The Sandbox Writing Challenge #4 — Relaxation & Pleasure

Still going back in time to complete Calen’s challenge based on Roberta Allen’s The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself

Tell us a little bit about:

a) what relaxes you, and

b) what brings you pleasure.

What relaxes me:

• listening to music – sometimes classical, sometimes heavy metal
• my white noise machine
• meditation
• reiki
• reading a good book
• smoking a cigarette (yes yes yes, I know)
• a long hot shower
• veggin’ out in front of the laptop, watching Netflix
• listening to it rain
• a glass of red wine
• a hot cup of tea
• sitting on the front porch in the rocker just listening to nature (when the traffic has died down)

What brings me pleasure:

• Chocolate
• a few White Russians (the drink, not the body)
• listening to raven’s cawing (I have an affinity for ravens and their cawing is pure poetry to me)
• comfort food – biscuits & gravy, mac-n-cheese, spaghetti, cabbage & meatballs, meatloaf (all the things that are bad for me)
• coffee
• Pepsi Max
• writing
• reading a good book
• watching a documentary on Netflix
• Seeing my nieces
• wearing bracelets
• painting my fingernails
• buying books on Amazon or entering contests on Goodreads (I am a book whore)
• spending time with my dad
• listening to Prince or Simply Red
• doing research