Watch this for a moment. Full screen. Headphones if you have them. Focus on observing the river. Its flow. Its rushing, rushing flow. Lovely river. Look!
I just did. I feel better already.
Share your stress reduction (and intervention) tips below.
Or, ask for tips on combatting your own stressful/fearful thoughts.
1. Love that the video is three hours long. 2. Exercise! It's like taking a nap that you feel less guilty about :-) 3. Dance break between reviewing sections!
Massages lasting longer than 60 minutes have been shown to decrease activity in the frontal lobe due to excess relaxation, with recovery times taking anywhere from 24-48 hours. Here is a news report from a Palo Alto station about the Stanford neuroscientist who conducted the research:
So, here I am, headphones on watching a river flow down a mountain, drinking three fingers of Scotch, rubbing my neighbor's dog's belly; I don't have a dog ... Yeah, I'm still freaking out.
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2. Exercise! It's like taking a nap that you feel less guilty about :-)
3. Dance break between reviewing sections!
Yeah, and an extra finger of scotch as suggested above.
Yeah, I'm still freaking out.
EDIT: SON OF A ............