Life comes with many things including troubles; some are small and some seems unsurmountable. While situations are out of our control, know that we have power over our reactions and feelings. When you’re stress, try to do healthy activities that make you feel relaxed, nourished and beautiful. Here are 100 lovely ideas to beat the stress:
1. Soak your feet (Try a luxurious DIY rose milk foot soak)
2. Light the aromatheraphy burner with relaxing essential oil
3. Go for a swim (or just a dip and play with water)
4. Get into the sauna or steamroom
5. Arrange fresh flowers
6. Watch your favourite Disney cartoon
7. Call your favourite friend to catch up
8. Sleep
9. Get inspiration and pin beautiful things at Pinterest
10. Eat very spicy food and sweat it out
11. Create an indoor garden (3 air filtering plants under RM 50)
12. Make your own frozen food (Try congee in ziplock bag or homemade burger patties)
13. Stroke and talk to your pet
15. Make a cup of hot tea
16. Try out a nearby gym or yoga center
17. Daydream
18. Learn to juggle
19. Gather healthy snacks like nuts and raisins and put in a box
20. Deep condition your hair at home (Condition your hair like a pro in 5 steps)
21. Take a walk around your neighbourhood
22. Make a hearty breakfast
23. Get a new hobby (10 fun and hip hobbies to do in KL)
24. Give yourself a full-body scrub
25. Colour-code your keys with nail polish
26. Squeeze a stress ball
27. Listen to a Ted talk (Try: Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard?)
28. Write a love letter to someone special
29. List down birthdays and wedding anniversaries of your favourite people
30. Make your own motivation board
31. Make a foot soak for a friend (DIY Peppermint foot soak)
32. Make paper planes and let it go from the tallest place you can go
33. Flavour your drink with fruits and herbs
34. Print your favourite quote and frame it up (10 quotes to make you dress up and look fabulous everyday)
35. Try your own nail art (DIY newspaper nail art)
36. Throw oranges on a surface to loosen the fibre before squeezing them into delicious juice
37. Learn to tie fishtail braid
38. Delete unnecessary apps in your phone
39. Hire a part-time cleaner to tidy your house (List of part-time cleaners in Malaysia)
40. Organise your wardrobe
41. Learn to fold clothes efficiently
42. Start a Whatsapp group and add all your old classmates
43. Get a hairwash at a nearby saloon
44. Take a long bath
45. Light a candle (7 creative candle holders)
46. Listen to classic books on youtube (Try : Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen)
47. Take a beautiful photograph of your favourite person
49. Flip through magazines
50. Try a new recipe (Try: homemade pasta sauce)
51. Organise your wallet (3 unexpected but useful thing to keep in your wallet)
52. Doodle
53. Watch a standup comedy on Youtube
54. Order fresh flowers and have it delivered to your doorstep
55. Scuplt a balloon
56. Make your own mask (Try green tea mask)
57. Pray
58. Give someone a big, tight hug
59. Appreciate classical music
60. Build a manicure kit
61. Drop a kind message to an old friend on Facebook
62. Grow your own herbs (Check out grow celery in a bowl of water)
63. Talk to a child
64. Write down 10 things that makes you happy
65. Try a health food delivery service
66. Book a pampering massage
67. Master a quick make-up routine for busy days
68. Play an instrument
69. Retrieve and read comics you loved when you were a child
70. Decorate your dressing table
71. Look through old holidays photos
72. Make something with your hands (Try a simple origami box)
73. Make a healthy TV snack (Edamame in 2 minutes)
74. Make a customised phone case of your pet
75. Snack on your favourite fruits (Check out 3 fruits you can eat with a spoon)
76. Make a photo book
77. Read an inspirational blog (Try Zen Habits)
78. Give yourself a head massage
79. Dance
80. Make your own instant noodles
81. Read a good book
82. Jump on a skipping rope like you used to as a child
83. Prepare a romantic movie night at home
84. Do some therapeutic colouring (Try Secret Garden’s colouring book)
85. Write a postcard for a friend living overseas
87. Meditate
88. Go to the nearby park
89. Think happy thoughts
90. Make a glass of green juice
91. Make a pot of hot soup
92. Listen to sound of nature via Youtube
93. Write a journal
94. Pop bubble-wrap
95. Make a water bottle marked with time
96. Strike a yoga pose
97. Give yourself a home facial
98. Bake a cake for a friend (Try: 30 minutes no-bake blueberry cheesecake)
99. Take photos of your favourite things and upload on Instagram (Get some inspiration here)
100. Plan a holiday
What do you do to de-stress?