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How do you calm yourself down?

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Racenilatr
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States2756 Posts
December 21 2008 15:31 GMT
#1
I have a very hard time calming myself down. I always have to constantly be thinking about something, doing something, or just something something something. The calm state of mind is so ever elusive. When I need a break from starcraft, I don't just take a break, I have to download or upload or compress convert or do some background task just so that I'm not wasting my time being away from my computer. I go take a nap or something to calm me down, but I am never quite calm down when I can just sit and stare at my computer for like 1 minute before doing something. How do you guys get into a calm, submissive state of mind/being?
Bosu
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3247 Posts
December 21 2008 15:33 GMT
#2
I usually kill people, cut them up, put them in garbage bags, and dump the bodies in the ocean.
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LordWeird
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States3411 Posts
December 21 2008 15:35 GMT
#3
I smoke a cigarette sometimes.

Also, I breathe in with my mouth slowly for ten seconds, then breathe out slowly for ten seconds (with my mouth yet again). It helps slow your heart down, therefore calming you down. Try it out.
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Jathin
Profile Blog Joined February 2005
United States3505 Posts
December 21 2008 15:37 GMT
#4
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Locke.
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Israel562 Posts
December 21 2008 15:38 GMT
#5
do yoga
Sanity.
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States704 Posts
December 21 2008 15:39 GMT
#6
smoke weed and cigarettes. just got high. funny this thread is here.
Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-21 15:46:07
December 21 2008 15:42 GMT
#7
I'm always in a super calm content state and if I seem angry or like I'm bitching about something it's all just an act trying to convey some fake emotions. That is unless I'm drunk and someone tries to rip me off then ANGER.

I don't think your question can be solved unless with drugs. Everyones different and some people just can't chill the fuck out for some reason. There are plenty of temporary fixes but that anxiety will always creep back up on some people.

edit: actually I lied sometimes I go into a sick state of tilt when I'm waiting around for something that I feel I shouldn't have to be waiting for. Wow that erks the shit out of me

but in general yeah I think a very healthy lifestyle is the only natural fix

anything else we should know about?
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D10
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Brazil3409 Posts
December 21 2008 15:42 GMT
#8
Weed and cigs, but im a very calm person (maybe im smoking too much ?)
" We are not humans having spiritual experiences. - We are spirits having human experiences." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
H
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
New Zealand6138 Posts
December 21 2008 15:48 GMT
#9
On December 22 2008 00:42 Rekrul wrote:
I'm always in a super calm content state and if I seem angry or like I'm bitching about something it's all just an act trying to convey some fake emotions.


same way for me, the only time I'm loud is when I'm being an asshole or putting on an act of being pissed off

come to think of it everyone probably thinks I get really angry, but I guess it would be really weird if I just appeared apathetic to everything
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mmgoose
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
769 Posts
December 21 2008 15:52 GMT
#10
On December 22 2008 00:31 Racenilatr wrote:
I have a very hard time calming myself down. I always have to constantly be thinking about something, doing something, or just something something something. The calm state of mind is so ever elusive. When I need a break from starcraft, I don't just take a break, I have to download or upload or compress convert or do some background task just so that I'm not wasting my time being away from my computer. I go take a nap or something to calm me down, but I am never quite calm down when I can just sit and stare at my computer for like 1 minute before doing something. How do you guys get into a calm, submissive state of mind/being?


methinks you have adhd, check with your psychiatrist.

or stop taking ecstasy.
And you know if a grandmother had a penis she would be a grandfather.
thoraxe
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States1449 Posts
December 21 2008 15:52 GMT
#11
GO OUTSIDE.
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jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6639 Posts
December 21 2008 15:53 GMT
#12
Hmm I don't ever have to do this, I'm generally pretty calm. One of the few things that makes me angry is loosing consecutive BW games due to stupid mistakes and the way I rectify it is playing till I win.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions | aka Probert[PaiN] @ iccup / godlikeparagon @ twitch | my BW stream: http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/jello_biafra
poilord
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Germany3252 Posts
December 21 2008 16:02 GMT
#13
Wow, if what you write is true you're spending wayyyyy too much time in front of your computer. Have you tried going without it completely for a day or two?

and this:
On December 22 2008 00:52 thoraxe wrote:
GO OUTSIDE.

Elvin_vn
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
Vietnam2038 Posts
December 21 2008 16:04 GMT
#14
I am usually very calm.

Even if I get angry then I must have a really really good reason to do so. So I'm not afraid to express my emotion.
do not agrue with idiots, they will pull you down to their level and beat you with their experiences
MarklarMarklar
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Fiji1823 Posts
December 21 2008 16:05 GMT
#15
getting laid
gettin drunk
getting high
stuffin myself with food so my brain gets numb from being so full.
working out
hello there
Nytefish
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United Kingdom4282 Posts
December 21 2008 16:12 GMT
#16
Well doing something that physically tires you works well, but if you're trying to calm down before playing a game of bw that's not really going to work.

The secret to staying clam is to not care so much.
No I'm never serious.
MiniRoman
Profile Blog Joined September 2003
Canada3953 Posts
December 21 2008 16:14 GMT
#17
smoking weed stills the mind.

when im frustrated i peace out and take a shower or a long poop
Nak Allstar.
Racenilatr
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States2756 Posts
December 21 2008 16:24 GMT
#18
wtf@the weed.....how abuot something actually healthy?
D10
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Brazil3409 Posts
December 21 2008 16:30 GMT
#19
On December 22 2008 01:24 Racenilatr wrote:
wtf@the weed.....how abuot something actually healthy?


ok, try some rigged weed like hydroponic.
" We are not humans having spiritual experiences. - We are spirits having human experiences." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Physician *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4146 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-21 18:09:59
December 21 2008 16:30 GMT
#20
from a reply in another post, I wrote this ..

On November 22 2008 14:19 Physician wrote:
I have never actually been depressed for which I am very thankful. The closest thing that comes to it, is feeling between uneasiness and being pissed off - when I can't quite identify what triggered it (when I can, I try to deal with problem and it usually improves the mood). When that happens if I can't find a reason to explain the mood, I listen to tangram and mellow out usually under 8 minutes.. And because I've have done it so often since I was young, if I can't listen to it for whatever reason, I will close my eyes, and replay it in my mind - it works almost like a reflex and I usually manage to settle my emotions into a pleasant neutral.

- it works for me, basically you condition a yourself to a mood state, using a piece of music as trigger.
"I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities...."
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