Soothing sound websites

By Roland Godefroy (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Are you the type of person who likes to listen to the rain fall but don’t get rain when you want to? Maybe you’re the type that likes to listen to the crackling fire but you don’t want to start a fire …

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Hobbies that calm you down: Knitting

By anna saccheri from Palo Alto, United States (Knitted Dishrags) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons I’m pretty sure everyone knows the stereotype about Grandmothers or old women in general, sitting in the front porch on a rocking chair knitting a scarf or a sweater or mittens or socks for the young ones and themselves. …

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Games that calm you down: Monument Valley

If you are stressed out and/or you like strange games that really put a twist on perspective, how you see things, and can make you really think about how things work, then this game just might be made for you. The stress busting game that I will be talking about in this post is a …

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Try This: Niga Higa

I have talked about a few YouTubers in this blog, some famous, some not so much, but all of them I find entertaining and I think they make nice videos that are good stress busters. In this post I will be talking about another YouTuber who makes funny videos that I enjoy watching, nigahiga. Nigahiga …

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Stressful habits: Trying to be perfect

I, Jina Lee [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Ever since I was young one of the few things I have heard from so called go getters is to “Strive for perfection” and “Never settle for second best.” What none of those go getters ever told me was that perfection is relative and everyone has …

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Stressful habits: Ruminating

By Michael Coghlan from Adelaide, Australia (Have I Forgotten Something?) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons In this post I am going to be talking about a habit that most stressed out people indulge in too much, ruminating. According to the Merriam – Webster online dictionary. to ruminate means “to think carefully and deeply about something.” …

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