If I'm really stressed, I usually try to sleep it off, but lately I've been blowing off steam by going for a really long drive with the BR tunes cranked up.
Screaming obsenities really loudly also seems to work for me, too - thank God I live in the country, eh?
And if all else fails, I usually end up visiting Josh at Planet Ink in Ottawa for some body mod. All five of my tattoos and 14 of my 18 piercings have been done as 'stress relief' - don't ask me how it works, it just does. Endorphins, I guess. Speaking of, I just got the fifth tattoo done on Friday. It's beautiful.

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Originally posted by LyneAmour:
I haven't been stressed out for a while, but one
thing I really like to do is to turn all the lights off,
connect my headphones, sit back in my oversized-recliner,
and listen to:
Toad The Wet Sproket's "Coil" if I need spiritual Peace,
"Gone" from Greg Keelor if I need a good cry,
"Dark Side Of The Moon" if I don't know what the heck is wrong with me.

If you have all kinds of music in the house, you've
got the cure for anything and everything.

"The same thing that makes you live
Can kill you in the end." Neil Young

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Dark Side is an amazing album to chill to...and if you're into Floyd, "Wish You Were Here" is a great companion to Dark Side!
If I'm in need of stress relief, it's a hot candle lit bubble bath, a drink and "Crime of the Century" by Supertramp, "Spanish Train and Other Stories" by Chris DeBurgh, or "Outskirts"...belting out "Allllllll, all for a rebeeeeeeeeellllll"...there's nothing more soothing...or deafening in my case!

But I also noticed that much of my own stress was feeling like I was all alone in this huge world who felt the way I did about music...be it BR or anything else for that matter, but now that I go to shows and that I'm using the discussion boards, I find that the need for stress relief diminishes a little more everyday.

And for the record...Jim's voice is like a massage for a broken heart...can't get much more relieving than that!

~~~Tanya~~~

I do Transcendental Meditation - just 20 minutes 2 times a day. I feel alert and refreshed. It's really great, and really easy to learn and do.

For me, I pop in one of my favourite DVDs, HP & TPS or HP & TCOS, and listen to the banter while I read. It works every time.

This place ...just keeps getting BETTER& BETTER
(another great post)

Well, playing my guitar, was most theraputic..
However..apparently, there was someone who liked it , even more than me...THEY STOLE IT
So, now a days, its either a drive in my Jeep (no destination)or as Chuck Berry would say???
"no particular place to go"
We still(by kids and I)love to go to my favourite place in this world!!
To this HUGE park, and sit on the banks of the river, feeding the ducks..OR..the 3 of us, just being silly together doing KID stuff!!
It is the most, beautifull, calm, uncrowded and greenest place, I have ever found..
VERY PEACEFULL...back in the days when I was working 10-14 hrs. per day?? I would often go there, by myself...just to simly CLEAR MY HEAD..
Of all the emotional CRAP..I needed to get rid of....It"s equally important..that we "PUT-OUT,
the mental and emotional TRASH, from time to time...just the same as we PUT-OUT, our garbage cans and waste baskets..(don"t ya think??)

"now I am lost..and I can"t even feel my head"
JGC

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~ I"m steady as rain
nothing ever changes in my heart~ JGC..

Seeing as guitar doesn"t seem to be as good a stress-buster as it used to be?

(tends to wind me up now a days!)

Fishing is perhaps the best stress-buster of all time! ( works for me, anyway )..

I"ve also begun classes in Bhudist Meditation...so good to just "turn-off" the outside world!...and get in-touch with ones "self" (body&mind together)

                              MBT

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~ I"m steady as rain
nothing ever changes in my heart~ JGC..

I always find that yelling, cussing, stomping and throwing things are good stress busters for me!

Turn on the amp, turn it up loud (I mean REALLY LOUD), plug in the guitar and start playin!!

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Talk Is Cheap - Well I Outta Know!!!!!!
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For me stress is in my life all the time. So... I usually take a hot bubble bath, with a candle burning. Sometimes I will go for a walk, or drive around in my car. I find screaming and yelling sometimes works too.

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Bluegirl:

I always find that yelling, cussing, stomping and throwing things are good stress busters for me!

This seems to work for me to, I'm usually better if I can get in my daily walks, but I haven't been able to do that lately. This is bad since it effects both mood and waistline . But I'm know for drop kicking a box of Fruity Pebbles out my front door, so I suppose I can be guilty of over the edge at times, but I swear I'm always pushed.

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"There's one in every crowd, for crying out loud,
why was it always turning out be me"

Elvis was not only the King, but a really awesome person as well!

A really fast paced 1/2 hr to an hour walk!!  And I'm talking fast.

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"How the best things are won with sacrifice"

I find that it's the little things that help relieve stress....like when a tourist asks you for directions in New York. After I've given them directions I always walk away with a big smile on my face knowing I've sent them in the wrong direction and they'll never freakin find the place.  

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Where my designer B*tches at?

MAGNETS....COWS....HERD....it all makes sense now?

There's nothing worse than driving in a snowstorm with a GPS that's on the rag

Do you take PAYPAL?

LOL  when we were kids and living on Cape Cod, the tourists would come and ask us where the bridge to Martha's Vineyard was.  You'd think that if they could find their way to the Cape, and that they were going to the Vineyard, that they would know that they would have to take a boat, that there is no bridge....but no...  So...we would send them to the closest big bridge that we knew of...the one that brought them onto the Cape in the first place.  We didn't see too many of the same people twice....

 

My was of stress relief?  just listening to some good music and clearing my mind of all of the junk.  That and/or going to the ocean and leaving all of that crap behind me while I look out at the water.

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"the first time I kissed you I lost my legs" DMB

"Take a bow when you feel like a superstar.
Shake your pants when you feel what's inside your heart" Michael Franti

I'm relieved to know I was not the only one guilty of sending tourists in the wrong direction. I felt justified in my choice though. I worked on Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls. When you are walking on Clifton Hill you see signs pointing which way the falls are, you can see the mist rising, you can hear the bloody roar of the falls. I would get people asking me which way the falls were. I would send them the wrong way, or I would tell them if they hurry they will see them turn the falls off....but I was always answering questions like "Are you going to give me back my change in that funny monopoly money"  that would burn my butt, and I would happily think, "Yes and I'm going to screw you on the exchange as well" The guys I worked with would spit a wad of gum on the sidewalk and then bet how long it took someone to step in it. I thought that was a little gross. But I actually saw people coming in to Niagara Falls with skis expecting snow in June.

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"There's one in every crowd, for crying out loud,
why was it always turning out be me"

Elvis was not only the King, but a really awesome person as well!

 Geez, not to pick on you two personally, but is that attitude endemic in the good ole USofA?

  Now that might explain why the majority of American tourists, who visit our fair city during the plethora of festivals/formula one event, often offer me money (which I always refuse) after explaining how, and sometimes actually helping them, to get to their respective destination. Thought I was just being neighbourly.

  As for those skis in June... Yep, I can truly say I've seen someone driving downtown here with skis on a rack in 80+ weather. Hmm maybe the general thought is the Arctic starts abruptly at the 49th parallel?

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To be or not to be is NOT the question!

Rather, is it your will to be here, or to be elsewhere?