One thing I realised during the course of my life is that while I can tell when I’m stressed out, I often underestimate just how stressed I am. Like let’s say I had a bad day, now I feel slightly sad and pissed off, which is okay, what else can you expect from a bad …
Tag: anxiety
Gaming to control stress
In this blog I talk a lot about different ways to help calm yourself down, relax and manage your stress. I even try out these techniques myself because it seems unfair to tell other people what to do to manage stress and relax but then not try them out yourself. To me that’s a bit …
Meditating for dummies (Training your monkey mind)
So I saw this video recently where a monk (I think his name is Mingyur Rinpoche) explains meditation and how you don’t really need to blank out your mind, you just need to be able to focus your mind on one thing. Even if your mind wanders its fine, as long as you bring it …
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Music soothes the savage beast part 2 (How singing can calm you down)
Before, I talked about listening to music and what it does for you. I mentioned some of the different genres if music, how music affects your mood, how I tend to listen to music every day, all that good stuff (least I hope it was good). Now I’m going to talk about music again, but …
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Riddle me this (Riddle Solving and the mind)
Riddle me this, riddle me that, name me a fish that is round and flat. A puffer fish Did you like my riddle? What’s that? No! Okay. Well my bad riddle aside, the reason why I mention them at all is because of the way they make you think so that you can deduce what …
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Healthy Body = Healthy Mind (Come and look at my muscles)
Okay, are all of you listening? Are all of you paying attention? You better be, because this is important. Your body is a temple and you need to treat it that way. Now I’m going to tell you exactly what you need to do to maintain your temple body so you better take notes. You …
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The science behind cat videos
Anyone who spends a lot of time on the internet will probably know that the entire internet population is obsessed with cats. Cat memes, cat videos, cat pictures, cat animations the list ‘goes ever ever on.’ Of course this does bring up the question, why cats? Out of all the cute (or stupid depending on …
Welcome to Alternative Yoga
An introduction to this blog
Alternative Yoga 