What's Your Therapy?

[WesCottII]

Getting all the rage in me, out always helps. Perhaps organising a cage fight, or working the punch bag, or just hammering the weights.

 

[KarmaSutra]

Listen to Tool

How could I ever forget this?

Sorry Maynard

 

[Rhoto]

+1 for Tool <3 10,000 Days

I enjoy hitting the bag, good stress reducer, mind focusing.
Driving on the mountain roads, best done at night however.
And exploring local mountain trails work best.
Meditation helps, but can be difficult when you have a lot of stuff on your mind.

 

[thefonz]

How could I ever forget this?

Sorry Maynard

Shame on you!

and I'll add one more thing...going camping

 

[Señor Fingers]

Oooooh, camping! How could I forget that? Or white water rafting!

Keep these coming.. you guys are reminding me of cool sh!t

 

[Aboleo]

I love Aboleo's idea of a DIY deprivation tank.
(You may want to start a new thread for that so you can help out people who want to do this)

Sure. If enough people were interested I'd be happy to take the time to write it out step by step in detail. I kinda' doubt it, however.

Smoke a fattie (very rare these days, but comes in handy)

I'm in love with Mary Jane. I havn't been smoking much lately, but I love getting stoned when I have the opportunity.

Have sex.

I like sex. It's nice.

 

[redspicyflag]

Recently-driving

 

[comic_relief]

lifting
sex - whacking it stopped working for me about a year or two ago.
visiting with the girlfriends
visiting with my friends
cycling
walking - warm weather is better
playing a game or two - Age of Empires 2 is always fun or Mario Kart

comic_relief

 

[iqqi]

Recently-driving

Driving helps me too.

 

[Quiksilver]

paintball

nothing takes the edge off like peppering a kid in the face with paint

 

[KontrollerX]

Doing an hour of cardio- helps regulate the cortisol levels and makes me too tired to stress over anything.

Videogames- the best escapism on the planet.

Long walks during the summer- the fresh air is awesome at times in Michigan. At least when we don't have a random heat wave all too common of Michigan with its random weather anyway.

 

[SinJester]

Ok so Fingz is going to think I'm a stalker or suck-up but...

-Reading WOMS

Seriously I was feeling like total sh!t tonight but after reading it I feel renewed again

 

[DrD77]

Tool is pretty sick. i also like to listen to some other types of metal.

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

I paint, draw, play guitar, sculpt, I get paid to be creative for the most part as it is, but these are passions and I don't really consider them therapy in terms of them being activities I need in order to relax. I want to say lifting too, but I'm only really relaxed afterwards and I think aggression is really a prerequisite for a good workout anyway.

The only thing I do regularly that qualifies as "therapy" is fishing, preferably with a light beer in the other hand.

 

[navyseal2101]

Listen To Music
Lift
Punching Bag
Sex (or solo, sex isnt always available)
Paintball (But local field got shut down so not anymore for a while)
Eat (I know it's a typical American response)
Party!!!!
Possibly g or 2 if ya know what I mean

 

[ValleyDJing]

Marijuana. Then...just about anything is a good time.

 

[The Inside Man]

Yeah mj used to be my escape until it turned into a dungeon of no motivation and stayin in by myself.

I have found that I enjoy all the same things when I am not high, but there is something about weed that makes mundane things more enjoyable.

My escapes are:
music, playing and listening(sublime and CCR are my faves)
fishing(just getting used to the salt water game, caught my first fish in florida over the weekend from shore)
weightlifting(before I hurt my shoulder earlier this year)
boxing (punching bags don't hit back)
soft martial arts like tai chi and yoga
going to the beach(moved to florida)
playing with my min pin
running
offroad biking
talking with old friends on the phone
playing my djembe (african drum)
watching UFCs, esp. in person

 

[Bible_Belt]

Marijuana. Then...just about anything is a good time.

I can't fault anyone for enjoying that.

For me lately, it has been mixed martial arts. If you think you would kick some ass in a fight, like most guys do, go and find your local mma dojo and wrestle with a few dozen guys who all beat the hell out of you with about as much effort as Neo puts into fighting agents in the Matrix sequels. Then start to learn that fighting is an art, and learn that art for yourself. Then when you stumble across someone who gets in your face and wants to fight, you can laugh them off and take the fight out of them with your complete lack of fear. All of this has happened to me in the last month.

 

[MikeYikes122]

For me it's headphones + music.

 

[Nip/Tuck]

When you can't take it anymore and life seems to be dragging you down, what do you do to get out of that funk?

For me nothing works better than

• Listening to and making music
• Dancing (even if its in my undies)
• Bike ride
• Mini-vacation / adventure with my lady
• Night out with the fellas
• Playing with my cat

Any of these things instantly dissolve my worries.

How do you guys deal with the daily grind?

- Lift heavy weights.
- Be an total assh*le.
- Contact sports, F*ck sh*t up!

I don't like people who drink and do drugs to have "fun." Seriously alcohol taste like sh*t if it ain't high quality or mixed.