I personally enjoy taking long walks. It doesn’t matter if it’s in the woods, on a bike trail, or just through town. There’s something nice about just meandering and being alone with your thoughts while still being immersed in the outside world.

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    Biggest thing for me is mindfulness in whatever I’m doing. It’s such a difference between “I am going to relax” and “I am staying busy relaxing to avoid processing my feelings”.

    Usually a hot bath is my go-to. It’s helpful to have some music and quiet to ponder why I am compressed, what changes need to be made, or if I just need time to be allowed to feel.

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      1 year ago

      Great points here. Sometimes I will go for a walk and then wonder, why don’t I feel any better? And it’s likely because that wasn’t what I actually needed.

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      I switched from daily showers to daily baths about a year ago. It’s a great way to relax at the end of the day.

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        1 year ago

        I alternate between the two depending on how much effort I want to do, but I think you never get too old for a bubble bath!

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      It’s so, so easy to end up just scrolling through social media - fediverse included - or through youtube or whatever just because it fills your mind with bees so that you don’t think about your problems, rather than because it is actually what you’d most like to be doing.

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        The biggest thing I’m taking from the fracturing of the spaces like reddit and Twitter is to try and break myself out of that fog. Isolation during the pandemic really didn’t help those tendencies!