Social Media, Pillowforts, and Watching Pastors Do Yoga

Hi world! Intros are overrated. Lets just start. This blog post is already long enough.

Life is insanely busy. Especially as internals approach, and as we start getting nearer to the end of the term and the stress starts to set in. It is important to just chill out every once and a while, and just do literally nothing. I mean, I dont have internals but all my friends do and they are having a major stressfest atm. Everyone is a bit down at the moment, and super tired so I thought I would bring forth my tips.

TO CLARIFY

I am writing this blogpost when I have slept like five hours last night and the night before and been awake for wayyyy too long, so if this is rambly, and/or makes no sense, dont judge me.

 Everyone needs to stop and do nothing sometimes, so I have compiled a list of five ways to do nothing, without social media. Because social media is too stressful (atleast for me), and stress is the opposite of what we are going for here. Leggo.

Number One: Is it sunny? Great. Go outside and lay on the grass. Make a daisy chain, sing a song to yourself. Cloud watch. If you dont have grass, find grass. Or make do. My house has the tiniest bit of grass, and is visible from everyone in the street, but I still lie there sometimes. It is great.

Number Two: Is it rainy? Brilliant. This is your excuse to create a pillow fort in your room with blankets and pilliows and read a book and listen to the rain. Build a fort! Or find every blanket you can in the house and wrap yourself in it. If you dont want to read, you could draw, or just cuddle in blankets. Either way, this is amazing.

Number Three: Audiobooks. No needed explanation. They are great. Sometimes we procrastinate going to bed because it seems boring, or we are stuck in the moment of work (even though those thoughts arent the same at 6:30am when your alarm clock goes off). They are portable, and through AUDIBLE.COM you can get a free 30 day trial! (JK. Definitely not sponsored yet haha. Although that is like every youtuber ever.) If you decide you want to sleep but know you are so tired you wont be able to, put on an audiobook. Whether you sleep or not, if you enjoy the book it is a win-win situation. Technically audiobooks are cheating because they are ON your device, but if you swear that you wont do anything with that notification sitting on your screen, we will let this one slide. It also works well with #2 :).

Number four: Bare with me here: YOGA. Some people will disagree and/or judge me on this, but there is this thing called holy yoga, which basically a whole lot of snobby ladies go into awkward positions and tell you about Jesus. I have done it with my mum a few times, and you will either enjoy it because it is brilliant, or because you like to watch pastors get into funny positions. Either way, it is incredibly enjoyable. If you arent flexible, just watch them! It is rediculously funny while being soothing. It is a stupidly brilliant combination. Some people find it amazing because they actually like yoga, but I am more in it for the giggles. They also have a whole lot of quality bible verses in them too, so if you are interested in that totally check it out. It is worth it.

Number five: Make tea. Tea is amazing. I dont even really like tea that much, but being able to hold the warm mug in your hands and dip the teabag in and out with the little string is all worth it. Again, I will be judged for this. But if you really arent into the thrill of just making the tea, i reccommend experimenting. There are all kinds of tea out there! I am pretty sure you can buy a pack from like Lipton or something and just get one teabag of each tea, and try each of them. Anyway, if you have a shower, and drink tea, it is nearly impossible not to fall asleep. Also remember that it does not have to be a hot shower, especially if you are in summer. If I had a hot shower I probably would get heat stroke or something. Having a cold shower and then warming yourself up is so much better than getting out of the shower to ESCAPE the heat, only to find out it is still hot outside the shower too. Unless you are in winter where you live, then ignore everything I said as I am not advising hypothermia.

SONG PLAYLIST IDEAS (especially for cheering you up)

Gold Star For Me- Dodie Clark and Carrie someone-i-cant-remember

Faces Going Places- Jose Vanders

My Face- Dodie Clark

You're not alone- Marie Miller

Home- Phillip Phillips

Somebody to You- The Vamps (S.O. GABZ)

Here Comes The Sun- The Beetles (i think)

Its a beautiful Day- Michael Buble

Anyway, those are my tips for relaxing, and hopefully they will help you.I am in no way a professional (probably should have put that in the intro), but these are just my tips from one semi-functioning human to another.  They are all things that really help me alot, although I feel like basically it was just me telling you to go to bed. I think that is what I will do myself now.

But first, HOLY YOGA!!!!

The Socially awkward, AKA Melissa xx

PS: If anyone has a free chance, would they be able to pray for my school and friend group? They are all going through alot right now, and we are all really tired and particularly down at the moment. I treat them like peasants, but I really do love them. Hope you all have a good week!!