son's nap times mean at least thirty minutes of uninterrupted reading!

 

[Lepplady]

Good evening.

I'm pretty sure we all have times we stress.

I's rather dig a ditch with a plastic spoon than be stressed out. Really. Stress can kill.

I like to streeetchhhh out. I stretch out every day but when I'm especially stressed I stretch out big time.

It helps me focus. Stretching my muscles, push and hold the stretch, keeps me in the here and now.

How do you deal with stress?

Thank you!

I journal. Both on the computer or in a notebook I carry with me. It's extremely cathartic to write out whatever's bugging me. That way, it's on paper instead of chasing itself around inside my head. Dust off my hands and carry on.
I also paint. It turns the negativity into a positive. Put simply, it's fun. So, for me, it's a two-part process. Out with the bad, in with the good.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Sleep.

 

[Kurben]

Not very good at handling it. Reading works if it is a good one. To sleep, per chance to dream if i manage which is too rare really. Which increases the stress (my inability to sleep i mean)

 

[Kurben]

But music is a good healer

 

[arista]

I exercise my right to cry and then I walk a long long way.