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Just thinking, that other thread got me going what are ways you've used to slow yourself down enough that your health begins to revive, your stress climbs back down to manageable levels and you can live instead of racing the treadmill of life?
I like the following:
Manage the phone either with a machine or by call display to see who is calling and choosing not to pick up sometimes.
Cancel the newspaper or quit reading it daily. Catch up once a week.
Watch funny or uplifting stuff on TV.
Nix the news on TV. You can get it online and when you absorb it by reading it, it goes in slow enough that you can process it rather than being beaten up by visual images coming so fast you aren't able to process and your body just reacts with stress.
Do a whole bedtime bath routine where you spend an hour or so winding down.
Use your VCR to tape stuff so you can watch it when you are ready for it, not when it's on. (speed thru commercials too!)
Late night shows are best watched the next day so as not to interfere with sleep.
Cultivate good friends who give and take. Ditch the ones who just take and don't understand give.
Cultivate people who manage stress well, who allow joy in their lives, who aren't lurching from crisis to crisis (if you like that it comes on TV in the daily soaps which is much more manageable than a friend who is a permanent soap opera).
People do make choices in life and while bad stuff happens and some people struggle with more, people who continually moan will drag you down eventually, and it's their choice to moan all the time but you don't have to choose to spend time with them.
The right people find bright stuff in amongst the ashes, they will allow laughter, and will look up once in a while and give thanks. The wrong people have a why me attitude and just want an audience to vent to without having to make serious changes. KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.
In line with that theme, de junk your calendar still further by removing a lot of musts and should do's. Take one volunteer effort and do it well rather than five. Have the kids in ONE sport and concentrate on doing it well rather than 3 sports and 2 music lessons. Do a once a week piano lesson with lots of practice in between, rather than violin AND piano.
What are some ways you like to de stress your life with?
I like the following:
Manage the phone either with a machine or by call display to see who is calling and choosing not to pick up sometimes.
Cancel the newspaper or quit reading it daily. Catch up once a week.
Watch funny or uplifting stuff on TV.
Nix the news on TV. You can get it online and when you absorb it by reading it, it goes in slow enough that you can process it rather than being beaten up by visual images coming so fast you aren't able to process and your body just reacts with stress.
Do a whole bedtime bath routine where you spend an hour or so winding down.
Use your VCR to tape stuff so you can watch it when you are ready for it, not when it's on. (speed thru commercials too!)
Late night shows are best watched the next day so as not to interfere with sleep.
Cultivate good friends who give and take. Ditch the ones who just take and don't understand give.
Cultivate people who manage stress well, who allow joy in their lives, who aren't lurching from crisis to crisis (if you like that it comes on TV in the daily soaps which is much more manageable than a friend who is a permanent soap opera).
People do make choices in life and while bad stuff happens and some people struggle with more, people who continually moan will drag you down eventually, and it's their choice to moan all the time but you don't have to choose to spend time with them.
The right people find bright stuff in amongst the ashes, they will allow laughter, and will look up once in a while and give thanks. The wrong people have a why me attitude and just want an audience to vent to without having to make serious changes. KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.
In line with that theme, de junk your calendar still further by removing a lot of musts and should do's. Take one volunteer effort and do it well rather than five. Have the kids in ONE sport and concentrate on doing it well rather than 3 sports and 2 music lessons. Do a once a week piano lesson with lots of practice in between, rather than violin AND piano.
What are some ways you like to de stress your life with?
