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Engaging activity to switch off?

seekeraftertruth

Hello, 

I don't have any activity or hobby that helps me turn my brain off. My hobbies are reading and playing video games but I tend to find games quite tense, so although I play them, I don't feel relaxed during or afterwards, even though I tend to play adventure games or RPGs (so, it's not fast or shooty games that I play).

I think I would find detail work quite relaxing. I tried drawing a map like this guy: https://youtu.be/63DZ7nLpSDE

but it wasn't very relaxing. I think maybe looking at a map like that really close up might be quite relaxing, like having my face really close to it so it fills my vision and I can see detail or trace pathways through the city.

I once got a new board game and spent an hour sorting all the different components into small plastic bags very relaxing (I didn't realise whilst doing it, because I was so engaged in it, it was only when I sat back at the end when I noticed how relaxed I was, it literally felt like I'd just spent the entire day at a spa).

I'm looking for an activity I can do to make me feel like that. I think it will be something I can do at the kitchen table and without a screen (I want to switch off so I'd be happy if it was done on paper). 

Does anyone have any suggestions for things I can do, or what you do? Happy to take suggestions from psychologists too, if there's something obvious I can try. 

Thanks. 

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  • Craft can be absorbing. I did pottery for years a few times a week. I went to a studio at an FE college, but there's some clay you can work at home, or other crafts, like whittling, or sewing. I need someone around though to be able to settle to it, I can't do it alone.

    I need physical exercise everyday, best early in the morning. I totally, totally switch off if that's fell running. Not as hard as it looks, but you do need hills nearby.

    And cooking! You get to eat better food, people appreciate it, we have to cook anyway so make a hobby of it! I cook from scratch lunch and dinner everyday.

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  • Craft can be absorbing. I did pottery for years a few times a week. I went to a studio at an FE college, but there's some clay you can work at home, or other crafts, like whittling, or sewing. I need someone around though to be able to settle to it, I can't do it alone.

    I need physical exercise everyday, best early in the morning. I totally, totally switch off if that's fell running. Not as hard as it looks, but you do need hills nearby.

    And cooking! You get to eat better food, people appreciate it, we have to cook anyway so make a hobby of it! I cook from scratch lunch and dinner everyday.

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