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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'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!

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  • 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!

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