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Stress Mangement that really works

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#1

For those of you not on thie inside track, try this it really works.

BIKENET STRESS MANAGEMENT SEMINAR-- Just in case you’ve had a rough day, here’s a stress management technique recommended in all the latest psychological texts.

The funny thing is that it really works.

  1. Picture yourself near a stream.

  2. Birds are softly chirping in the cool mountain air.

  3. No one but you knows your secret place.

  4. You are in total seclusion from the hectic place called “the world,”

  5. The soothing sound of a gentle waterfall fills the air with a cascade of serenity.

  6. The water is crystal clear.

  7. You can easily make out the face of the person you’re holding underwater.

  8. See, you’re smiling already.

And some of you are smiling WAY too much!

#2

Ric, IT WORKS!!!

#3

Ahhh…

And I’m not leaving!

#4

Stress: The condition that occurs when you absolutely, positively have to beat the snot out of somebody, and you don’t care who talks about you.

#5

But that works only temporarily. Tends to cause greater stress in the long term.

#6

Hi, What works for me is sitting down to work making NorthAmerican style trees, like

or this

While I listen to Swiss Mountain music. I know stress relieve and work are not usually associated, but hey! Cheers HJ

#7

Hans, very wise , and also very nice trees .
There is an old saying "to plant a tree is to plant the future " or something like that . I wonder if the same applies to making model trees ?
All philosophy aside , my stress management takes the form of sketching , or oil painting . I am not very good at it , but I get immersed in my own little world where nothing bothers me . I think you do the same with your trees . Lucky , aren’t we ?
Mike

#8

Hmm. The forum seems to have blown up the graphic. It’s really a tiny little picture.

#9

…ahhhhhh; I like stress management…it works so well…I just vented the other week, and felt so much better after.
Now I have to start venting off the forum, and use more Sheep Dip as a SM tool, along with venting.

Tools are great as long as you use them in the correct order. In my case I learned that venting before administering the holy water, makes for a less flexable vent.
Reversing the order, is the next test; but from past experience; I find that moderate injections of holy water into ones gizzard, makes for great moments of “Soft Venting”…usually with no damage to ground dwellers or scenery.
True stress management can and will promote moderate consideration, of the lack of intelligence found amungst “Ground dwellers”, but will never solve the problems of life in general.
I sugest that a list of “Stress Management Tools” be started here and now, as a resource for all of our future needs.

My first tool would be a “Fireproof suit”, followed by a good hobby, such as basket weaving, or finger painting.
Third would have to be an emergency pack of several kegs of holy water, and a weekly delivery of a bottle or three of a cheap Merlot.

Please feel free to add to this list as the mood strikes; or whenever you feel like joining Gary and I on some lofty plain/plane/playne…!!!

#10
Fred Mills said:
True stress management can and will promote moderate consideration, of the lack intelligence found amungst "Ground dwellers", but will never solve the problems of life in general. I sugest that a list of "Stress Management Tools" be started here and now, as a resource for all of our future needs.

My first tool would be a “Fireproof suit”, followed by a good hobby, such as basket weaving, or finger painting.
Third would have to be an emergency pack of several kegs of holy water, and a weekly delivery of a bottle or three of a cheap Merlot.

Please feel free to add to this list as the mood strikes; or whenever you feel like joining Gary and I on some lofty plain/plane/playne…!!!


Fr. Fred

One tool that works well in stress avoidance is careful selection of one’s friends. :wink: :slight_smile: You could term that the Twit-detection process.
Another is ignoring certain people completely - don’t I know how hard that is!!! - and letting them stew with/in their own problems.
As one of my friends told me: “Don’t tell them how to do it, submit the article to a mag. The mag pays you and the ignoramuses get to pay for the mag.” Sounds fair to me. (Careful choice of mag is also in order!)

Of course if one could use that riffraff as riprap on a model railway, we’d really have it made. :smiley: :smiley: :confused: :wink:

#11

Hmmmmmm…“venting”. Hmmmmmmm.

That term should be applied to selected gasbags as a description of the expulsion of noxious gases and compounds from a semi-controlled valve residing south of the horizontal midline. Particularly apparent after the overconsumption of distilled and brewed beverages. Is usually misinterpreted as “postings” by those particular gasbags on large scale railroad discussion forums.

#12

I sense a blast of wind coming , nay , a gale even .
'Twas ever thus , the coarse windiness in direct proportion to amount quaffed and the girth attained over time .
I am minded of some medieval scripts I have read , wherein the mention is made of
"muche rude fartynge , and coarse larfinge , these fellowes do besmirch their veree britches when in drinke . Fie unto them I say , beget thee to a better place wherein wholesomeness and goode reign , and the crudities begone "
Good 'ere , innit ?
Mike

#13

#14

Bob ,
That looks like me splitting the slate for my wagons . Nice one .
Mike

#15

Mike,
Yer back! :slight_smile:
Didya git the pooter fixed?
j

#16

…vally good, Mike me lad…keep up the spirits…!!!

#17

John , we’re working on it --what a mess it’s in , golly , poor Timmy is having a hard time of it , perhaps you should exchange notes with him over how thick I am , I’m sure he still can’t quite believe it .
Fr Fred , only diabetes prevents me from joining you on the floor , plenus et horizontalis .
Mike

#18

Mike, me son…

Holy water is the beverage of choice, decided upon, by the reciprient

…If Diet Coke is the beverage of choice, for example; then it is your “Holy Water”

The only obligation a partaker of holy water has; is to taste it regularly, but in moderation.
 Reports of tastings, should be forwarded to Fr.Salmons; the Secretary General of the Branch Railrodian Fellowship. (Fr.Bart Salmons, is also in charge of "THE Bay Of Fundy Farting Clam's" well being, as a member in good sitting of their "Preservation Society").....contact him directly, or through the "Farting Clam" direct email address, which Bart will be only too happy to send to you.

By the way, Mikey, my son. Being over on that fine Island in the clouds, you can take heart that your spiritual well being is looked after by the famous “Archie Bishop, his Gracie; young Deryck Coleman”, the Achie Bishop of Winchester…of the Branch Railroadian Fellowship.

#19

Fred ,
Next time I’m in Winchester , I shall pop in to the Cathedral and give the young man your regards .
I have seen Deryck’s name in the model books over here , where I believe it is more traditional for men of the cloth to indulge in model railways , it being regarded a quaint but respectable pastime verging on a vicarious pleasure but nun the worse for that .
Mike

#20

As Ben Franklin, (“the most dangerous man in America,” according to our friends the Brits) used to say, “Fart proudly!”

"He that is conscious of
A Stink in his Breeches,
is jealous of every Wrinkle
in another’s Nose.

Poor Richard’s Almanac 1751