Life habits suggestion thread

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Boem wrote:

t's more about suggesting a habit you find helps you.

I'm going of the assumption if somebody else value's the habit there is some importance in it.
So i can test them out and see how i find them and so can anybody else reading the thread.

The sky is the limit.

Right.

I'll start small: Epsom salts foot soaks are really nice. A cup of salts, A teaspoon of carrier oil such as almond or even olive, some orange oil (if you have it), hot water in a tub large enough to go up to your ankles in. I do it while playing maps about once a week for 30 minutes. Pumice your feet afterwards, it's great.

Especially as you're running a lot. It'll feel really good.

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Altnaharra wrote:

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erdelyii wrote:

Dumb Things - Paul Kelly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFosUj6A22c&list=PL9F5B80E56D446962
^ Whoops, slipped! Wrong Kelly.

*Don't forget to laugh,

Spoiler

Especially at yourself every now and then.

Haha, yeah.

Absolutely. Now and then is ... (wait for it) ...

a healthy habit.

Thank you thank you I'm here all week.

Eh, well, lets add more advice to the list. Here are a few tidbits I do to keep myself healthy.

1) Make your bed when you wake up in the morning. It's not a big deal, but if you start off the day doing something productive. You usually end up productive.

2) Do the little things first. So things don't pile up.

3) Talk positively about yourself in a mirror. Weird, but it can work wonders.

4) Don't avoid people too much. You'll never learn how to properly communicate with others, and its a rough start if you have kids.

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erdelyii wrote:

Right.

I'll start small: Epsom salts foot soaks are really nice. A cup of salts, A teaspoon of carrier oil such as almond or even olive, some orange oil (if you have it), hot water in a tub large enough to go up to your ankles in. I do it while playing maps about once a week for 30 minutes. Pumice your feet afterwards, it's great.

Especially as you're running a lot. It'll feel really good.

If nothing else, that sounds amazing.

Will give it a go later this week :D, my feet are dry as fuck since i run around barefoot in the house a lot. And when i use soks i usually shred them in about a month or six. I assume that's because of the callus(= what a weird word, had to search for it) and friction when i do use shoes.



I remember my grandmother doing that often btw, filling a feet tub with boiling hot water and salt, i don't think she used oils though.
Then letting her feet sit for like 20 mins while drawing pictures in the kitchen.

Hadn't thought about it in a long time, cheers.

Peace,

-Boem-

Nice additions RPGlitch.

@ Boem: Cheers, mate.

Remember to use Epsom salts, not kitchen salt, and a pumice stone of good quality, nice and rough. If you've not done something like it in forever the amount of skin that's gonna slough off might be quite big. Maybe start with 15 minutes soak. Not sure, I guess avoid full prune feet and rubbing too hard with the stone. Chip away at it, over time. Callus can hurt I think when it's on nerve areas or something? It can crack, too. If you have cracks then cream with uric acid in it is good.

I go around in bare feet a lot, too. Love walking on the sand in bare feet, that's another one, just taking off shoes and earthing all the charge buildup on the wet sand. Dirt works too, but carpet no.

Use sorbolene cream afterwards, too, a light coating. or even coconut oil, good for feet.

All the ingredients aside from the orange essential oil (that you don't really need) are cheap. I'm not surprised your grandmother did it, at least I mean the simple, old things are often really solid for self-care.

Enjoy :)

Lift hard and heavy. Stop eating processed food. Get enough sleep.

If you do just this you're better off than 90% of the people around you.

Reading that post about your chest in the shower sounds like you had fun writing it. I guess on topic of exercise, it's always good to stretch before and after.

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Xavderion wrote:

Get enough sleep.

Close enough

Once a month drink 0.6 liter of Scotch of your choice alone and at 2 AM look at the city from your window/balcony and ask yourself what's next in your future.

Then just accept the answer and proceed. You have a 0.6 L to look forward to next month.

https://youtu.be/aeRsLPQannM

I recommend Ballantines standard but Grants will do in a pinch as well. No ice. Don't use single malts, that would be a sacrilege.

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JohnGrammaticus wrote:

Once a month drink 0.6 liter of Scotch of your choice alone and at 2 AM look at the city from your window/balcony and ask yourself what's next in your future.

Then just accept the answer and proceed. You have a 0.6 L to look forward to next month.

https://youtu.be/aeRsLPQannM

I recommend Ballantines standard but Grants will do in a pinch as well. No ice. Don't use single malts, that would be a sacrilege.

I like this advice.

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Charan wrote:

This is a thorny twist because you don't dole out silly life tips to someone you know (or even suspect) has depressed thinking going on, at least not of the sort you're describing here. And, as you also noted, that's the domain of a trained, objective professional. I feel very slightly blindsided by this weighty response to my japery, but not so much that I'd recant my stance.

No need to recant your stance, at all. Your post was a ripper. I think humour's great, and no need for kid gloves. I'd say just to include the perspective that I shared, is all.
I said also objective, [and] trained professionals. That can be lived experience [peer] workers, too, or a counsellor.

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Altneaharra wrote:

You can't help people looking into the brink if you've never looked yourself.

I disagree that you can't help people looking into the brink if you've never looked yourself, and I'd add tipped over. That would rule out most MH professionals with anything needing more than six years' study. They have their uses, as things currently stand.

Agreed, that is helpful for people to know someone with a lived experience of MH challenges is an expert but not an Expert at all, just somewhere on their own journey who gets it and holds hope, but won't say they understand exactly what you are going through, because that's never true.

I think it's about people who are in the throes of a difficult mental and emotional journey understanding the limits of what such non-been there people have to offer and making the most of that, filtering out the stuff that just makes it worse, more alienating. "At least...", "Can't you just ...", etc etc Which is hard when we are stuck and self-doubting. But - enough from me for now.

/earnest.

Back to Charan, I'd say most appropriate for the forum is exactly your response.

Way better than Jordan Peterson's shitty list, mate.

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鬼殺し wrote:

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Imagine how much better the world would be if more people listed Chewbacca as a role model.

My best advice to the young crowd: Figure out what you really wanted to do at age 12, and dedicate your being into making it happen. Put in the time and effort to make it happen, then put in more time and effort, then put in some time to learn what exactly it will take to make it happen outside of that time and effort. And yes, even if you want to be a writer.

My best advice to everyone else: Take 30-60 minutes a day, every day, to take a simple walk. If you can walk through some woods, all the better, but the important thing here is the walking. It's a good way to stretch out, get the blood pumping, some fresh air, and an excuse to get away form it all for a bit. And yes, it's okay to leave the electronic leashes at home. Short of full-scale nuclear war, the world will go on without you for an hour.