100 ways to relax and unwind

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100 ways to relax and unwind

Over the last few weeks I have really been struggling to relax and unwind at the end of the day. 

My stress levels have been high and my sleep has been restless. 

Following the massive popularity of my eBook Enlightening Stress Relief I realized that so many of us 

are struggling to relax. For this reason I have compiled the ultimate list of ways to relax, 

unwind and loosen up before, during and after work. Enjoy!

100 Ways to Relax, Unwind and Loosen Up

1. Drink some green tea
2. Take a nap
3. Go outside
4. Get fresh air
5. Get sunlight
6. Meditate on the breath
7. Breathe deeply
8. Watch some TV
9. Listen to classical music
10. Go to the gym
11. Eat more fruit
12. Go for a walk in the city
13. Get a fruit milkshake
14. Talk to a friend on the phone
15. Strengthen your Facebook addiction
16. Walk around the office
17. Do some deep muscle stretches
18. Look at inspiring photos
19. Read your favorite blogs
20. Call your mother
21. Read national geographic or magazines about far away places
22. Go somewhere high with a vast view
23. Reduce the amount of coffee you drink
24. Drink more water
25. Get a shot of wheat grass juice
26. Go for a walk around the markets or somewhere with lots of natural produce
27. Go somewhere where sunlight warms your face
28. Exercise before work to get the blood flowing
29. Get some healthy comfort food (hearty soups or something that makes you feel great)
30. Go for a swim or a spa
31. Get a massage at your local massage school (its cheaper)
32. Call some old friends and meet for lunch
33. Listen to relaxation mp3’s
33. Delete all the emails in your inbox
34. Clean your desk
35. Tidy your room and make your bed so it’s clean when you go to sleep
36. Open up windows and let fresh air in
37. Make a list of all the things you need to do today
38. Write a letter to your parents or someone in your family you haven’t seen in a while
39. Take a day off work
40. Go shopping for someone in your family
41. Visit an awe-inspiring monastery, church, temple or piece of architecture
42. Head down to the beach and walk in the shallow water
43. Go to a lake and skim rocks on the surface
44. Read a book you enjoyed as a child
45. Cook a lavish and complicated dinner
46. Make a lemon, ginger honey tea
47. Go to your local botanic gardens where there are lots of colorful flowers
48. Tense all your muscles for ten seconds and then suddenly let go
49. Get a stress ball or hand grippers

50. Get off the computer and relax your eyes
51. Go for a run around the city at lunch time
53. Get a big Chinese noodle soup for lunch (warm water is good for stress)
54. Go and see a comedy show
55. Go to bed early
56. Have a sleep in
57. Take some allotted time to do nothing at all
58. Plant some trees to make your life more carbon neutral
59. Go and see a sporting match
60. Hire some comedy movies and relax on the couch with a blanket
61. Take deep breaths for five minutes
62. Join an evening yoga class
63. Go to the city library and just sit down
65. Have a big long conversation with your partner about nothing in particular
66. Turn off the television/computer and do something low tech
67. Eat a big bowl of fruit with natural honey on top
68. Pack a picnic, get in the car and drive to a new outdoors spot
69. Play some after work team sport like indoor soccer or cricket
70. Go to a meditation class (they are usually very relaxing)
71. Drink a cup of plain hot water (old Chinese method of healing)
72. Do a painting or drawing of your home
73. Call up 10 mates and organize some sport in the park and a BBQ
74. Go out to a favorite restaurant for dinner
75. Hire an Xbox 360 and have a lazy weekend
76. Study a topic you have a deep interest in but which doesn’t relate to work
75. Buy a beanbag and fall asleep watching TV
76. Take a hot shower and leave the fan off so the room steams up
78. Buy a cheap self-massaging wand and massage your tense spots
79. Get the daily chores out of the way now instead of worrying about them
80. Get a 20 minute power nap like Leonardo da Vinci
81. Light some healing and relaxation incense
82. Ride your bike to work instead of driving in the hustle
83. Get the kids off to a friend’s house for a sleep-over
84. Use some bath salts and take a long bath in a candle lit bathroom
85. Talk about your problems with someone
86. Plan a holiday you would love to take in the future
87. Cut out the sugar in your diet (it causes stress)
88. Take a relaxation supplement like Brahmi
89. Watch your thoughts without engaging them
90. Get to work early and finish the day’s work as fast as possible and then forget it
91. Unsubscribe from blogs that you really don’t need in your Feed Reader
92. Stop wasting so much time on Facebook, Myspace and Twitter
93. Spend some more time with your dog or animal (they’ll love you for it)
94. Throw out stuff around your house your really don’t need or use
95. Create a list of relaxation tips to help other people
96. Start a detox diet
97. Turn on some music and dance around your house
98. Have a warm glass of milk
99. Pick up a hobby you have neglected
http://www.thedailymind.com/stress/100-ways-to-relax-unwind-and-loosen-up/100. Just relax!

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The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

Even Life Coaches Get Stressed

This is the cross word cathedral. Three letters beginning with E.

It is called after a fish.

Cross words maybe should be calm words?

Even Life Coaches Get Stressed

Tim Brownson

It all started about mid-December of last year

when my anxiety levels started to creep up on me again.

This is nothing new, I have had an on-off relationship with GAD (generalized anxiety disorder)

since as long as I can remember.

And I’m being serious, I have no recollection whatsoever of a time in my life when anxiety

wasn’t a mosquitoes dick away from making an unwanted appearance.

