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f dust, cat hairs, dog hairs and human hairs with your rubber broom. Find your sweeping rhythm. In your mind you can sing Stayin’ Alive. Enter meditative flow state.Create little piles of leaves, seedlings, dust, whatever it is you’re sweeping up.In your mind you can sing Stayin’ Alive.Put broom aside. Thank broom for its service.Stand back, cross your arms, arch your back, feel the slight sheen of sweat on your forehead and back and admire your little pile of leaves. Or dirt. Pat yourself on the back.Now don your rubber gloves and pick up those leaves or get your dustpan and gather up that dust. Transfer to some sort of green bin.That’s it! By now you should be stress free, your yard should be clean, and your air less polluted since your labor avoided the use of a noisy leaf blower. Congratulations, you’re a star!Key Message: A yard, some leaves and a broom — that’s all you need to bust your stress</article></body>

THE DAILY WRITE

Stressed? Try This.

Less famous alternatives to walking and deep breathing

What’s my favorite way to relieve stress?

Well, there’s walking and running of course. Two fabulous and reliable standbys. Or deep breathing. And I could write about those. But I’d rather share another activity, less famous, rarely discussed, good for you and the environment.

Gosh, it’s almost sounding too good to be true, right?

It’s sweeping leaves in your yard.

Wait a minute, don’t hang up, hear me out now. Don’t dismiss it till you’ve tried it. And I’ve also got some good apartment life substitutions! Here’s the recipe.

Ingredients: 1 yard, unswept

Ingredients

1 yard, littered with leaves (if not, you can substitute a sidewalk. If you live in an apartment, you can substitute your floor)

1 broom (for indoor sweeping I prefer a rubber broom. If you’re really not in that mood, ok then. A vacuum cleaner.)

1 dustpan OR garden gloves

Method

Grip the handle of the broom with both hands. Unless you’re a rare master or mistress of one handed sweeping. In which case I bow down to you.

Go to your yard. Alternatively, go to a corner of your apartment.

Start sweeping vigorously, gathering up any leaves on the ground. If it’s not autumn, gather up the million tiny seeds and other droppings from trees that are buried in the crevices between stones. The harder it is to ferret out the dirt, the more vigorously you must sweep. If in an apartment, chase those little swirls of dust, cat hairs, dog hairs and human hairs with your rubber broom. Find your sweeping rhythm. In your mind you can sing Stayin’ Alive. Enter meditative flow state.

Create little piles of leaves, seedlings, dust, whatever it is you’re sweeping up.

In your mind you can sing Stayin’ Alive.

Put broom aside. Thank broom for its service.

Stand back, cross your arms, arch your back, feel the slight sheen of sweat on your forehead and back and admire your little pile of leaves. Or dirt. Pat yourself on the back.

Now don your rubber gloves and pick up those leaves or get your dustpan and gather up that dust. Transfer to some sort of green bin.

That’s it! By now you should be stress free, your yard should be clean, and your air less polluted since your labor avoided the use of a noisy leaf blower. Congratulations, you’re a star!

Key Message: A yard, some leaves and a broom — that’s all you need to bust your stress