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What activities make you feel good about yourself

Oakling

Like many, I often struggle to manage my mental health, self-esteem and negative thoughts towards myself. However, I do have a few activities that I enjoy that just help to reframe things and make me feel positive about myself.

What activities do you enjoy that have a positive effect on your outlook?

I just started exercise again after a 3 month break and it feels wonderful. I also picked up woodworking again after a similar break and have just completed making a new workbench. It’s not brilliant, but it’s mine and I’m proud of it.

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  • making playlists from my music library (current list is  called "Get up offa that thing" all funk and R&B for work out gym music)

    Being with wild animals or animals that are free from bondage.

    walking in a forest or the jungle.

    sitting watching water moving: ocean, river, bath water..

    watching spangled shiny surfaces in the sun, tilting my head this and that way.

    dancing in place. swaying from one to another foot. knitting hands together and apart.

    tasting minerals.

    rubbing feathers and other soft things along my skin. especially my lips, face, and inner arms

    listening to wind in ironwood trees.

    writing anything in prose or expository 1st person. 

    hearing about the joys of others

    learning languages.

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  • making playlists from my music library (current list is  called "Get up offa that thing" all funk and R&B for work out gym music)

    Being with wild animals or animals that are free from bondage.

    walking in a forest or the jungle.

    sitting watching water moving: ocean, river, bath water..

    watching spangled shiny surfaces in the sun, tilting my head this and that way.

    dancing in place. swaying from one to another foot. knitting hands together and apart.

    tasting minerals.

    rubbing feathers and other soft things along my skin. especially my lips, face, and inner arms

    listening to wind in ironwood trees.

    writing anything in prose or expository 1st person. 

    hearing about the joys of others

    learning languages.

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