Let me ask you a question, do you like eating food? Now let me give you a hint, the answer is yes. Everyone likes to eat food, not that we have much of a choice, we have to eat to survive; and of course everyone’s favourite type of food is good food (shocking isn’t it?). …
Month: December 2016
Chewing gum can reduce stress (Did that girl in Willy Wonka actually have a point?)
Tell me what your favourite flavour of gum is? I have three myself, mint, strawberry and watermelon. Now tell me how many of you have gotten dirty looks from co-workers, parents, friends, teachers or your boss for chewing a wad of gum because they get annoyed seeing your jaw move up and down and tell …
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How Christmas can help stress
‘Tis the season or it soon will be. Christmas, the time of year when family and friends give each other gifts and share a little happiness and tell all the kids that Santa Claus is coming. By Shannon Dale 80 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons While Christmas is a fun time overall, …
A pistachio can help you calm down?
How many of you believe that a nut, a pistachio to be precise, could actually help you manage stress and calm down anxiety? I didn’t believe it but the internet sure does. By PersianDutchNetwork (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons So let’s explain why pistachios are good against stress and anxiety. When you …
Space. The final frontier. (Watching videos of outer space)
In this post we are going to be talking about “Space. The final frontier,” sort of. Recently I came across this channel on YouTube called Space videos which only has videos of footage from outer space. In fact they seem to have a dedicated live stream of the earth from space as recorded from the International …
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Little and big fuzzballs (How pets can help you manage stress)
In today’s post I am going to be talking to the animals, wait that came out wrong. In today’s post I am going to be talking about animals, yes that’s what I meant to say, specifically about pets. By No machine-readable author provided. Caronna assumed (based on copyright claims). [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons …
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Checking out 9gag
This post will be very similar to another post I did earlier called “Visiting useless websites,”. This post isn’t really about a way to calm yourself down if you’re anxious and/or stressed, but more like a way to distract yourself and forget about the stressful stuff around you, and get a few laughs too. There …
Acupressure for stress relief
Many of you might have heard of acupuncture before, you know that ancient Chinese healing art where they stick you with needles on certain points of your body to get your Qi flowing better, but have you heard of acupressure before? I hadn’t, not before this. By Tara Angkor Hotel (Flickr: Classical Thai Massage) [CC …
Hobbies that calm you down: Jigsaw puzzles
Jigsaw puzzles: those things that make up a giant picture by putting together many weirdly shaped small pieces in the correct way. By Puzzle_Krypt.jpg: Munsderivative work: Schlurcher (Puzzle_Krypt.jpg) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons You probably played them when you were a kid and most likely your parents helped you solve them (I know mine …
Alternative Yoga 