I’m currently working in a job I really can’t stand. Some days it feels like sandpaper rubbed against my skin would be more enjoyable.
I started taking up yoga practice this year to help with my stress levels, except I kept forgetting to be calm at work. So when I felt like I was going to lose it, I would politely excuse myself to the restroom and do a handstand. Its a lot harder to cry when you’re upside down, something about gravity? It feels like a reset button.
Thing is, once I realized how well this worked, I started to do it more often. I now measure my stress level in # of handstands. Me: “it was a 3 handstand day and I still feel like I need to have wine for dinner”… thats when you know its been a long week.
Good outcome: my handstands are doing really great. Bad outcome: people probably think I have some type of bladder issue.
- anonymous
(this is quite possibly why she’s single, but i think she’s maybe on to something? with my luck gravity would fail me as a) i would probably cry anyways causing an upside down mascara mess, b) my nose always runs when i cry so i would get snot in my eyes which would most assuredly lead to pink eye, c) i would fall, and d) someone would walk in on me and witness all of the above.) - e.k.