For the decade or so before I started coaching I relied on self medication 

and distraction tactics, such as working all the hours I could in the week 

and partying hard at the weekends.

But those tactics were about as likely to succeed as if you were to decide 

to feed the Lions at the local zoo by strapping a dead Zebra to your back 

and asking them to please nibble carefully.

Into Life Coaching We Go

It was the search for other alternatives that took me on to a stress management course

and then into Life Coaching.

It probably saved my life.

Since then I have acquired some rather sexy tools for dealing with my anxiety.

It doesn’t mean it never rears its butt ugly head, just that I know now what to do when it does and can counteract it (usually in minutes or at the most hours, rather than days, 

weeks or even months).

In December I was really tired and also really busy.

Running A Daring Adventure is enough on its own, but Coach the Life Coach was taking off 

and I was trying to get a lot shoe-horned into a shorter month 

with a vacation back to the UK looming.

The first thing to drop off was my meditation.

Actually I say it dropped off, it would me more honest of me to say, I dropped off.

Bye-Bye Meditation, Hello Napping

I was so tired I took to meditating lying down, usually doing a body scan,

knowing damn well I’d fall asleep for half an hour.

Sleep and meditation are not the same thing.

If they were the world would be a lot more chilled, happy and even-keeled.

By mid-December I’d convinced myself it was already the holidays so it was ok to relax

with a glass or two of wine rather than meditate or work out in the evening.

If you’re shaking your head and thinking. ‘What the fuck was he thinking off?’

you’d have my admiration for being so on the money – 

maybe you should become a Life Coach?

The vacation was brilliant, but turned into a full frontal attack on my liver.

Travelling with friends who like a drink, seeing old friends who like a drink

and spending time with family who like a drink is a recipe for having quite a few drinks.

It was fun – a lot of fun, and I don’t regret it, but coupled with the fact I didn’t meditate once

or put in more exercise than walking to the bar, 

meant I got home, not refreshed, but exhausted.

The stress didn’t abate when the New Year kicked off because I had more on my plate

than Mr Creosote in Monty Pythons ‘The Meaning of Life’.

About a week into 2015 I thought, ‘This cannot go on, I’m sliding back to where I was 12 years ago

and I don’t want to die just yet. I want to win Miss World and save the Panda’s first’

With Coach The Life Coach I feel like I have a massive duty of care to the people I train

to make sure the information I give them is as good it can be.

I was trying to keep up with all the Social Media and SEO (search engine optimization)

changes on my own.

Both industries are constantly changing and morphing and I was having to read up on them

on a daily basis and still struggling to keep my head above water.

There are people bailing out of the SEO industry because they can’t keep up with Googles changes and that’s all they do! They aren’t having to coach and run two businesses too.

Life Coaches Need Life Coaches Too Sometimes

I hadn’t worked with my own Life Coach for almost 3 years,

so I changed that by hiring Meredith Hooke.

Not only is she a great coach, but we share the same dark sense of humor,

love of Jim Jeffries humor and she’s also a meditation expert.

Since I committed to her that I would stop dicking about and do it properly I haven’t missed

a days meditation. What’s more, for the first time in 8 or 9 years  I’m really enjoying it.

I also hired a Social Media expert so I could forget about having to trawl through the daily,

and sometimes twice daily, updates knowing not only was I not letting my students down,

but they would be getting even better advice.

I hired a designer so I could drop the feeling that some of my course information

was as attractive as Keith Richards after a 3-day bender,

and I re-hired Chris Gaskill my awesome web guy to help in certain areas.

I also started doing Rick Hansons incredible ‘Foundation of Well- Being’ course.

I am only about 1/5th of the way into this as it’s designed to be a 12 month course,

but the material, (both depth and breadth) is like nothing I’ve even seen before.

You can check it out here because I think it’s going to be a real game-changer in the industry.

It is an affiliate link because as soon as I got into it I knew I wanted to share it with clients

and my readers, but if you hate the thought of me earning a few bucks if you sign up,

then just Google it and avoid the link.

By the way, I plan on writing a more in-depth review when I am further into the course

that will appear in my newsletter.

I also plan to hire some other people as I develop the Coach the Life Coach course

and so I can also get back to do what I do best, which is coach, teach and write.

Oh, and I’ve knocked the alcohol on the head for a month or two

because I didn’t like the way that was going.

Whenever I have quit drinking for extended periods in the past it’s been daunting.

For some reason this time it feels nothing like that, it feels liberating.

I have no intention of never having a glass of wine again. 

But I have every intention of never pouring one because I’ve let myself get stressed senseless by not taking care of myself.

That’s a promise I’ve made to my coach, my wife and now you.

We all have one body and one life and sometimes we need help.

I had forgotten that.

Which is kind of weird when you think I earn my living by helping people.

http://www.adaringadventure.com/life-coaching/even-life-coaches-get-stressed/

Introduction to Turbo Charged Reading YouTube

A practical overview of Turbo Charged Reading YouTube 

How to choose a book. A Turbo Charged Reading YouTube

Emotions when Turbo Charged Reading YouTube

Advanced Reading Skills Perhaps you’d like to join my FaceBook group ?

www.facebook.com/mreenhunt

www.pinterest.com/mreenhunt

Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blog:

www.innermindworking.blogspot.com         gives many ways for you to work with the stresses of life

www.turbochargedreading.blogspot.com    for extra TCR information

www.happyartaccidents.blogspot.com         just for fun.

To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”