So many things in the world can relax us

Marina Melnick
2 min readMar 20, 2023

Let’s observe ourselves.

What relaxes me?

🎵Music. Shade, Vaya Con Dios, jazz blues, Sting, Michael Jackson — that’s what I love.

🕯️Candles. When I light them, a different atmosphere immediately arises.

🪔Aroma sticks, oils, and hot showers.

📚My favorite book and cuddling with the person I love (partner/friend).

🌊A massage, the sea, a walk.

🍵Making a special tea mixed with honey or a fantastic coffee with milk and spices.

🍪Cooking.

🛍️Surfing my three favorite sites with runoff brand clothing.

📞Talking to my mom. She tells me something, and I already feel good :)

🐾To lie around and cuddle with the dog.

🎤Recording a meditation. Not even dictating it, but when I think, “Okay, something is wrong, what can I do? What meditation should I record?”

Try my meditation: https://insighttimer.com/marmeliko

📝Sitting and jotting down some thoughts.

I think I’ve come into the mode:
- How do you relax?
- I’m not bothered.

🚙Driving. When I get in the car, I turn on the music. It feels like I’m so protected, in my own world.

🎨Coloring. But this takes time, so I almost never allow myself to do it — only when I had pencils on hand.

🪵Going to clay and driftwood workshops. I like the second direction — it is creative and thoughtful. Actually, sometimes I held driftwood workshops in Bulgaria.

🐚Collect some elements — seashells, pebbles. All sorts of creativity helps a lot to relax.

📙Learning new things. I can immerse myself super deeply in new information. I really like to do it — at such moments I feel myself in the flow mode. And, of course, I love sharing new knowledge.

At such moments, people around usually think: “Poor Marina, reading her training again”. But they don’t even realize that at such moments Marina is at the peak of her comfort :)

👗Make something up with my tailor. If I come to her with a bag of strange things — we start a creative process.

👯‍♀️Meeting my friends.

❤️Sex. And not just sex with a partner, but all kinds of toys, massages.

💇‍♀️Hair treatment. The same goes for any other beauty treatment.

What relaxes you? What gives you goosebumps and a feeling of total comfort?

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