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What is your go-to method for releasing stress and tension?

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Some I found elsewhere:

  • Exercising / Moving
  • Breathing Techniques
  • Info Dump
  • Journaling
  • Paying attention to senses in a quiet space (maybe a dark place or somewhere in nature.)
  • All stimming techniques.

Personally, I use jogging, Wim Hof Breathing and Hot Showers. Stims as well but sometimes they actually make me more anxious.

I would do screaming therapy because it feels natural at times, but it's impractical (neighbours or people nearby).

What is your go-to method for releasing stress and tension?

  • It depends on what's causing it but I suspect my answer would be removed for legal reasons!

  • I'd add:

    gardening, allotmenting to your list.

    In respect of releasing stress and tension my go to is a little more along the lines of moving the stress and tension into different configurations.  I say this because just relieving all tension can leave one a little like a jelly on a plate and perhaps somewhat unable to defend oneself and/or interact with the environment.  Exercising and movement satisfy this criteria somewhat and there are some really quite sophisticated systems to explore if one wishes to and has the inclination.

    Making the correlate with one's emotional state also - this however can be challenging as opening that "Pandora's box" has ramifications.

    Screaming?  Well, I learnt to yell really loud and had a lot of practice.  it can be cathartic - it can also get you really good at yelling...

    Laughter therapy - it helps :-) tho' it can be incongruous when things are so sh1t the only thing left is to do so!

  • Hello   :) 

    I have my quiet mornings, so I wake up early, make myself some brekkie and while I am drinking tea/coffee I do some bird watching, I also exercise every morning for 5-15 minutes, I journal once a week or when I am really stressed, I also paint every morning, go for a one-hour-walk in the afternoon/evening, and watch one episode of doctor who in the evening, basically I incorporate my stress relieving techniques in my routine. 

    Also I've tried breathing techniques and meditating but that makes me more stressed and it's definitely something I can't keep in my routine, and when I say I tried it's because I really tried, meditiation only helps me in very specific cases but I usually know when it's gonna be good. 

  • I use the techniques I learned through meditation, mostly pausing to "feel" my body using my mind, working from head to toe and where I find it is tense I instruct the muscles to relax and bring them down from their state of tension.

    By the time I get to my toes I can go from tightly wound up to being able to fall asleep in the matter of a few minutes.

    When in a pinch I can just focus on my shoulders and back which can take me from a stressed state in a meeting or when driving to a much healthier level where the stress in no longer interfering with my thinking and decision making.

    Breathing deep and steadily is a starting point for this too - it helps regulate the heart as much as the adrenaline allows.

    I find this lets me use the other techniques you mention more as a pleasure or a hobby than as a tool which makes them all the more fun.

    When all else fails, providing the circumstances are appropriate, a little manual sexual relief can also work wonders. Not one to use in a stressful meeting unless you want it to be rescheduled I think.