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Aussie Pinball Forums => General Chat - Non Pinball/coin-opp Discussion => Topic started by: Pop Bumper Pete on December 09, 2011, 05:49:11 PM
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@@^ How do you deal with stress?
Next year I will start on a big project (more about it later), but it means that I have a lot of stuff going on in my head. :D
Usually I can deal with it, but there are some days that it gets overwhelming.
Unfortunately alcohol disagrees with me !!!, so that is out
So how do you guys deal with stress when it gets too much?
Pete
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I find relaxing in my home arcade is pretty good .. helps me tune out of things for a while.
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Somewhere in nature for me away from the mod cons, preferably in the surf. I tend get alot of ideas bobbling in the surf and allows some clarity considering I do project management as a job and sometimes the brain is in over drive during the week and nights.
If around town / home on a weekend the phone goes in the drawer on Friday arvo and charged up on a Sunday night for the week - hard to do at first but what a relief.
That aside pinball stuff - playing, reading and tinkering as I am not a drinker myself either.
Curious about the big project.....
have a good one.
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Being in the gamesroom,having a few Jacks,playing the pins always chills me out *%*.
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Mostly I come home and cry a lot. !!!
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Mostly I come home and cry a lot. !!!
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I thought you might log on here and ban a few of us plebs &&
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I take up smoking again... back on the fags at the moment
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I thought you might log on here and ban a few of us plebs &&
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Just had two glasses of my father in laws home made vino - makes all cares go away!! So maybe if you don't do alcohol, I know this guy who grows some mean relaxant.......
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I thought you might log on here and ban a few of us plebs &&
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Just had two glasses of my father in laws home made vino - makes all cares go away!! So maybe if you don't do alcohol, I know this guy who grows some mean relaxant.......
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Mate nothing beats some form of exercise and also swimming in the ocean for me
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Mate nothing beats some form of exercise and also swimming in the ocean for me
Actually just did a lap of the block with the kids and Mrs Pinnies4me, then an hour in the pool with the kids - feeling very relaxed now.
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I thought you might log on here and ban a few of us plebs &&
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Just had two glasses of my father in laws home made vino - makes all cares go away!! So maybe if you don't do alcohol, I know this guy who grows some mean relaxant.......
i was wondering how long it would take one of you hippies to say something like that lol :D
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i like breaking things !*! im sure a shrink wouldnt agree but i feel better after
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I thought you might log on here and ban a few of us plebs &&
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Just had two glasses of my father in laws home made vino - makes all cares go away!! So maybe if you don't do alcohol, I know this guy who grows some mean relaxant.......
That's the tonic - the ultimate relaxant. I have the same setup at home, and after 2 glasses of home made Vino, all your cares disappear !
If I'm really stressed - I take a hot shower and thought like "this stress will blow over and in a week from now, I'll be fine again" - just don't take the vino in the shower - tastes bad watered down !
I find I'm stressed when I'm not working on something.
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Alcohol disagrees with me to, but i keep drinking it!
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never to late to take up hard drugs... some games of pinball do it for me though
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Exercise is really the best form of stress relief that I have ever found.
Leave the phone at home go for a 5k run at your own pace or a goods 40 minute walk and it really does clear your head, but if you can build up a sweat for about 10 or 15 minutes you normally get a bit of an endorphin release in the brain and that feels good. For some reason the stuff that doesn't need to be stressed about just seems to float away.
Also set a time of the day when you can switch off, so you can say ok its 8.30 whatever hasn't been done yet will have to wait until Tomorrow because its my time now ( unless of course the kids a sick or something like that ) and then turn on your favourite show or chuck on some music , usually works for me.
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I play the sax and that is a great way to channel unwanted stresses, either playing or listening to music unwinds me, however jamming with my bandmates, we all love Pink Floyd, is the best way to chill
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I work in a industry where u see peoples houses burgled, businesses wrecked and peoples lives damaged badly by thieves/fraudsters on a daily basis. Its all bad news usually when I arrive to sell/install security systems and camera systems etc. After 17 years, I still cant get over how cruel people can be by breaking into/stealing/vandalising everything people own and work for. You always feel and see the stress these victims get from no good law breakers etc. Hence I usually have a quick fuse towards anyone bodgy.
