What do you do to calm down?

I also find reading posts on here calming, or putting my focus onto something else that absorbs me, like reading a book or playing a gentle computer game such as sims or a word or card game. On the bus to work and back I read the news or play a game on my phone to distract me from the people around me, although the other day I couldn't cope even doing that as the bus was too crowded, so I had to get off at a stop halfway home and get on the next bus behind it which was almost empty. Thankfully that doesn't happen too often as it would get quite expensive as I had to buy another ticket!

Good evening to all.
Because there was a lot of photography upon this page, I thought that I might have a go at sending one of my own pictures, of a Tall Ship sailing along the River Thames. This post here, is in case the picture which I attempted to post ever actually turns up here one day (!)... it also might show up more than once, so this is a kind of warning, until I can see it on my own device (to delete multiple posts of it), I do apologise much in advance...

On topic: I myself also use going outdoors, nature, and parks for relaxation, and especially if I can walk along a lake, river, or best of all, the Ocean -やった!!

Listening tot classical and (especially choral) music.

Me too.  I got dragged along by my Dad as a child and now love going on a steam train.  My youngest has not inherited my love of this though.  I’m even enough of a buff to, when spotting a new style train on the opposite platform I grabbed my camera!

Anything mechanical for me, it does a job,it needs to be understood to function correctly, it needs looking after,and if is found suffering by me and left for the scrap I will rescue it, lovingly take it apart, fix any problems and lovingly put it back together quite often with improvements to the original, paint it and polish the steel,and proudly display it with all the other semi retired items.

Each tool could tell a story, From being thought of designed by draughtsmen,fabricated by skilled engineers who then send it for testing, it proves it’s abilities and is thought of as fit for the job, expensive but quite right as think of all the people involved to produce it?

whole families depending on its success, putting food on the table for everyone involved.being there when nothing else would do,giving long service and falling by the wayside once a newer model comes along.

I also enjoy steam and went to the great Dorset steam fair two years running,Four days of bliss,apart from the massive crowds that is.

Wow, spotter, that is cool! Love anything to do with steam .... trains, old beam engines, you name it. I love the machines but also the smell of them is wonderful

Just thought I'd put this on as an example of one of my steam railway photographs.  Hope someone finds it interesting!

I do take other things apart from Steam Locomotives in case you were wondering!

I have a few things that I find very soothing

I play the recorder rather badly, it can be concealed In a pocket (well my sopranino recorder can) and i can annoy folk to my hearts content by playing a few tunes.

I also love bubbles. The way they float on air. Their myriad colours. I  reently brought a gianr bubble sword which really is Great.

I  also take a lot of photos and spend a lot of time messing about with them afterwards.

But what I especially like is being in the wide expanse of the countryside - the feel of fresh air in my lungs, the wind in my hair, the sound of a stream or a waterfall, the sound of a steam train as it approaches through an amphitheatre of hills, the sight of a picturesque ruined castle or abbey, a rugged landscape in the early morning must ... these are things that life is all about to me. 

I find photography of landscapes and woodlands relaxing.   So when agitated I look at my photo collection and the memories of my trips helps me relax.