What do you do to Relax?

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Chai tea for me

Sounds good to me. Perhaps time for a pot.

Thanks for the responses, all. I continue to welcome them.
Here is a secondary and more specific focus for this thread:

What calms you down from episodes of severe stress and anxiety, or meltdowns???

In addition to Nature and Music (which are my interests, and would obviously help calm me down), I often seek out violent or destructive means. When I lived in an apartment, one of the community dumpsters was in the parking lot straightaway from my front door. To express extreme emotions such as these, I would find a scrap piece of glass or something else breakable and throw it as hard as I could into the dumpster. No one hurt. No property damaged. But I had broken something through physical exertion. It always felt tremendously good.

Sometimes I got creative. I would take the breakable object, get out a sharpie marker, and then write on the object whatever was causing me the negative feelings... and then I'd smash the hell out of the thing.

These violent actions left me feeling calm, relieved and in control. Indeed, Relaxed. I'm still not sure if this was an entirely good thing to do. I probably freaked out my neighbors quite a bit.

Can anyone relate to this stuff? Perhaps you have your own examples to share?

Last edited by Acacia on 28 Jan 2009, 12:18 am, edited 1 time in total.

on occasions when i've been fuming i've ended up writing a song. it's times like that when the best stuff comes out. sometimes i go for a random drive

Nature has a very calming and soothing effect on me.

When I don't have access to nature, music and books are the perfect escape.

Only thing then is time... Time to sit and think about the frustration without anyone bothering me or telling me off for being frustrated.

To relax I read about my main obsession (whatever that happens to be at the time), use my iPhone, MacBook etc., flap my hands and listen to music.

i cant imagine this would be very good for AS

DVDs, internet or just being on my own help me to relax.

when I need to relax I usually play some nice soft music, lie back on my seat/bed/floor depending on where I am, and just have a long daydream about people I fancy lol

I can't imagine it being very good at all...
But I still think that it's people's own personal choice.