Easing Stress
There are many ways to relax and get rid of stress, and I think they can be divided into two types: active and passive. The former type is, for example, playing sports, driving, going to karaoke with friends, and shopping. Listening to music, watching videos and sleeping are examples of the passive type.
I usually try to relax by burning incense and aroma candles, and I think this is the passive way because I don’t actually do anything while the incense is burning. After taking a bath, I burn incense in my room with the light kept dim and muted music coming from the stereo. Lying still in the sweet-scented room for several minutes refreshes me! While some active ways require a certain level of technique (we may get frustrated because we lack technique), passive ways don’t.
The preferred way of easing stress is different from person to person, and any means is OK. What is important is that everyone does have some ways to get rid of stress.
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I have several kinds of incense and my favorite is greentea-scented one. There are only two sticks left and I have to go to Takayama, Gifu Prefecture if I want one…
I also like the fragrance which my parents bought for me. It is the mixture of persimmon, tonka bean and ambergris, and the frangrance symbolizes the maple leaf in autumn.
I don’t care what aromatherapists say (that is, what fragrance is for what symptom) but I deciede which incense to burn according to my feeling.
I have never tried burning incence nor aroma candles, because I don’t like heavy artificial fragrance very much. So I’ve never used any perfume. Though, I like light scene such as soap, shampoo, cosmetics etc.
The most effective way for me to release stress is to talk with my friends or my parents. Shopping and sleeping is also good.
The way I reduce stress is active. When I feel stress, playnig tennis and talking a lot with my friends relaxes me. Also just sleeping is good. It is important that one does what s/he wants to do.
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One afternoon, when I was a teen and home alone, I lit an incense stick in my room, a product of India, probably patchouli-scented. Later that day, my parents returned and when they noticed the smell they got really, really upset because they thought I had — what, smoked hashish, or heroin?
Ironically, they like incense now and they’re pleased when they get some sticks from Japan.
What’s your favourite fragrance?