What do you do to decompress and de-stress?

[Curved_Sw0rd]

Let's share our method for getting through the day, especially when the going gets tough.

For me, I've found working out, meditation, and reading really work out when my mind is flying at mach 9. Working out and reading in particular kind of play into meditation, as they both offer a chance to stop thinking, or to think a bit more freely and unburdened by one's own consciousness.

 

[Redlance]

GTA V. It can be quite relaxing to steal a car then run over ten or fifteen pedestrians.


That or pet my dog.

 

[Deleted member 1]

Motoring, listening to music, writing, cooking, dancing (moving up the list), taking the waters. I suppose drinking is on the list because I am not really the sort to care much for modern puritanical condemnation of alcohol, but it is sincerely low.

 

[Arch Dornan]

Listening to YouTube livestreams of people talking can be quite relaxing.

 

[Terthna]

I meditate; do some breathing exercises, try not to focus on anything. Listening to music also helps; I have a "Serene" playlist over twelve hours long that does wonders.

 

[Quickdraw101]

I either listen to music or go and workout. Quite frequently both at the same time. Video games are great as well, as was mentioned earlier in the thread. Or love on my mother's kittens until they don't want attention anymore.

 

[Es Arcanum]

A big cigar, a bottle of fine quality spirits and a verandah with a view.

 

[Dragonofchaos]

Reading, playing video games like age of empires, age of mythology, warcraft 3,warhammer total war, heroes of might and magic, listening to music on spotify, watching videos on YouTube, these are the things I enjoy doing.

 

[Sailor.X]

Meditation is one thing I do. I also play a nice relaxing video game like Solitare, Civilization V and Star Trek Online.

 

[Sea Skimmer]

Drink and insert an additional activity...


....often video games with my gamer group, though that's gotten a bit slim of late because battlefield v is such a flop and COD and Borderlands 2 aren't out yet, but also sometimes I just build a little fire in my backyard or nestle down and watch historical video through youtube.

 

[FriedCFour]

Let's share our method for getting through the day, especially when the going gets tough.

For me, I've found working out, meditation, and reading really work out when my mind is flying at mach 9. Working out and reading in particular kind of play into meditation, as they both offer a chance to stop thinking, or to think a bit more freely and unburdened by one's own consciousness.

Take a fat rip of the old vape and put on some tunes, usually 80s rock.

 

[Quickdraw101]

This is also an option.

 

[SergeantBrother]

Being out in nature, walking through the woods in the mountains, helps me unwind. It’s one of the only times a get a spiritual sort of sensation. I lift weights as well, but it doesn’t give me the same positive feelings.

 

[Laskar]

I drink. Sometimes I go on long car rides and listen to podcasts, which is when I don't drink.

I'd like to go on long hikes in the forest, but that's a long ways to drive.

 

[PsihoKekec]

Go for a walk, participate in virtual mass murder of evildoers on easy setting or pop in Blackadder DVD.

 

[prinCZess]

Listening to podcasts while doing otherwise inane stuff like housework or a workout, non-political ones or ones that only skirt the edges of politics, always does a good job of relaxing me--Andrew Heaton a name I will bring up just because the dude has put out some interesting interviews and discussion of stuff on Star Trek (meh for me) and Blade Runner (yes please!) I've listened to that were really interesting, and seems right up this forum's alley. Humor's always a good stress reliever, and the guy has a somewhat off sense of humor that appeals to me.

Baths are great too in combo with listening to something. I've tried reading in the bath a few times, but it's just too awkward, unfortunately. And while I'm down for podcasts, I've only ever been middling-ly enthusiastic about audiobooks. Never been able to understand the appeal of silence unless I'm out in the woods or something, though. There being no noise while I'm in a building or a car just seems so weirdly unnatural, I don't know how people meditate or just silently ponder things without some kind of background input.
I'll just go off the assumption my brain's so big and active it needs distraction.

I love the process of making bread-dough and cookies...And the end-result of that usually turns out pretty good, too, if I do say so myself. Something very relaxing and satisfying about the whole process of kneading and rolling out bread dough, or balling up cookie-dough (and maybe sneaking a ball or two...or ten), and its one I think a lot more people would enjoy if they had the chance to try it. If for no other reason than the fact it gets you such better end-results than the garbage they sell in supermarkets.

 

[Husky_Khan]

I used to just drive around the suburbs listening to music Or history audio books and randomly finding places, then I realized gasoline costs money.

If I'm not getting a workout high at the gym then my favorite way of relieving stress at home is getting on the computer.

I load up Total War Warhammer 2 with a Beastmen campaign and set upon my ongoing quest to destroy the proud civilized realms of Men, Elves and Dwarfs. I raze their cities, desecrate their holy sites, plunder their wealth and pursue wholesome fruitful consensual polyamorous intimate relations with their soft fertile female folk.

 

[Francis Urquhart]

Settle down in a comfortable chair with a single-malt whisky and update my plans to blow up the world

 

[PsihoKekec]

Ruling Britain not good enough for you anymore?

 

[Rocinante]

Lift weights and go running.

Kind of a running newb, but after running 5k I'm not stressed anymore.