How Do You Relax?

Playing guitar! 🎸

And really pleasure playing... like not learning a song, but just sitting there with the guitar, letting my mind wander, and improvising on things. It's best when I got my cousin there with me, so we can alternate playing rhythm and lead. If not, a loop pedal works pretty well. 😂

Eating food

Listening to heavy metal music and exploring some new technology.

A walk in the fresh air and a cup of coffee ☕

A good book and a warm cup of tea always does the trick. If I feel very overwhelmed I just stare out the window the trees, the birds, the rain, etc. and drink my tea. But the tea(or coffee) is standard. 🍵☕

• Spending time with our beagle(s), Austin. Unfortunately, we lost River from a diabetic seizure a month before she turned seven.
• Photography; film using my Canon A-1 and my "bucket list camera" Canon New F-1, and digital with my Canon EOS 5D III.
• Listening to Classic Rock, Classic Vinyl, Deep Tracks, Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen channels on SiriusXM.
• Designing and developing C# .NET applications/systems for personal projects; since I'm retired, that's all I do. When I employed, a personal project read the missions schedules that NASA published in Excell and added the events into the calendar of Microsoft Outlook.
• Water-skiing. I've water-skied on three South Carolina lakes, Lake Murray, Lake Greenwood, and Clark Hill Lake, and two Midwestern rivers, Cedar River in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and the Mississippi between the Quad Cities of Davenport, Bettendorf in Iowa, and Moline, Rock Island in Illinois.

Oops! I forgot something.

• Craft beers. The following beers are my favorites from South Carolina craft beer breweries:

1. River Rat Broad River Red Ale
2. River Rat Mourning Stout
3. Steelhands Coffee Lager
4. Palmetto Brewing Expresso
5. Palmetto Brewing GhostRider¹
6. Holy City Brewing Bowens Island Oyster Stout
7. Legal Remedy World Court Mocha Blonde Stout.
8. Steelhands Pecan Brown Ale

1. Palmetto Brewing GhostRider is made with ghost peppers, cherries are used to moderate the heat. It gives one a warm feeling in the chest. ↩

Talking to my friends & family, traveling with them, having fun with them is my source of relaxation and peace.

Yoga, breathing exercises and meditation every day! In addition to gym training 2/3 times a week and spending time playing with my son

Classical music - Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart

I can relax well when I practice Tai Chi Chuan or while gardening

Spending time outside without any devices, simply observing nature and letting my mind wander. I'll always keep a pocket notepad to write any ideas that pop up so they don't clutter my head.

The old and coolest way: Listen to good music, drink a good beer and watch a good sunset 😋

What's relaxing? 😛

Reading or listening to Jazz/Classical

Listening to music is the best way to relax at any time. But when you have rapid thoughts that time do meditation.