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  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 13,367 Disability Gamechanger
    @endowarrierqueen96 I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one that likes a little drink to relax with. (I also like homemade biscuits.)
  • Eliz31abeth
    Eliz31abeth Community member Posts: 34 Courageous
    This has been a lovely thread to read. I used to have several hobbies but i had a big life event resulting in PTSD, loss of my job and then career .i ruminate constantly..
    A friend sent me a beginners diamond drill art kit..i was hooked within 15minutes! I did super easy ones to start and now do about an hour a day and listen to podcasts and am completely absorbed like ive not been with anything else. I plan to frame and donate to charities for raffle gifts
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,911 Disability Gamechanger
    @Eliz31abeth that's sounds realy cool  ? 
  • csno01
    csno01 Community member Posts: 387 Pioneering
    That sounds really good @Eliz31abeth
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,550 Disability Gamechanger
    I just switch off by meditating.

    “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.” 
    ― Dalai Lama XIV

  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Community member Posts: 16,007 Disability Gamechanger
    edited January 2021
    Hi @leeCal - just the person. I've been looking for your link to meditation, which I hope you still have. I think it would be really useful for the recent 'Coping with stress thread.' Please post it on there or send it to Tori_Scope , thank you. :)
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,488 Disability Gamechanger
    Yes, please do comment or send to one of the team @leeCal! It'd be a great addition.
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  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,550 Disability Gamechanger
    edited January 2021
    I’m hoping this was the link , it’s pertinent anyway @chiarieds
    https://www.lionsroar.com/mindful-living-thich-nhat-hanh-on-the-practice-of-mindfulness-march-2010/

    this is another method 
    https://www.lionsroar.com/category/how-to/

    Personally i find counting breaths out from one to ten then one again and so on most helpful, once you’ve reached a calm abiding state you can slip into meditating on a subject and back again to counting breaths quite easily. The idea is to maintain a calmness, like the tuning of a guitar string, not too tight, not too loose. I started with five minutes and increased gradually to half an hour. Often we try to carry out an exercise for too long and because it interferes with our everyday lives too much we discontinue, which is why I limit my sessions to a half hour which I can afford and which I find repeatable.

    “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.” 
    ― Dalai Lama XIV

  • MarkGibbons1
    MarkGibbons1 Community member Posts: 19 Courageous
    I listen to heavy metal and rock music while I read about ancient aliens/gods/cultures and ancient astronauts. Am interested in pre history which these books are proving that we were visited in the past by aliens who are ancestors thought were God's. These two past times really relax me and chill me out!!
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,911 Disability Gamechanger
    @MarkGibbons1 I like heavy rock thats interesting the pre history books I belive in the unknown   its an interesting subject  thsnk you for sharing 
  • MarkGibbons1
    MarkGibbons1 Community member Posts: 19 Courageous
    @MarkGibbons1 I like heavy rock thats interesting the pre history books I belive in the unknown   its an interesting subject  thsnk you for sharing 
    I've always believed that we were here for some reason and always  known the pyramids weren't built by Egyptians that some older civilisations built or aliens. Your right lisa it is interesting 
  • Seanchai
    Seanchai Community member Posts: 411 Pioneering
    I enjoy learning five string banjo , that's six months I have been learning . I spend a couple of hours ( roughly ) a day ( 20 minute sessions ) .I,m learning bluegrass and flailing style.  It has stopped me going crazy ????)
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,488 Disability Gamechanger
    That sounds great @Seanchai :) It must be nice to see (or hear!) the progress you've been making too. 
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  • Seanchai
    Seanchai Community member Posts: 411 Pioneering
    Hi @leeCal.... I agree that meditation is a great way to relax . I used to attend tinnitus clinics regularly and I tried many different things to help my tinnitus ...from Reiki to hypnosis and everything in between , even Hoppi candles ( you stick the candle in your ear and put a light to it ) nothing ever worked to relieve my 24/7 jet engine tinnitus in my right ear ( the tinnitus also stole my hearing in my right ear)  ?? I have 20% hearing in my left ear , so I cannot complain .?
    Meditation helped me, to a certain degree ??
  • Eliz31abeth
    Eliz31abeth Community member Posts: 34 Courageous
    leeCal said:
    I’m hoping this was the link , it’s pertinent anyway @chiarieds
    https://www.lionsroar.com/mindful-living-thich-nhat-hanh-on-the-practice-of-mindfulness-march-2010/

