By Adrian Pingstone (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons In today’s digital age, it sometimes feels like people don’t physically write on paper anymore; I know that strictly speaking that isn’t true but it does feel like that sometimes. But for those of us who remember what writing is, we should also remember how …
Month: January 2018
Games that calm you down: Kaleidoscope Drawing Apps
By photo taken by H. Pellikka (Own work) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons Hello everyone. Tell me something; when you were a kid did you have a kaleidoscope? What did you think of it? Did you have fun with it? Well I did have a Kaleidoscope as a kid and used …
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Try This: itsAlexClark
In this post I am going to talk about yet another YouTuber whose videos I enjoy watching and who I watch on a regular basis and that is itsAlexClark. Alex Clark is a animator or cartoonist as he likes to call himself and a comedian. His main job (for now) is that of a street performer, …
Try this: Keep your hands busy/fidgeting
Idle hands are the devils playpen, or so the saying goes. In this post I would like to talk about keeping your hands busy; this post is kind of an extension of other posts which talk about fiddling with objects to relieve stress. One talks about stress balls (put link here) and the other talks …
Stop comparing yourself
See page for author [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons There are a lot of things in this world that can get you down, make you feel depressed, stressed out, anxious and generally not good enough. But nothing hits harder and faster than what you do to yourself, because all in all you know yourself the …
Food that calms you down: Almond milk
By Thomson200 (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons I should probably call this a drink that calms you down, but I want to keep everything in the same series so I hope you’ll let me get away with this. In this post I will be talking about the calming properties of almond milk. Now here’s …
Try This: Watch a nature time lapse video
A lot of you may or may not agree with me when I say this, but nature can be a very strange thing. It can sometimes be catastrophic and unpredictable, but at the same time it can be relaxing, calming and soothing. Watching cute animals, listening to the sounds of the winds and rain, these …
It’s not what you think/Outside the box: soul searching
By U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region (Searching for musselsUploaded by AlbertHerring) [CC BY 2.0 or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons There are sometimes days when things are especially dire and you stop and ask yourself, ‘what do I want from life?’ Now when I say dire, I don’t mean something like your house …
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Alternative Yoga 