What do you do, or where do you go, when you want to feel completely relaxed?...





Music?
Incense?
Drives?
Walks?
Readking?

What puts you at ease and lets you escape the stress...?

i love to burn my incense and just curl up under a thick blanket...
sometimes i'll put on my yoga music and just zone out

orrrr, i'll smoke some shisha and all's well after that

Take a nap

i meditate..
espacism..

and well..

his music is a good form of relaxation.

sammij said:

Byron said:

All of the above...plus yoga, meditation, playing with or just observing my dog, talking to my parrot, sitting on one of my decks with a nice glass of wine and looking out at the woods with the sound of the stream in the background....

Can I go home yet, boss?

veronikka said:

I'm not able to sleep when I'm stressed...

Sedona, AZ...I just got back from there...one of the most beautiful places on this planet. I will retire and grow old there!

weepingwall said:

I couldn't meditate to save my life lol ...I tried once, I couldn't grasp it.

cubic61052 said:

...Animals are EXTREMELY relaxing to interact and play with...good one.


stressed-out edit..
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there's a great spot at my school next to a lake, under a tree. it's heaven to lie there and listen to music.

evenstar3 said:

Either sleep, play a game on the PC, or if I'm anywhere near a shore, I'd enjoy the calming sounds of the waves.

VANITYSprisonBYTCH said:

...My sister went there a few years ago, and just raved about it...

The photo in the first post above I took while in Greece ...was looking thru my Photobucket and saw it, and it reminded me of how peaceful I felt while there.

Next thing I knew I was creating this thread lol ...

Byron said:

Meditation comes in various forms....it is not necessarily sitting in lotus position on the floor and chanting Om....

If you are at all contemplative or a thinker, you meditate naturally....

Byron said:

thats your point you try to meditate..meditation comes in without force..like the breeze..people meditate because the feel they have to..meditation works when you want to meditation..the way you come into meditation affects the meditation..well that's what my roshi said.

mdiver said:

i hate you with the burning fire of a thousand suns.

cubic61052 said:

this is very true.

Byron said:

i love shisha! i bough a hookah and everything

evenstar3 said:

Under a tree, next to a lake...listening to music...Perfection.

Byron said:

Interesting you would say that about Greece....that is how Paris affects me....I feel perfectly calm and at peace....

cubic61052 said:

Hmm...I may need to re-assess what meditation is, then...because I am most definitely contemplative lol...

Byron said:

I'm glad you did! I am in that post-vacation mode still..but I'm back in crazy loud LA so I'm trying to stay tranquil as I did in Sedona....it has all my favorite things...green trees, water, beautiful mountains, clean air....I could cry right now just thinking about it!!!!

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weepingwall said:

Ok, I'm gonna have to delve more thoroughly into meditation, I see...

sammij said:

(I don't know what that is....)

ArielB said:

The ocean waves are SO damn calming to me, too ...

Also, and this is something you might appreciate, I relax and calm myself thru photography...

I lock myself in the bathroom and take a long, hot bath. Maybe bring in a book or put the radio on some relaxing station.

Up until June I was in an apartment with a jacuzzi. My new apartment hasn't one... plus the bathroom is really ugly. I'ma have to strike some arrangement with the landlord to fix it up or something.

sammij said:

I've never tried it...

cubic61052 said:

Greece--well, Santorini--had that effect on me...every cell in my body just mellowed and I felt insanely at peace.

cubic61052 said:

flavoured tobacco
you smoke it out of this: