How to keep one's mental state healthy - my relaxation techniques

The belows are my empirical knowledge of how keep the psychological wellbeing of oneself. I recognized that some people may think the list helpful. Living in modern world makes everyone stressed due to the complicated social structures and the environment. The victims of organized stalking are on the most edge of such pressures. I am hoping that you might remind these methods when you need to get rid of stresses. Unfortunately, the people who really need these advices are usually off the point and cannot even recognize how to keep them mentally functioning. These people do not have chance to look for help nor know what they need to know. By the way, I found out sociopath and organized stalking members might have different strategies than what I addressed below. When they are frustrated, they often act out violently or engage in blaming others for their problems. From such aspects, I think they could be easy to find through simple surveys. How about someone creating “sociopath test”? Oh, I forgot that the famous psychiatrists and psychologists are part of them. But a sociopath psychiatrist can create one as he or she knows what makes oneself a sociopath. If a sociopath psychiatrist does not know oneself as a sociopath through self-analysis, then the one may not create the test.

My suggestion here is a kind of relaxation technique to keep stress out from one's everyday life. If you know how to deal with stress, your mental health should be fine unless you are drugged by chemical weapon or something. I might write about how the chemical weapon likely to work in another posting. Mind control works extremely well when the subject is under high level of stress. That is why cults use several strategies – lack of foods, water, sleep, etc – to keep the subject stressed. If the subject is stressed, the one cannot think logically or evaluate one's state correctly. That is why I explain these techniques to others this time. You do not have to do all these methods. You can pick one or two for your situation. Everyone has different life style, so some of them should fit in your situation.

1. Take 10 minutes break per one hour work – this is from one of my class at DeAnza College about preparation for college study. If you really enjoy your work, you may not need a break, but the subject is something stressful, you need some time to relax. The Mine Sweeper and other short puzzle games may serve this job.

2. Take 2-3 hours off from stressful environment per a day. Watching a movie full time or read a chapter from the book can help you to have time not thinking about something stressful.

3. Take one day off per a week to get relaxed. This method is also in the Bible. An ancient wisdom.

4. The ideal is 3 days off per once a month. This may not applicable for full-time workers. But if your work hour is flexible, take 3 day off from your work. It actually work to regain your creativity. Why 3 days? That is the minimum period to make someone forget about one's work. Otherwise, the person may think about the work during the day. If the one remember it, he or she cannot really get relaxed. I heard that Morita therapy (type of psychiatric therapy named after its founder) may use similar theory. In Morita therapy, the patient is forced to remain bed for several days and do nothing. If the patient get better, he is allowed to engage in light work. Eventually, he is allowed to go back to his regular work. But my suggestion is for healthy individuals.

5. From my experience, taking holidays or long vacation might be harmful for relaxation. It only work with new tasks or works. Like a semester class is an example. You take the class without holiday. Another class you might take is a different work for you. If you want to avoid stress from tasks and you have to go back to finish the same tasks, it is not a vacation but an attempt to escape from the reality.

6. What you should do to get relaxed? Try to find one of these; a national best seller book, a very popular movie DVD, an insomniac computer game, a hobby that you like to spend more time on. The point is keep your brain occupied with something positive and better than your work. I prefer something that can be handled or comes with chronological strain. Watching a 2-hour movie or a ports game on TV can fit into this for a daily basis relaxation. But if your are trying to use 3-day-off method, try to play a computer game or read an exciting book. It helps you to learn something and get motivated to go back to your life from the characters in them. Traveling is also a good idea but it costs more than these. You can borrow a book or a DVD at a library. For computer games, there are free software available to download. If you lose your interest in new things, that is a bad sign for your mental health. Depression may come after – that is a theory. If you can find something interesting, you can get relaxed from participating it. But do not blame me if the book or DVD or a computer game you find is not much interesting than you expected. Read reviews about them first, so you do not get disappointed.