    this is another method 
    https://www.lionsroar.com/category/how-to/

    Personally i find counting breaths out from one to ten then one again and so on most helpful, once you’ve reached a calm abiding state you can slip into meditating on a subject and back again to counting breaths quite easily. The idea is to maintain a calmness, like the tuning of a guitar string, not too tight, not too loose. I started with five minutes and increased gradually to half an hour. Often we try to carry out an exercise for too long and because it interferes with our everyday lives too much we discontinue, which is why I limit my sessions to a half hour which I can afford and which I find repeatable.
    Leecal - many thanks for posting the thay link. For years i have known the benefits but struggled to incorporate it into daily life - i believe i  was just making it too structured and difficult. This link you have posted is excellent.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,550 Disability Gamechanger
    You’re welcome @Eliz31abeth, I hope you find it helpful ?

    @Seanchai I suddenly had a tenfold increase in my tinnitus some five years ago, around 80db! In both ears. I used to play bass guitar in a few local bands and of course I was situated next to the drummer mostly and they were always fond of crashing cymbals. I also worked with power tools without earmuffs and in one particularly noisy injection moulding factory when I was young, again without ear defenders.

    At first I thought I was going to die of something, perhaps a tumour or something but I had an MRI scan and they found nothing sinister and so I was told it was incurable .ive tried using a masking sound etc but nothing really helps. There were times when I thought the noise would drive me mad.  However, though I never thought I would ive actually got used to the jet engines and the white noise actually helps me to block out interfering sounds when I’m meditating. In this way I’ve incorporated the sound into my life and accepted it as, at least sometimes, helpful! Since I can’t cure it I must endure it and I’ve managed to see it as a reasonably positive thing. I’m not saying I’d rather keep the sound if there was a cure but since there isn’t a remedy for this malady then why not make the best of it. 

    “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.” 
    ― Dalai Lama XIV

  • woodbine
    woodbine Community member Posts: 11,519 Disability Gamechanger
    You have to laugh at some people deriding PC when many will be screaming (and rightly so) about disability equality.
    You can't really have one without the other.
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  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,911 Disability Gamechanger
    Every one has some wonderful ways to relax and interesting  ways its nice to hear what people say and do 
  • Seanchai
    Seanchai Community member Posts: 411 Pioneering
    So sorry @leeCal to know you have it in both ears ....I,m not sure I could manage it in both ears . A few years ago I went completely deaf ( both ears....apart from my tinnitus) I could not hear a single thing anybody was saying . I went through the same process as I did a few years before . Doctor , wait on specialist appointment, then attending ithe appointment and then waiting on a date for an MIR scan and then waiting on the results .  .... while waiting g for the results of my scan a little bit of hearing came back to my left ear ....and with a bluetooth hearing aid I can hear people taking in the same room ...as long as there is nobody else talking or radio or TV going in the background . I had/ have a brilliant care worker / social worker who helped me immensely with my hearing problems . He visited me and asked what my hobbies were. I told him I used to enjoy shortwave radio and airplane scanners but now I cannot hear them . I cannot thank Richard enough for all he done for me/us . He got a device that goes under the mattress just incase i cannot hear the smoke alarm ( this device shakes me out of bed if the smoke alarm goes off.) ?? He then got me a loop for the living room so I can hear the TV and also a microphone on it ei I can pick up someone talking to me ..he also got a loop device that goes around my neck , plugs into my scanners and send the sound directly to my hearing aid on the loop setting ...I cannot thank the fella enough for all he done for me.
  • Holly35
    Holly35 Community member Posts: 24 Courageous
    I dare not have a bath because the combi-boiler I have is ancient and I'm worried it will break down especially with the GCH on and my landlord terrifies me, I dare not ask for a new one so I use the expensive and unreliable electric shower even when it's cold. 

    I relax with hot chocolate and I drop 85% dark chocolate pieces into it so it melts and I have a very chocolatey drink. I love eating dates too and I dunk them in sometimes for chocolatey dates. 

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