Calming Activity Quotes

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

I only ever baked because it helped with my anxiety.

Before every show, I eat half a rotisserie chicken.

For the first three years of his life, my son insisted on hearing 'Goodnight Moon' before bedtime. Like most babies, he was not a good sleeper by disposition - but reading seemed to help, and this book specifically became part of his whole wind-down ritual.

Submerging myself in water makes me feel better after travelling. There's something about it that does it for me, and I usually go for a swim after every trip.

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

When my life is stressful, my favorite game is called 'Pop It,' where you pop balloons and prizes fall out. It's a five-minute game that focuses my mind and gives me extra attention when I'm stressed.

When I was seven or eight, whenever I was getting too rowdy at night, my parents would give me a maths workbook to work on to quieten me down.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

I find that I have a lot of suppressed energy when I'm on a plane for a long period so when I'm holding a fidget spinner, being able to play with it and just sort of run my hands over it helps me out quite a lot; it helps me relax.

If I'm in a bad mood, my thing is I go clean! That's what relaxes me! I go and clean everything.

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

This is what I do. I look at brains. I'm fascinated by it. I can spend hours doing it. In fact, if I want to relax, that's one way I can relax.

I cannot go to sleep without reading.

I find vacuuming very therapeutic. I like the lines it makes on the carpet.

On a day I start, I have a turkey sandwich for lunch. I don't consider it a ritual, but I'm anxious on those days.

I can never get to sleep without a book.

I find humming is very useful.

Going to grocery stores is almost my favorite thing to do to calm myself down. There's something about just walking aisle after aisle making mundane choices. 'Do I want that? No, I want the one that has the low sodium.' And that feels like a good exercise to be doing when there isn't anything to be doing. It's like a kick-starter in some way.

I always try to read at night, because it gets me kind of tired.

Sometimes I can't think of a better way to end my day than coming home and just strumming my ukulele for a few minutes. I mean, I joke around and tell people that it's an entire yoga session in one strum, you know?

I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.

Sometimes punching a bag for half an hour was pretty cathartic and pretty necessary.

Tonight I just need my guitar.