Earth_Girl wrote:

allissun wrote:

Earth_Girl wrote:I am trying really hard to focus on other things, it's difficult. Need to get back into woodworking like I was last year, meditation, more hiking and getting outside. Because all the worrying and planning isn't going to stop collapse. Depending on how bad it gets, I don't think I'd want to stick around anyway, so I gotta enjoy what kind of life I can make for myself now.

I am relatively new to doom, compared to the other mods anyways, most definitely, and so have possibly been having to process a lot in the last couple of years, and more specifically, in the past year. I think just about everyone who is Peak Oil aware has felt more of an intensity recently as events over the last year seem to have increased in breadth and in depth. I notice fewer jokes and humor, as the big ass Collapse giant and all the aspects of Collapse seem to be looking straight at us now. I don't see a lot of people talking about that at a personal, emotional or spiritual level so much, but I feel it in the silence, and I'm not talking the msm kind of silence (lack of reporting): what is it? Worry, stress, impatience, tension (hey, is anyone here getting really tense shoulders? I am. That never, ever happened to me before ), sometimes too much focus on events... and it goes on and on. What did I forget?

So what I have found after talking about it is to do some physical work. It really does help. Try to book certain activities into each day. Sweeping the kitchen floor doesn't count for hard physical work. And then, like you say, Earth_Girl, something calming like meditation. I do yoga, but not enough. I do it while I garden (I have a humungous garden), but it wasn't enough so now I go once a week to a class. There I get to practice with some really great women in the community here. That's been a month now. By the day before class I can just feel how much I need the class to release stress. So I realized one class a week isn't cutting it along with my private practice. I am going to sign up for 2 more classes per week with a different teacher. It sounds fine, but it really, really does help with the overall stress and grounding and state of mind.
When I finish the practice, I feel like I am floating on clouds.

Did you know, for example, that anger and emotions can be stored in the body? And that certain body twists can release stored anger? It is true.We all need to twist and shout


Also, I have 3 active things that I come up with every day that I need to finish that day. That helps too. If it's harvesting and processing all the ripe tomatoes and herbs (I have about 50 tomatoe plant), and processing them that day (canning, freezing, making pizza sauce, eating them, whatever...) I have to do it. These are really good "sights". I just had the funniest idea... of doing a doomer-yoga morning video. That would be funny as hell, but I think it would be a great idea too! We can drink coffee and de-stress to doom-yoga I should probably move this post somewhere else... a little drifty?

Maybe. How about "Survival & Sanity: Focusing on Other Things When Doom is Too Much" in Trauma Center: Coping With Doom?

I know that one thing which works for me, is woodworking while listening to rock music. Rock is my favorite type of music, like a muse, and it inspires me. Woodworking is something I love to do because I get a great sense of satisfaction from the pieces I create, and I've sold a few for a small profit. Which is why I should get back into it, in order to de-stress from doom, and also make some extra income for bills and preps.

Would like to get into gardening more, I have somewhat of a green thumb, but I don't have the land...but, my dad is letting the neighbor grow some tomato plants next to his barn, so maybe I could tend to them instead in the spring.