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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?

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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