First, know what relaxes you. This is a message from the Massachusetts Institute for the Bleeding Obvious.
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Remember: You can develop a dependency on tranquilizers, so if you start using them, be sure you have a hefty supply to feed your inevitable addiction.
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Sometimes, relaxation is simply a matter of going to your “special place”… a place in your mind where you can just take it easy. And look! It’s been purchased and gentrified and you are no longer allowed in. How relaxed are you, now?
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For some, a hot bath brings about relaxation… but, it almost never works on your cat.
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Stress comes from anticipating the worst. Visualize the best possible thing that can happen and work towards that. The very worst thing will STILL happen but at least it will be a surprise…
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For relaxing, a guided meditation is twice as effective as doing nothing and five times more effective than banging two pieces of shale together.
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Some experts recommend relaxing your body one piece at a time… first your feet, then your legs, then your torso, etc. Just remember to stop at relaxing your own body and don’t lose track and start relaxing pieces of the body of the person sitting next to you.
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It‘s easy to relax after a session of vigorous, passionate and mutually-satisfying sex; but, I’m sure the kind of sex we normal people have is almost as effective.
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Among people who live with homicidal maniacs who get irrationally angry when those around them are stressed, stress is the number one killer.
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Yoga is a good way to relax. For those of you who don’t know, yoga is essentially wrestling but, instead of twisting someone’s body to bring about pain, you are twisting your own body.
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Alcohol, drugs, and Kodak
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A picture is worth a thousand shots…
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Of bald heads🤔
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Since I’m wide awake after 3 hours’ sleep, this was a good bit of advice for me. Too bad I was already drinking my first cup of coffee…
(Forwarding this to my sister, who is a yoga instructor. 😏)
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Kudos to you for realizing you WEREN’T going back to sleep and getting up. I’ll usually try for about an hour before giving up…
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So do I. It’s OK, we’re traveling today, and my husband does all the driving. 😌😴
(Spell check just tried to change that to “does all the drinking.” 😳 NOW I’m awake.)
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LOL!
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Yeah, autocorrect – my worst enema.
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Now THAT I wish I’d written!
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I find banging shale together very relaxing, but I can tell you from experience bathing a cat is not.
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I was tasked with getting one into a cat carrier and I almost needed a pint of blood afterwards…
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You never realize how strong a cat is until you attempt that.
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I had a dream that our cat went around my bedroom pooping everywhere. I chased her all over in anger and when I thought I caught her it turned out to be a little pig that just stared at me, leaned forward, and peed all over my carpet. Then I woke up, all stressed out. The cat is haunting my special place – and I have never even TRIED to bathe her!
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Cats lay eggs in your brain…
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She just stares at me while I sleep so she is definitely doing something to my brain.
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My cat only did that if I was the only one in the house. She’d freak out and watch me while I slept and then jump on me at random times. I was going to sleep the night and then meet my family the next day, but after a few hours of that, I just left at one in the morning. She scratched my neck something fierce…
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