How do I relieve chronic stress and anxiety?

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I spoke to my doctor a while ago, and they told me that my stress is negatively impacting my physical health.
When I go to bed, I try to pray for the sake of my family and friends. This habit gets me worrying
that they'll be sent to hell or get themselves into issues. I try to distract my mind by reading my Bible, or Saint Augustine
when I have these thoughts. For example: my brother is an atheist, and regular sinner. He likes Islam, so I pray
for him to convert to Islam for the sake of his soul. Then I worry about if I should pray for him to become Christian, instead
and if my praying for his conversion to Islam is unholy.
 
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Keep a journal, it's pretty gay but sometimes just being able to sit down and reflect on your life once a month while putting it into writing can help. Make sure you're writing tangible shit though, not just bullshit thoughts so that if you do go back you can actually see where you've progressed on shit you wanted to work on or accomplish and where you've fucked up.
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The easiest way in the long run is to solve as many problems, however minor, that are setting you back. Even if you can't do something about your brother, you could for instance work on finding a home to buy, getting more income, or cutting costs.

When I can't sleep, I work on my sewing projects. There's something about holding a physical thing you personally made in your hands that is vastly more satisfying than doing ineffable things on the internet.

Many of these physical things intersect with spiritual goals. Once you have a house and a reasonable mortgage, you could wrangle your brother to live there while he goes to school or works, and make going to church once a week conditional on staying there rent-free (or reduced). One month free rent for I assume 12 hours of sitting in church a month is a good deal in my book.

From what I understand of Catholicism, there are so many minor rituals and social benefits to being part of the faith that it provides a sort of identity and in-group to people that is often a proxy for ethnicity, and the sunken cost of learning all the little things about when to kneel and so on during church makes you want to keep going to justify having done so.
 
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NigKid said:
Nigga, are you praying to the christian god for your brother to convert to islam?
Im not an expert but im pretty sure he wouldnt let that fly
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I didn't think that he'd be able to convert to Christianity, as he thinks that Christ was weak for not creating an empire like Muhammad. You are probably right, I apologize. My logic was that it would be better for him to be involved with one of the Abrahamic faiths, rather than atheism.
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Sex if possible, masturbation otherwise.
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I have to wait for my future wife for such a thing. Masturbation is a great sin.
Poppavalyim Andropoff said:
try praying you’ll wake up being less of a faggot
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I don't have homosexual thoughts, so this would be pointless
CAPTAIN MATI said:
Have you tried exercise?
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Yes. I try to chop wood regularly, for my wood burning stove. I will purchase a better axe, so that I may cut wood more efficiently.

It seems that this post was more autistic than usual. I'll try and do better with my future postings.
 
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Keep a journal, it's pretty gay but sometimes just being able to sit down and reflect on your life once a month while putting it into writing can help. Make sure you're writing tangible shit though, not just bullshit thoughts so that if you do go back you can actually see where you've progressed on shit you wanted to work on or accomplish and where you've fucked up.
 
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I never understood the Christian mindset or any fundamentalist mindset in general. As a kid, I always thought that if you go to hell, you eat hot cheetos, heaven for cheese puffs (hot cheetos ftw).

Not trying to deny religion or anything. If you live a decent life, you're cool. I don't care if you worship Quetzalcoatl as long as you're content with where you are in life and that for others. However, just because the woke crowd is wringing their BS around, doesn't mean the fundies are any better. I never understood religious folks making up strigent rules for themselves that makes their lives more miserable than they are closer to God or whatever spiritual ideal. Plus the doctrine of eternal hellfire to me always seemed utterly unjust in a common sense point of view.

Personally, if I were to take the Bible with a grain of salt, it defintely has timeless wisdom (especially Proverbs and Jesus), but is bogged down by the flawed writings of man. Some of the things in there like God sending a bear to kill some teenagers because they called Elijah a "baldhead" or God smiting a dude for not carrying the Ark of Covenant "the right way" without mercy just doesn't sit right for me.
 
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