Best way to de-stress is to play a pinball game in a quiet room, take ya time and just enjoy the audio and the little things the pinball machine has to offer, or just read about pinballs and study every model ever made on Internet Pinball Data Base etc. Next is a good few hours of Star Trek Voyager or Star Trek Enterprise with a little Stargate Atlantis thrown in. *%*
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never to late to take up hard drugs... some games of pinball do it for me though
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drugs are not the answer...just part of the question.. ()
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I play the sax and that is a great way to channel unwanted stresses, either playing or listening to music unwinds me, however jamming with my bandmates, we all love Pink Floyd, is the best way to chill
If u can play the theme song to the Benny Hill show on the sax, u have my vote. (if u ask me who Benny Hill is, then we are different ages.lol %.%)
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Rub one out
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Rub one out
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I have a deal with the missus, every second week I get out in the bush on the dirtbike.
It really helps to take my mind off dealing with the kids and life in general. Focusing just on riding for 5 or 6 hours and a good adrenaline rush whilst I'm at it.
It ends up being like a drug, if I miss out one fortnight, the next fortnight really drags, and the missus can see it and understands I need some man time, really clears my head *%*
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I play the sax and that is a great way to channel unwanted stresses, either playing or listening to music unwinds me, however jamming with my bandmates, we all love Pink Floyd, is the best way to chill
If u can play the theme song to the Benny Hill show on the sax, u have my vote. (if u ask me who Benny Hill is, then we are different ages.lol %.%)
I know who Benny Hill is, where is that little bald guy to smack on the head when you need him? I think that was one of the ways Benny himself relieved stress %.% I can play the theme music unfortunately when I do I don't get the scantily clad female forms running around me like Benny did ^&^
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Get some exercise. Run or walk. Doing my 20th 5k of 2011 tomorrow and it's supposed to get down to 17 degrees overnight. I'm gonna freeze! Oh well :)
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I work in the property indusrty & deal with stress by having a few cans bundy rums, playing my arcades/pins and chilling out to some music.
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I work in a industry where u see peoples houses burgled, businesses wrecked and peoples lives damaged badly by thieves/fraudsters on a daily basis. Its all bad news usually when I arrive to sell/install security systems and camera systems etc. After 17 years, I still cant get over how cruel people can be by breaking into/stealing/vandalising everything people own and work for. You always feel and see the stress these victims get from no good law breakers etc. Hence I usually have a quick fuse towards anyone bodgy.
Best way to de-stress is to play a pinball game in a quiet room, take ya time and just enjoy the audio and the little things the pinball machine has to offer, or just read about pinballs and study every model ever made on Internet Pinball Data Base etc. Next is a good few hours of Star Trek Voyager or Star Trek Enterprise with a little Stargate Atlantis thrown in. *%*
I get broken into at work every second year (I guess they here there is a lot of dough in a pie shop!), pisses me off, but I can deal with it
Just finished rewatching ST Voyager
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Rub one out
10 out of 10 great answer that's funny $#$ ^^^
Oh and just think how worst off some other people are and that puts it all in some sort of prospective.
Peter
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Oh and just think how worst off some other people are and that puts it all in some sort of prospective.
Peter
Gorgar 1, I am not complaining, I like my life, I know I am in a better position than many others
I like my life to be full, I like having something to move towards.
But what I am moving to is a new to me, to break free of the position where I have found myself for the last 20 years
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Oh and just think how worst off some other people are and that puts it all in some sort of prospective.
Peter
Gorgar 1, I am not complaining, I like my life, I know I am in a better position than many others
I like my life to be full, I like having something to move towards.
But what I am moving to is a new to me, to break free of the position where I have found myself for the last 20 years
You starting up a massage parlor Pete &&
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Works every time
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You starting up a massage parlor Pete &&
How did you know?
Still need to find a cheap pool table for the foyer <.>
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Oh and just think how worst off some other people are and that puts it all in some sort of prospective.
Peter
Gorgar 1, I am not complaining, I like my life, I know I am in a better position than many others
I like my life to be full, I like having something to move towards.
But what I am moving to is a new to me, to break free of the position where I have found myself for the last 20 years
Calm down wasn't having a go at you-I was talking from my prospective that's all as your question was "how do you(as in others) deal with stress" and that's my answer ok-Gotta go im getting stressed *!@
Peter
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When I can get there...downt to once a week...working on twice a week...Golf Golf and more Golf!
Had the same thing with surfing when I was younger.Too unfit to surf now...working on a comeback though..lol.
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Bugger I missed it #@#
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As Neil from the Young Ones would say " Heavy, heavy, Heavy.. WOW man.. "