Things you enjoy, even when no one around you wants to go out and play. What lowers your stress/blood pressure/anxiety level? Make a list, post it to your journal… and then tag 5 friends and ask them to post it to theirs.
1. Reading. A good book, a novel especially, serves to de-fuss me well.
2. Candle-making. Something about making candles out of old wax gives me a calm satisfaction. Part of it is using up waste wax, another is the process of melting, re-forming, burning, melting, etc. Constant change from solid to liquid and back.
3. Accomplishment. I really like crossing things off of lists, but only if they are well and truly finished.
4. Writing. Getting a story from my head to paper is an amazing release. Putting these nearly-real voices and images and people into their worlds in ways that others can know them… just so perfect.
5. Orgasms. ‘Nuff said.
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