Hello friends! I saw the post about the new daily theme of Slow Living Sunday in The Minimalist community, so I thought I would take a crack at a post. It's about how you find calm and peace in our loud and chaotic society.
On the one hand, I keep peace in my apartment by limiting background noise. I technically have an old CRT television with a VCR attached, so I can watch old movies or play on my Wii if I want, but it isn't hooked up to any TV service or the internet (and the Wii is too old to speak to my modern internet modem! I actually tried and found that out on a troubleshooting page). So even when it's hooked up (it normally lives in the closet), it's for that purpose of watching a movie or playing a game. I'm not having it always on the background like some folks do.
When I listen to music, I listen with intention. I sit down and put headphones on and don't do anything else while I'm listening. On rare occasion I might listen to a podcast or YouTube video while doing something like cleaning, but not often.
One of the calming activities I do do, is knitting. I recently finished my third bandage for the doctor in the Philippines who asked knitters and crocheters to make some for leprosy patients, as they work better than the traditional gauze kind you can buy from medical suppliers:
The first two I did were 3" wide, and the new one is 4". I saw the doctor post that she was getting a lot of 3" ones, so I started doing the wider one after that.
As you can see in that photo, I do generally watch a YouTube video or DVD while I knit. I don't like to just sit there and watch something; I like to keep my hands busy. So this is what I do to relax. I like crafting for a cause, it makes me feel useful, and it's meditative and calming to knit. :) And this way I am not just rotting my brain in front of a screen. 😂
Many thanks to @millycf1976 for the new topic, and thanks for reading! 😄 Have a wonderful day, everyone.
When I listen to music, I listen with full concentration
I live to vibe along with the song including the lyrics
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Wow, you really feel the music, at home when we play music it's always in the background and we never really pay much attention to it, I think I'm going to try to just listen to it and feel it without doing anything else, it must feel different.
And regarding the bandages, what a nice job you do, using your skills to help others, that's a great gesture, I congratulate you for that.
I have always listened to music like that, even when I was a child. It's very meditative, and I let my imagination fly with the music. :)
Thanks for stopping by! :)
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!DIYSTATSI find the slow living topic pretty interesting. I'm retired so I'm not in the "fast living" environment anymore, but I still find some of the ideas presented on the topic to be pretty useful.
WOW! Kudos to you for being able to supply these. That's a skill I hope to learn one day.
Ah, what a shame you forgot to post in the community. I HATE when that happens to me.
Btw, maybe you'll have a contribution to the next KISS topic that will be published in just over an hour:)
I figured out how to cross-post it, Itried to post in the community but I made an error trying to change the first # to slowlivingsunday instead of Ecency making the community the first hashag. I hope that's ok!
We do not do cross-post, but no stress. I will not mute your post. I know it's a terrible feeling because we can't edit to add the community 🤗
ah, sorry. it's a brain foggy day.