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Re: Dealing with Stress and Stress-Relief Tips
« Reply #110 on: September 07, 2019, 09:37:55 am »
To make things even more complicated, there is a curry plant that is sold at nurseries that smells like curry but has a bitter taste. Then, there is a curry leaf plant or tree (Murraya koenigii) that smells like curry and has an herbal taste. It is sometimes added to Indian dishes in addition to all the other curry ingredients.
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Re: Dealing with Stress and Stress-Relief Tips
« Reply #111 on: September 09, 2019, 03:26:33 pm »
Sounds delicious! I didn't realize curry (as in the substance in the spice aisle, not the name for an Indian dish) wasn't just its own thing, like parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.





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Re: Dealing with Stress and Stress-Relief Tips
« Reply #112 on: September 09, 2019, 05:52:15 pm »
Another guaranteed stress reducer: Simon and Garfunkel songs! Thanks, Sonja!
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Re: Dealing with Stress and Stress-Relief Tips
« Reply #113 on: September 09, 2019, 05:56:50 pm »
You're welcome Lee!  :)

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Re: Dealing with Stress and Stress-Relief Tips
« Reply #114 on: October 23, 2020, 08:17:23 pm »
Time to update with more stress relief tips! What works for you these days, dear Brokie friends?
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Re: Dealing with Stress and Stress-Relief Tips
« Reply #115 on: October 25, 2020, 06:52:38 pm »
deep breathing


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Re: Dealing with Stress and Stress-Relief Tips
« Reply #116 on: October 30, 2020, 10:15:04 am »
Yes, thanks for that tip. I was doing that this morning, out early in the frosty air, bundling up slash. Very enervating! Fortunately, I can take deep breaths now that the wildfires are more under control. But the snow didn't entirely put them out yet.  :-\
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Re: Dealing with Stress and Stress-Relief Tips
« Reply #117 on: October 31, 2020, 08:35:37 pm »
If you like watching videos on YouTube,  they have a selection of videos that you can watch, soothing sounds and situations you can imagine yourself in.

This one, for example, is a 3 hour long video, a simulation where you can imagine yourself in a city restaurant during a rainy evening, while soft jazz music plays.



Tell him when l come up to him and ask to play the record, l'm gonna say: ''Voulez-vous jouer ce disque?''
'Voulez-vous, will you kiss my dick?'
Will you play my record? One-track mind!

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Re: Dealing with Stress and Stress-Relief Tips
« Reply #118 on: October 31, 2020, 11:30:13 pm »
Hmm. Interesting idea, but I'm not sure this is the scenario I'd pick. Sitting in a restaurant overhearing slightly annoying fragments of other people's conversations, can't eat any of the restaurant's food, can't leave because it's raining too hard, so you spend three hours hanging around doing nothing.

A friend has a TV with a screen the size of a single bed sheet -- that would help put you into the scene even more. Within 10 years people will be doing it with virtual reality, the way they do now by looking through goggles.


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Re: Dealing with Stress and Stress-Relief Tips
« Reply #119 on: November 01, 2020, 01:26:42 am »
Hmm. Interesting idea, but I'm not sure this is the scenario I'd pick. Sitting in a restaurant overhearing slightly annoying fragments of other people's conversations, can't eat any of the restaurant's food, can't leave because it's raining too hard, so you spend three hours hanging around doing nothing.

A friend has a TV with a screen the size of a single bed sheet -- that would help put you into the scene even more. Within 10 years people will be doing it with virtual reality, the way they do now by looking through goggles.


There are lots of scenarios out there.

This one has a scary title, but it can be relaxing.  Haunted Halloween Mansion Fireplace with Thunder, Rain and Howling Wind

Nothing scary happens, I'm assuming they gave it 'haunted mansion" in the title as it's a darkened room in a house.  You hear the crackling fire, howling wind, rain, and occasional thunder.  This one is six hours long.




Tell him when l come up to him and ask to play the record, l'm gonna say: ''Voulez-vous jouer ce disque?''
'Voulez-vous, will you kiss my dick?'
Will you play my record? One-track mind!