For pretty much all of my life, I’ve been a little stress ball underneath the calm exterior. I learned it early on then added a lot of my own irrational and rational anxieties to the mix as the years have gone by. As a kid and into my early adulthood painting and being a little bit crafty has helped calm these nerves. However, living in the current apartment I live in, I don’t have the space for doing as much art as I’m used to, so I need some alternatives, hence the reason for this ‘how to’.
The second one on the list of suggestions is actually the one I have the hardest doing. Yup, that would be breathing. I find that I will be working, sitting on the couch, thinking or what not, and I’ve completely forgotten to breath and then I have to gasp. It gets worse as the stress increases. Just doing breathing exercises while reading the ‘how to’ actually helped a lot, so I will make a more conscious effort to breathe.
Thinking of something funny has definitely helped in the past too. For example, I’ve found remembering the incidents where the angry German taxi driver didn’t want me to marry his daughter; the random journey to the unknown location of a hammam in the mountains of Tunisia; and the times I would tell old Chinese ladies at the market that I was Chinese (I’m as blonde and blue-eyed as they come) particularly stress relieving.
The rest of the suggestions are pretty good, except napping. I am not a good nap taker, unless it is on a bus, then, for some reason I can fall asleep in seconds for a few minutes and feel revived, but if I lay on a bed or couch, everyone watch out, the bear has awoken and will not be happy again until the following day.
GRADE: A-
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