Food that calms you down: Basil (the herb not the great mouse detective)

In this post we will be talking about how Holy Basil can help you with anxiety and stress; well I say we, but truthfully I’m going to be the one doing all the talking and you guys are just going to read the text (you don’t have a choice). By Shashidhara halady (Own work) [CC …

Continue reading Food that calms you down: Basil (the herb not the great mouse detective)

Games that calm you down: Akinator

So this post is going to be a little different from the others. Just like the heading says, it is about a game that can help you calm down, but the difference here is that this game has not been made for stress relief and has no evidence pointing towards that either. Instead it’s just …

Continue reading Games that calm you down: Akinator

Dance away your blues

A lot of people like to dance whenever they feel good, even when they’re in the car and can’t get up they still move their upper bodies around like they’re in the club and on the dance floor. Now why do people do this? While some people will say that they can’t control the way …

Continue reading Dance away your blues

LOL (Laughing to calm your nerves)

By Trailer screenshot (Mary Poppins Trailer) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons In the Disney movie "Mary Poppins", there's a song called "I Love to Laugh." In it the singer describes how he loves to laugh (ha ha) and how much joy laughing brings him. So much joy that he actually floats to the ceiling. In …

Continue reading LOL (Laughing to calm your nerves)

That smells good (Aromatherapy and stress)

For this post I’m going to be discussing something that I don’t know that much about, but that’s okay because the whole point of this blog is to learn and then share the knowledge anyway. The thing that I am going to be talking about in this post is aromatherapy. By Martin Falbisoner (Own work) …

Continue reading That smells good (Aromatherapy and stress)

Games that calm you down: Music catch

By Johann Sebastian Bach (File:BWV 772 music sheet.pdf) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons It’s been a while since I last did a post like this and I have mentioned before that I like playing games, so I thought it’s about time I wrote another one of these, so here it is. In this post …

Continue reading Games that calm you down: Music catch

Visiting Useless websites

By Robert Reisman (WooteleF) (Own work) [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons The internet is a weird and wonderful place, if you just look around you find things there that you never even knew existed. Sometimes it’s really cool stuff like YouTube, 9gag and 4chan, other times its really useful stuff like TedEd, Alison learning …

Continue reading Visiting Useless websites

Food that reduces stress: Salmon

By K.b.cheng (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons When I was a kid I hated fish, and there were two reasons for that: I didn’t like how it had so many bones I needed to pick out. I didn’t like how every time I visited my grandparents, I ‘had’ to eat fish almost …

Continue reading Food that reduces stress: Salmon

Everything takes time (Time is a gift)

Today I want to talk about something which people either use too much of or never seem to have enough of, time. You see, people who suffer from depression or stress or anxiety or all of the above, need time to recover (just like any disease) and get back to normal. Now a lot people …

Continue reading Everything takes time (Time is a gift)