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Gardening and stress
I've been pretty stressed this week, what with one thing and another, but I'm coping a lot better than I normally do. Here, therefore, are my top techniques for coping with stress:
1. If you can't talk much, music may help (even if your family complain that there is no such thing as a quiet concertina)
2. Linseed on the breakfast cereal. (lots of Omega 3 and it really seems to be helping) I'm using uncracked linseed and soaking it 24 hours using a bean sprouter.
3. Walks with a friend in the beautiful Dorset countryside.
4. Breathing exercises and meditation.
5. Making lists. Make a list of tasks and tick them off as you complete them. I've cleared quite a bit from my backlog in spite of the shoulder being bad.
6. Gardening. In sunny weather (and sometimes when it is not), gardening is probably the best stress-buster of them all. I've got masses done this last week - weeded most of the rockery, cleared space around my ferns, mowed the lawn, added some new topsoil to the rockery from next door (they dug a pond), rescued the Solomon's seal, cleaned the bird bath, started work on the patio, cut back one of the climbers. There's plenty to go yet, but the front garden in particular looks a lot tidier.
7. Poi - helps, though it may be exacerbating my wrist trouble and there isn't space to do it indoors.
1. If you can't talk much, music may help (even if your family complain that there is no such thing as a quiet concertina)
2. Linseed on the breakfast cereal. (lots of Omega 3 and it really seems to be helping) I'm using uncracked linseed and soaking it 24 hours using a bean sprouter.
3. Walks with a friend in the beautiful Dorset countryside.
4. Breathing exercises and meditation.
5. Making lists. Make a list of tasks and tick them off as you complete them. I've cleared quite a bit from my backlog in spite of the shoulder being bad.
6. Gardening. In sunny weather (and sometimes when it is not), gardening is probably the best stress-buster of them all. I've got masses done this last week - weeded most of the rockery, cleared space around my ferns, mowed the lawn, added some new topsoil to the rockery from next door (they dug a pond), rescued the Solomon's seal, cleaned the bird bath, started work on the patio, cut back one of the climbers. There's plenty to go yet, but the front garden in particular looks a lot tidier.
7. Poi - helps, though it may be exacerbating my wrist trouble and there isn't space to do it indoors.