top five relaxation techniques
Mar. 1st, 2008 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
constance- Taking a long hot bath. I don't have a shower in my bathroom, just an old pink cast-iron bathtub, but even if I had a shower, I probably wouldn't use it, because I dearly love soaking. I lean back and zone out and the next thing I know it's half an hour later and the water's getting cold. It's not sleeping, and it's not conscious meditation; it's just this perfect free-float. It's a good way to start the day, I find, but I have to be careful not to zone out for too long.
- Brushing the dog. He needs it, because he is a hairy monster who sheds bushels of fur by the week. He loves it. I love it. Win/win/win.
- Driving. This one's pretty specific: it can't be on interstate, or in city traffic. But give me a long country road and lots of green and I could drive forever, whether the radio worked or not. (Working radio = good, though.)
- Reading. I seriously can't go to sleep unless I've read myself somnolent. (The best choice for relaxing, for me, is to read something I've read before.)
- Painting my toenails/giving myself a pedicure. Because I'm secretly sort of shallow.
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Now it's your turn. What are your favorite relaxation techniques?
Re: Edited to remove nonstop italics
Date: 2008-03-03 02:49 am (UTC)Maybe the bath issue is something to do with your height? I'm medium-tallish, so I never am in danger of submersion unless I want to be submerged, but I have a friend who's much smaller, and she says she feels really uncomfortable in baths because she feels as though she has to concentrate on not going under.
I am so behind 1, 2 (ferries across the Mississippi River are also sublime, as I learned while in NO), 4, and 5 (well, pets, since there mostly aren't children conveniently to hand when I'm ready to wind down) that I feel I should look up the things you mention in #3 just on principle. :D