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February 3, 2019

Other Activities To Do For 20 Minutes Instead of Using Drugs and Alcohol


Other Activities To Do For 20 Minutes Instead of Using Drugs and Alcohol

Temptation runs high for addicts who are trying to wean themselves off drugs and alcohol. When the craving hits, it’s important for the individual to have something productive, safe and healthy to focus on so they don’t give in and use. Here are some ideas of how to spend 20 minutes instead of abusing drugs and alcohol:

Cardio
Finding a form of physical exercise to enjoy can mean a world of difference in the recovery process. Whether it’s a 20 minute jog or a workout video, exercise can be a great distraction from the lows of craving drugs and alcohol. Cardio produces endorphins which create a natural, visceral high, and it’s good for the body. Some athletes call it additive, and while it’s never good to replace one addiction with another, turning to a good workout instead of caving to substance abuse is a positive and productive way to further your recovery. Joining a gym or a fitness club of some kind can curb the cravings.
Yoga

On a similar note, doing 20 minutes of yoga can be a great way to relax and refocus. The calming effects are therapeutic, and the physical benefits are immense. Learn a series of poses, get a DVD, or find a short video online to guide your way through your craving by meditating on the positive things in life, and take your attention off the cravings. Joining a studio can help with the on-going cravings as a continuous part of therapy.
Learn An Instrument
Perhaps you’ve always wanted to play the piano or the guitar – taking a weekly lesson and then practitioner for 20 or 30 minutes daily can be a productive way to get your mind off the need to use. Learning a new skill is a great way to challenge the brain and continue to develop one’s self, and have a positive result to show for it at the end of the day. It’s a great motivator and a good reason to stay clean. Art and music can be therapeutic as well, so channelizing stress and other emotions into art is a great way to create, rather than destroy, within one’s own life.
Get a New Hobby
Start drawing. Learn to knit or crochet, or take up woodworking. Whatever is of interest to you can be productive, as long as it’s not harming your body and mind. Making things with one’s hands is good for the mind, and allows for a feeling of engulfment and satisfaction. Instead of feeling the shame and guilt of drug and alcohol abuse, the recovering addict can feel proud of making something beautiful out of nothing. It may take some time to discover what hobby is most enjoyable, and to learn the particular skill, but it will be so much more rewarding than substance abuse, and will create the perfect distraction when the cravings it.
Cook a Healthy Meal
When the craving hits, decide it’s time to make dinner, even if you don’t eat it until dinner time. Channel that energy and craving into a love of good food and start making colorful, healthy, fresh meals for yourself, or even for your loved ones. Cooking is an art form, and it can be a way to focus on one’s health.

By changeling the stress of the craving into a healthy meal, you’ll be less likely to want to undo that health by using again. Cooking a good meal takes about 20 minutes, so get a nice cookbook and become the chef you always wanted to be.
Read a Good Book
Reading Book Instead of Drugs and Alcohol

Maybe you feel you wasted those years of your life as an addict, and now it’s time to make up for lost time. Create a reading list for yourself: all of the classics you never bothered to read before; become an expert on something; whatever it is, make your list, and when the craving hits, get lost in a good book for 20 minutes.

The key to finding a good distraction from the cravings is to find something productive to do – not something that is replacing one bad habit with another, but something that will better your life. If you consistently turn to that activity when you start to feel the craving, you’ll begin to associate the positive feelings the activity gives you with the feelings of want, and you’ll soon become attached to that hobby, but in a good way.

Your body and mind will thank you for spending your time with your new love, instead of relapsing into drugs and alcohol.

Other Activities To Do For 20 Minutes Instead of Using Drugs and Alcohol

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February 2, 2019

BookstoreTwenties On Your Forties Your Twenties On (just css experiment)




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On the Experience of Entering a Bookstore in Your Forties


In my twenties the question was never “What do I want to read?” but rather “Who do I want to be?”—and bookstores were shrines I pilgrimage for answers. I didn’t have much money and had to be intentional in my selections. I’d pull a book from the shelf and study its cover, smell its pages, wander into the weather of its first lines and imagine the storms to come—imagine a wiser, wilder me for having been swept away by them. It’s something I still feel in my forties. I’m still dazzled by possibilities when I walk into a bookstore.

Now when I wander the aisles, it’s not just some future self I imagine but a past one. There aren’t just books to read but books I’ve already read. Lives I’ve lived. Hopes abandoned. Dreams deferred. The bookstore is still a shrine but more and more what I find aren’t answers to questions but my own unwritten histories.

I’d started coming to bookstores because I wanted to learn how to write and the only consistent advice I got from established writers was to read everything. It was good advice. It’s still good advice. It’s also impossible. No one reads everything, nor even all the books they’d like to. You make your choices, come what may. John Muir’s famous quote about ecology might as well have been about choosing what books to buy: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” The bookstore is a minimal space. Even if like me you don’t have the cash to buy a box of new titles and reinvent yourself week to week, you have the moment of the choosing and everything it tugs upon.

But it’s not the same


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February 1, 2019

The Crazy Cajun Huey Meaux 1-hour podcast live in studio @WFMU

Before he was busted for pedophilia, Huey Meaux was the top record producer in Texas and Louisiana.


