Building a bliss station
I have experienced constant stress, anxiety, and associated neck and shoulder pain for most of my adult life. The events of the last four years – moving in and out of pandemic mode, watching my world collectively take on more stress, anxiety, and rage in response to wars of all kinds – brought with them a flare-up of my own physical and mental pain. At the start of March I took stock of the habits and routines I had developed and started experimenting with various ways of turning down the noise of the external world. ...