how do you force yourself to relax?

Like every time, after I play 10 hours of Team Fortress 2, and I'm done playing it for the day... well, I can't wind down. I can't relax or focus on anything. I spend the rest of the day or night just refreshing WATMM, Slashdot, 4chan, and YouTube because I can't stop feeling edgy and tense.

Deep breathing doesn't work. Music doesn't work. Fapping actually makes me even more tense afterwards.

So... is it possible to force yourself to get focused on something serious after you spend most of your day goofing off?

i find taking one or two shots of alcohol lightens my mood without making me useless.

alternatively, smoking marijuana (like cigarette) makes it very easy to jump into a song and poop out ideas.

or the sober way for me is to sit outside (middle of the night), stare out into the empty streets, and daydream.

  On 7/16/2009 at 10:51 AM, my usernames always really suck said:

 

 

So... is it possible to force yourself to get focused on something serious after you spend most of your day goofing off?

No, it's not. As Cesar Milan would put it, exercise, discipline, affection, in that order. It's not opposable thumbs or language that is the defining feature of human existense, it's our inexhaustable stamina for physical exercise. We're not particularly strong or quick as an animal, but we're a jack of all trades made to go on indefinitely. It's our hunter-gatherer past. We have more in common with wolves than chimpanzees, who are quite simply lazy monkeys sitting on their bulbous arses all day. Playing video games for 12 hours in a row is the absolute opposite of what we have evolved to be, and you will never be able to relax as you are denying a fundamental aspect of the human condition. Try walking up and down a few hills. About 20 miles worth. Cut out refined sugar from your diet. Then you will be able to relax.

  On 7/16/2009 at 11:09 AM, Lady kakapo said:

  On 7/16/2009 at 10:51 AM, my usernames always really suck said:

 

 

So... is it possible to force yourself to get focused on something serious after you spend most of your day goofing off?

 

No, it's not. As Cesar Milan would put it, exercise, discipline, affection, in that order. It's not opposable thumbs or language that is the defining feature of human existense, it's our inexhaustable stamina for physical exercise. We're not particularly strong or quick as an animal, but we're a jack of all trades made to go on indefinitely. It's our hunter-gatherer past. We have more in common with wolves than chimpanzees, who are quite simply lazy monkeys sitting on their bulbous arses all day. Playing video games for 12 hours in a row is the absolute opposite of what we have evolved to be, and you will never be able to relax as you are denying a fundamental aspect of the human condition. Try walking up and down a few hills. About 20 miles worth. Cut out refined sugar from your diet. Then you will be able to relax.

 

 

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*orders taxi to Camden*

 

or get a job

play soccer, that's what i do

Masturbate furiously like the caged, shaved ape that you really are.

when i get in from work i immediately skin up a big spliff.

  On 7/16/2009 at 10:51 AM, my usernames always really suck said:

Like every time, after I play 10 hours of Team Fortress 2, and I'm done playing it for the day... well, I can't wind down.

ive discovered your problem.

try playing 10 additional hours of tf2. but turn the tv upside down, that should do the trick.

Maybe you shouldn't play that game for 10 hours. And you can't really "force" yourself to relax. Part of the problem is probably that you want it so badly, and then you get antsy because you don't know how to relax. Just let it happen.

  On 7/16/2009 at 10:51 AM, my usernames always really suck said:

Like every time, after I play 10 hours of Team Fortress 2...

Entirely too much game playing

  On 7/16/2009 at 3:29 PM, messiaen said:

  On 7/16/2009 at 10:51 AM, my usernames always really suck said:

Like every time, after I play 10 hours of Team Fortress 2, and I'm done playing it for the day... well, I can't wind down.

 

 

ive discovered your problem.

DURRRRR HURRRRR

  On 7/16/2009 at 4:15 PM, LARRY said:

Maybe you shouldn't play that game for 10 hours. And you can't really "force" yourself to relax. Part of the problem is probably that you want it so badly, and then you get antsy because you don't know how to relax. Just let it happen.

Bingo!

how about stop playing games and go outside, you know, the real world.

drink an assload of Code Red. THen ride out the sugar crash to blissful sleep.

Force is probably the wrong word to use. Relaxing shouldn't take too much effort. Take a 15 minute break from your games every hour.

roll up a huge blunt of shit weed

With a gun

Try this breathing technique, if it doesn't work for you then you're likely stressing yourself out too hard...OVER A VIDEO GAME:

the 4-7-8 breath:

breathe in for 4 seconds

hold for 7

breathe out making a 'whooshing' noise (in order to regulate the rate of your exhale) for 8 seconds.

do this 4x, or until you reach the level you want to be at. It WORKS. Everytime I reach that 4th round, I can literally feel my energy level drop down a notch. I've never gone past 3 sets of these until I pass out.

lie on bed with headphones. something calming to listen to

call and order a pizza while masturbating and don't get off until you get off

Bubble bath and ambien

  On 7/16/2009 at 10:11 PM, Yegg said:

Bubble bath and ambien

ambientanalog bubblebath

a tablespoon of codeine

Go outside - it'll make you tired. No shit.

the government is paying for my drug habit

BOOYA

pump yegg full of ambien and wait for her to open a portal. then go back in time and have sex with your mom