Are you good at relaxing? If so , what do you do to relax?!

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I spend so much time in the evenings scrolling on my phone, I’m sure I could be using the time better to properly relax - do most people enjoy relaxing? What do you do when you relax?!

Meditation, breathwork reading

I find scrolling to be quite relaxing!

Other than that:

• reading on the sofa
• cooking/baking while listening to Radio 4
• going for a walk
• doing the crossword
• tending to my houseplants
• drinking wine in front of the telly

We've got a window that looks over the garden, I spend a lot of time on the new reclining sofa staring at the flowers and the bees - occasionally accompanied by the cat or dog.

Or sitting on the garden bench listening to the bees.

I've just bought a hammock - so it's obviously started raining - but when it stops raining I intend to lie in the hammock and look at the clouds and listen to the bees.

Sounds blissful.

Paint my nails while watching Youtube
Game (in bed, on the Switch)
Read a book

I find having a drink and/or lighting a candle adds to the relaxing atmosphere.

I'm not particularly good at relaxing, but the one thing that does reliably calm me is being outdoors or around nature - going for a walk, tending to my houseplants, doing a bit of gardening, playing with my animals, even some outdoor maintenance or DIY.

I'm active but restful at the same time, IYSWIM: it seems to help my brain enter a sort of 'fugue state' that I can't access from the likes of yoga or meditation.

Playing the piano

I flake out in the conservatory with the dog and a very large G&T.

Watch TV with my back massager & camomile tea

Scrolling is relaxing to me!

Otherwise I read, listen to music, play a computer game, listen to a podcast, binge watch a box set, flick through Rightmove spending my surely-imminent lottery win millions...I'm very good at doing very little.

I do pilates, play some piano, arrange the house so it looks nice.

Going to the gym- it's the only 'me' time I get.

I watch TV, read or do crosswords and number puzzles. I find faffing on my phone quite relaxing too though.

Writing a diary/journal with the radio on in the background
Embroidery or knitting
Watching TV or playing on the PS

I love to read. But only really get into it when on holiday.

Gardening, reading, learning a new language (Duolingo app so phone but not scrolling) or listening to music. Also love a good binge boxset

I'm good at relaxing. I do these -

Listen to music
Read books
Do puzzle books
Paint or draw
Ring friends
Watch a good film or drama
Bake a cake
Sort out drawers
Do the ironing
Play card games or chess with my husband
Look at old photos (actual printed photos)

Refilling jars of pasta ect.
Folding towels/sheets/laundry
Reading books from my childhood (I'm an academic, so need to read something that I don't have to 'think' about to relax)
Wrap presents
Crafting with DD
Walking Ds in buggy
Sitting with DH in silence having a cup of coffee on Shabbos morning

(Apart from lots of scrolling) I read, knit, crochet, spin (on a spinning wheel), do cryptic crosswords, learn a new language, listen to podcasts.

I leave dh downstairs with the kid/s and have an hour to myself upstairs in my bedroom like I’m still a teenager. I can be doing anything I’m in the mood for - reading, sorting clothes out, painting toenails, texting friends, watching tv. It doesn’t matter. It gives my brain a chance to chill out.

I knit, bake, read but most of all I procrastinate about doing those things whilst scrolling and binge watching something.

I'm brilliant at relaxing - it's the get up and go I sometimes lack!

To relax I read, listen to music, do yoga, watch tv, sort through and rearrange my beauty products stash, go to art exhibitions and eat cake.

Have a bath..... I used to be relaxed when I was younger now 1 day out of 2 I am angsty as anything it is horrible.

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