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What is your "go to" stress reliever?

deteriminedAMY
deteriminedAMY Posts: 22 Member
edited November 2024 in Chit-Chat
As I am still recovering from surgery, it's hard for me to do much of anything right now but I will get on the treadmill and put some music on and walk for a good 30 minutes. This helps
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  • Tigg_er
    Tigg_er Posts: 22,001 Member
    Playing My Guitar :)
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  • Tigg_er
    Tigg_er Posts: 22,001 Member
    Wish I knew How !
  • Tigg_er
    Tigg_er Posts: 22,001 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    I'll get a strike for saying.......................

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  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    Exercise
    Music (I love showtunes and New Country and I have every Mary Chapin Carpenter CD save one)
    Writing
    One of the feral cats I feed probably didn't start out that way. Over the last four years, he's become a loving and lovable little guy. (But only around me. If anyone else comes into view, he will bolt.) Cuddling him is a big help.
  • Stockholm_Andy
    Stockholm_Andy Posts: 803 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    I'll get a strike for saying.......................

    Exactly my first thought when I read the title of the thread :D

  • deteriminedAMY
    deteriminedAMY Posts: 22 Member
    Hey, it's called "chit-chat"! So..... There are no strikes here!!!
  • Derf_Smeggle
    Derf_Smeggle Posts: 610 Member
    Activities: Cycling and Aikido

    Barring those: Cherry Garcia >:)o:)
  • Sivadee00
    Sivadee00 Posts: 428 Member
    Music or going on a walk.
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  • fabcharley
    fabcharley Posts: 57 Member
    Jogwalking, landscape photography, self-compassion meditation
  • BoosDimples
    BoosDimples Posts: 2,826 Member
    A good book, walking, swim, computer games, bubble bath or long shower. Other things, also. :blush:
  • MrStabbems
    MrStabbems Posts: 3,108 Member
    fencing and blacksmithing.
  • SoulRadiation
    SoulRadiation Posts: 1,060 Member
    Walking in a forest and listening to music :)

    For way too many years it was eating a bunch of garbage and drinking beer...which I now try to walk off in a forest lol...
  • Dory_42
    Dory_42 Posts: 3,792 Member
    Choking my friends (I do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) I also love stabbing my friends, but I had to choose between fencing and Jiu Jitsu due to classes clashing...
  • iamunicoon
    iamunicoon Posts: 839 Member
    Getting some quiet alone time. Just me and some music.
  • MrStabbems
    MrStabbems Posts: 3,108 Member
    BowlingForHollars wrote: »
    MrStabbems wrote: »
    fencing and blacksmithing.

    At the same time?

    Yes, makes for a floppy show.
  • MidModJenn
    MidModJenn Posts: 216 Member
    I started learning to play the drums last summer... when I'm completely stressed, I just grab my sticks and pound away to some Nirvana or AC/DC. :)
  • kristikitter
    kristikitter Posts: 602 Member
    Singing in my car!!! Especially showtunes :3

    Walking is great too.
  • SoulRadiation
    SoulRadiation Posts: 1,060 Member
    CaptainBoing wrote: »
    Choking my friends (I do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) I also love stabbing my friends, but I had to choose between fencing and Jiu Jitsu due to classes clashing...

    That's awesome! I recently got back into bjj after a long hiatus and love it...it is quite stress relieving because you're very in the moment.

    I took fencing back in college as a gym and loved that as well. At some point I want to take up kendo or iaido and play with swords/pretend I'm a Jedi again.
  • SEAHORSES4EVER
    SEAHORSES4EVER Posts: 1,553 Member
    Walking, reading, writing, funny videos and sometimes drawing because my drawings are beyond *kitten* and make me laugh.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    I don't get stress. At least, not enough to recognize as such. Consequently, I have no stress-relief techniques.
  • deteriminedAMY
    deteriminedAMY Posts: 22 Member
    It's interesting to see what everyone's vice is! I have a very stressful job which has me at times working very long hours doing paperwork. My goal is looking for new ways to deal with stress as I used to grab chocolate since I'm single at the moment.
  • MrStabbems
    MrStabbems Posts: 3,108 Member
    art but I haven't draweded for 1year plus.
  • EternalTruth
    EternalTruth Posts: 519 Member
    Hiking in the woods
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    exercise
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