Meaux mixed raunchy rock and roll with drunken call-ins and prison dedications
Nobody knew about his sordid secret life—not even me.

Huey "The Crazy Cajun" Meaux, lit-up late night radio.
Broadcasting out of Pacifica's KPFT in Houston back in the 70s.

Surreal Mic Strainer, Moves Reducer, Sewage-fly, Overstated Dope-COCK, Alpha-Matador whose Outfit once called him Monarchist, Dust-Toker, Musk Chiba, Frothy Boner Bouncer, First hard-Maker, Apollo ‘Seizure of Swirl’, THE MAN the Leaders Framed!, loader of the snare, dizzy darer, Hard-stitched and bad-Giblets, Career def-producer, perfect-earthling, Bipolar ears, Mic Medley from the city, in 1 piston out emotion, MR. Bang of 20 gestures counted, 1, 2, マイ ugh!, ルス デイヴス Jacuzzi, Whore-crossed influenza, orbit speaks, motor of oozing that writhes, boom-animation, fanny-syncer, erudite Nuance, Mic-papa’s huge musky hit, Meatporter ass, undead and seducing…


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Brian May offers very funny "apology" on Instagram. Shared by @brianmayforreal, with love - Bri. (this is why i stay up late)


Brian May offers a very funny "apology" on Instagram. Shared by @brianmayforreal,


with love -  Bri.


(this is why i stay up late)


Dear Folks,

I was shocked and saddened to realise what I had done by my hasty and inconsiderate IG reply to this lady yesterday. I’ve posted an apology to her in the ‘reply’ box, but it seems to have disappeared - so I’m going to try to repeat it here, to be clear. ———-


Dear Sue,


I’m so sorry that I responded to your post so snappily and inconsiderately. My response was a result of my perception that someone was telling me what to do.


I now realise that I was completely wrong in thinking that. You were actually just trying to protect me, for which I thank you. I am mortified to discover the effect my words produced. I had no idea that saying someone was innocent until proven guilty could be interpreted as “defending“ Bryan Singer.


I had absolutely no intention of doing that. I guess I must be naive, because also it had never occurred to me that ‘following’ a person on Instagram could be interpreted as approving of that person. The only reason I followed Bryan Singer was that we were working with him on a project.


That situation came to an end when Mr Singer was removed during the shooting of the film, but I suppose unfollowing him never occurred to me as a necessity.


Now, because of this misunderstanding, I have unfollowed. I’m so sorry. This must have caused you a lot of upset. I wish I could take the comment back, but all I can do is apologize, and hope that my apology will begin to make amends.


Sadly, this is all very public, but since I snapped at you in public, it’s only fitting that I should apologize in public. I’m going to try to follow you so we can communicate privately if you want.




A post shared by Brian Harold May (@brianmayforreal)

Dear Folks - I was shocked and saddened to realise what I had done by my hasty and inconsiderate IG reply to this lady yesterday. I’ve posted an apology to her in the ‘reply’ box, but it seems to have disappeared - so I’m going to try to repeat it here, to be clear. ———- Dear Sue, I’m so sorry that I responded to your post so snappily and inconsiderately. My response was a result of my perception that someone was telling me what to do. I now realise that I was completely wrong in thinking that. You were actually just trying to protect me, for which I thank you. I am mortified to discover the effect my words produced. I had no idea that saying someone was innocent until proven guilty could be interpreted as “defending“ Bryan Singer. I had absolutely no intention of doing that. I guess I must be naive, because also it had never occurred to me that ‘following’ a person on Instagram could be interpreted as approving of that person. The only reason I followed Bryan Singer was that we were working with him on a project. That situation came to an end when Mr Singer was removed during the shooting of the film, but I suppose unfollowing him never occurred to me as a necessity. Now, because of this misunderstanding, I have unfollowed. I’m so sorry. This must have caused you a lot of upset. I wish I could take the comment back, but all I can do is apologise, and hope that my apology will begin to make amends. Sadly, this is all very public, but since I snapped at you in public, it’s only fitting that I should apologise in public. I’m going to try to follow you so we can communicate privately if you want. With love - Bri. —— I should add that this is also a sincere apology to anyone else out there that I inadvertently offended. No such offence was intended and I will be more careful in future. Bri
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Buzziest drops (CSS of the century)


Buzziest drops


2019 Artists to Watch


Get these creators on your radar, wherever you are.


Episode 1 begins with the distorted, over-amped, amphetamine-fueled face of 'The Killer,' as you'll never see him again; looming, red-faced, in a fish-eyed, demonic visage, where it sees him through Episode 13, in interviews, sodden in whiskey-soaked pill-pride.\n\nTony Palmer's ultimate depiction of the Killer on his Golgotha.\nYou can see him and sister, Linda Gail, sing "Speak A Little Louder To Us Jesus," thanks to Tony Palmer - British documentarian, without compare, who committed to an ambitious project.\n
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If you are like me, this is your favorite new picture from Wiki...


If you’re anything like me, this is your favorite new picture from Wiki...

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