What do you do to relax? Or do you know of any effective ways to relax that are not smoking weed or tobacco?

I find I am much more productive and creative when my mind is relaxed and I can think straight, but smoking weed or cigarettes is not a particularly healthy or practical solution.

Reading helps me; something that's interesting but not too hard to follow. It focuses your mind and cuts out erratic and distracting thoughts.

Also, jazz and meditation.

Meditation, hells ya

Music just stimulates my mind further, and reading is hard to do when not already at rest.

Drinking tea or wine might help. Boozing "to relax" sounds like a slippery slope though.

The most effective solution I have so far is to just go and sit outside on my own and think.

http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/8-simple-ways-relax.html

this site has a few reasonable suggestions

Actually I have tried venting my minds frustrations in the form of shitty poetry, and it works. Very cathartic

im always pretty relaxed.. or apathic whatever you want to call it.

nutmeg.

meditation helps, but generally I can only get myself to meditate when I'm already feeling relaxed and in a good place.

Some songs can calm me right down.  Steve Reich's "Music For 18 Musicians" tops that list.  Sometimes listening to this song on loop helps too.

If it's a sunny day, peel an orange and go lie down somewhere grassy.  If it's a rainy day, find a good place to sit and listen to the raindrops (a skylight is prime).

Make tea.  Not so much for an herbal solution - just to get into that pace - letting the water boil, steeping and slowly cooling off, taking some sips.

Sleeping relaxes, doesn't it?

Haircuts, showers, movies.

Taking a hot bath.

Drinking alcohol doesn't relax me, it just makes me want to go out and party hard.

playing guitar
listening to music
listening to music and internetting

ooh and definetely playing piano

Look at yourself in the mirror and say "God I'm handsome" x 50

Quote from: HorseChestnutClock;1337292Sleeping relaxes, doesn't it?

Not if you're so anxious/scatterbrained that you can't get to sleep

having sex with a man

Meditation, taking naps, sitting around in my backyard.

Yes, Cadillac because the druggie knows all.

Lol Cadillac, what an angsty, ironic avatar you have.

Quote from: a fat ass j of some;1337308I hear smoking marijuana can relieve you of stress. Although, I've also heard the dreams can be something startling as well.

Yes but I'd rather not rely on smoking weed or tobacco, as I have already mentioned

Listen to songs that relax this shit out of me (I have several designated ones), draw, stay up really late, lie on the grass when it's very sunny and beautiful outside or when it's beautiful outside at night.