Stress relief in the now – an instant stress relief series: Eat a little snack

Jeffrey O. Gustafson at the English language Wikipedia [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Everyone likes to have a little snack every now and then, it doesn’t matter if you’re a non-vegetarian, a vegetarian or a vegan; we all like a snack. The thing is most people look down on snacking because: There are people …

On February 28, 2017February 19, 2017 By avinexnesIn Instant stress relief, Recent PostsLeave a comment

It’s not what you think/Outside the box: Being grateful

By Camdiluv ♥ from Concepción, CHILE (Colours) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons Hello everyone and welcome back to changing your mind-set. In today’s episode we are going to be talking about something very important, and that is being grateful for what you have. That’s it, you should be grateful for what you have, do …

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Finding people who share your interests

By Niccolo Raimondi (IT Museum Felonica) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons Humans are social animals, for the most part we need one another not only to survive but to stay sane; no one can live in complete isolation. That’s why we hang out with each other and make friends. The thing is, we can …

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Games that calm you down: Destroy your computer

By tara hunt from Montreal, Canada (Broken Computer) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons A few posts ago I talked about an extremely violent game called Whack Your Boss where you try to find different ways to kill your annoying boss (if you haven’t seen that already you can check it out here -put link …

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Hobbies that calm you down: Reading

By FOTO:Fortepan — ID 5355: Adományozó/Donor : Kurutz Márton. [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons A while back I wrote a post about how writing can help you calm down when you’re stressed (click here to see that post–put link here--). In this post I’m going to talk about the thing that usually goes hand …

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Try this: Escape Rooms

By Escapeguy (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons You are just taking a lovely stroll in the park, playing Pokémon Go, trying to catch a Pikachu when all of a sudden you feel a sharp pain in the back of your head and then blackness. You wake up to find yourself in a …

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Stress relief in the now – an instant stress relief series: Progressive Muscle Relaxation

By Denise Zanardi (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 es], via Wikimedia Commons Stress relief techniques are all well and good but there are times when you are faced with a situation where your stress just starts to build up exponentially like during an entrance exam, when you organise an important event, during a driving test, …

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Games that calm you down: Whack your boss

By Trizek (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons For the people who have a narcissistic, self-absorbed, unsympathetic, unforgiving, uncaring, annoying and downright bad boss (feel free to add in any other attributes of a bad boss I might have missed), this game was made for you. It is a very violent and blood …

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