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Lara I. ([personal profile] exhilaration) wrote2012-06-08 01:14 pm

Deep Thoughts - Day Fourteen

14. When you are stressed, what can you use as an outlet? Why do you think it helps you?

Something repetitive. I dunno. Today I fed my garden. It was EXTREMELY repetitive - scoop plant food, fill watering can, pour on dirt, repeat, repeat, repeat. And it relaxed me. I like to draw designs, like maybe on graph paper, where I repeat a pattern over and over again and at the end I have a whole sheet of this repeating pattern all hand-drawn - that kind of thing really de-stresses me, I guess because it requires a certain amount of thought and attention, which keeps my thoughts and attention away from whatever is causing me stress.

[identity profile] zeegeek.livejournal.com 2012-06-09 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't find gardening relaxing, but yardwork certainly is to me.

[identity profile] lara-everlong.livejournal.com 2012-06-11 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I don't have a yard (that I'm responsible for - we have a backyard but that's sort of for communal use) but I'm starting to have quite a garden!

[identity profile] zeegeek.livejournal.com 2012-06-12 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yes you are!