Last week, I shared 5 reasons to avoid reacting to stress and I promised a follow up post on how to deal with stress this week.
As it turns out, I’m going to write that post next week – but I didn’t want to leave anyone hanging so today I’m going give some quick tips on how you can use Pinterest to reduce your stress. (That also gives you more time to share your stress reducing tips and possibly get featured in my next post!)
Pinterest has a great many uses.
I shared how you can use it to improve your writing and how you can use it to become inspired.
I personally love creating pinboards because it’s a form of self-expression. I often compare it to how I used to cover my walls as a teenager. Every poster, picture, etc. on my bedroom walls was an outward expression of who I was. I had pictures of Madonna, the B-52′s, the two Corey’s (Haim and Feldmen…in case you’re lost), the original 90210, Paula Abdul and that cartoon cat, plus plenty of others that I can’t recall at the moment. I think I just gave away my age!
Now my self expression includes images of family life, writing, inspiration, places I want to go, blogging, social media, and my new favorite shows and actors…some things never change!
How to use it for reducing stress
Not only is it fun and relaxing to collect images, but looking through the images when I’m feeling stressed is also a great way to help reduce the stress that I’m feeling. I can choose a board such as the Makes Me Smile board or my Humor board to help me laugh or smile. Smiling and laughing actually help us to feel better physically by releasing endorphins. If cats are your thing, then you can find a bajillion images of cats (yes, that’s actually the number of cat pictures on Pinterest).
Other boards I enjoy looking at when I’m feeling stressed are my Places to Go board or my Dream Home board because those help me to open up my mind to the things that I dream of having or going to. It’s impossible to be hopeful and stressed at the same time. It may take a little bit of time to get there, but looking at images is really helpful because we humans are very visual creatures.
Take Action
If you’re feeling stressed, then visit some of my boards or do a search for something that inspires or humors you. Whether you’re stressed or not start pinning images that you enjoy for later. Start following people who have boards on topics that you love.
Have you used Pinterest for reducing stress before? Have you found it useful? If you haven’t tried it, what do you think of giving it a try?
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I never knew that I could use Pinterest this way. This was way too awesome.
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it really a great article, i really like it,thanks for sharing such a helpful article.
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Hi Stacy,
Pinterest is my new happy place! I love it and I take great care in making my boards beautiful, peaceful and fun.
Going over to see your boards now!
Lori
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I have a couple of boards directly related to my goals, like traveling, my dream home, zen rooms. It takes only 5-10 minutes, sometimes more, depending on how stressed I am.
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Oh for sure, Stacy.
I prefer Pinterest way more than Facebook these days for exactly the same reasons. And relaxing on the couch like a potato with the iPad version, you can merrily scroll away the time til the early hours. Which isn’t that good when you’ve got a partner waiting in bed for you but it has happened on a rare occasion or three
Good share, like always.
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Looks like Pinterest is also useful in a more personal way, aside from using this on business purposes. I think I might try Pinterest as well.
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I remember putting up posters and pictures in my room. At one point I had so many it was like wall paper. I have boards on pinterest also of places I want to go and recipes I like or would like to try. You’re right collecting and looking thru the photos is relaxing and in some cases inspirational.
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This is a great Hub. I haven’t used Pinterest yet but I know a lot of my friends and coworkers do. I think you laid out a lot of great reasons for how this can help reduce stress. Thank you for sharing this and for including the photos!
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Hi Stacy
I signed up with Pinterest a while back and still have not done anything with it, despite saying to myself to do it! Your post has once again reminded me to get to working on it and get pinning
It sounds like a great way to relax and reduce any stress that crops up, I also remember having lots of poster up on my wall when I was a teenager, Oh those were the days….
I will be heading over to your boards to take a look.
Have a great week
Pauline
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On Pinterest, I have only boards that inspire me and I belong to a community board called “How Do You De-Stress?” I love looking at nature, reading inspirational quotes, and seeing the faces and art of inspirational people, so these are all on my boards.
Also, instead of following all of someone’s boards, I pick the ones that inspire me, so when I’m at my Pinterest page, I’m only receiving uplifting pins.
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Hi Stacy,
What a great way to reduce stress. When we are stressed, doing an “opposite action” has always been my rule of thumb. Using Pinterest boards to decorate your dream home for example can get your mind off what is stressing you and turn it around to something pleasant.
Great suggestion!
Donna
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Hi Stacy,
Thank you for this post as you just gave me a Aha moment and why on earth I haven’t though about it before?
The Aha moment you just gave me is that I’ve been missing on creating tons of boards theme that just flashed to me as I was ready your post, especially when you mentioned the posters in your room as a kid and teenager.
So thank you so much for this, Stacy
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That’s a good idea Stacy, I never thought of that. I mean who doesn’t love looking at images but all of the different things you can check out on Pinterest I can see where that could take you to a whole other place.
That’s so cool.
~Adrienne
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Uhmmm Stacey. I have a Pinterest account but I’ve never done anything other than start the account. My daughters are always on it. I just don’t get it. I can see how it could eliminate stress. Something to think about.
Regards,
Barbara
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Hi Stacy
Thanks for this post as you have inspired me to get back to Pinterest. That is a cool idea and I never knew I could do that on Pinterest. I need to make the time to do it!
Thanks Stacy
Sue
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I had never really thought about social media as a means to reduce stress, more of the opposite actually. But you put it in an interesting way. Perhaps I’ll have to sign up with Pinterest after all…
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Actually there are many methods to reduce the depression, stress and tensions. I think this is one of the good way. But when i get upset it is very difficult for me to get rid of it. next time i will try this tips and inform you with my feed back lets see what happen.
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So far I hav used used pinterest as a brand building and traffic driving tool. Thank you for giving us the whole new idea of using it as stress buster
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Looking at images is indeed very relaxing. It’s like your alternative to a calming view of nature or the beautiful view on your rooftop if you can’t go out or do not have access to such a view.
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Great news to pinterest users! I’ve known that Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, hobbies, and more. I’m sure many would love to be part of the pinterest world. I also believe that by merely looking at some pictures, a person can be inspired and be relieved by stress. Thank you for this post! This is very much helpful to attract people in pinterest.
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Looks like Pinterest is also useful in amore personal way, aside from using this on business purposes. I think I might try pinterest as well
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Hello Stacy! You have wonderfully stated the true fact that Pinterest can be use to relieve stress.Basically Pinterest can be used to monitor and listen to what’s top of mind with your customers today.Four areas on Pinterest stand out as the best places to start your market research with Pinterest: Categories, Gifts, Descriptions, and Boards. And decorating those areas according to our business niche is really a stress relieving factor.
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I agree Stacy! Pinterest can really reduce stress and increase our creativity.
Thanks for the post!
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Hi Stacy. This sounds like a good idea. I’d been wondering about trying Pinterest and this sounds like a good reason to give it a go.
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Pintrest is a great website, but I wish it was used by more of my friends. I use it to gather together articles and ideas on my magic. I’m a magician. I know other people use it for their home ideas, or for their wedding ideas. It’s like an online scrapbook for the internet. You can save all those pages and ideas without having to bookmark everything on your computer. Really useful, and stress saving, as well as stress relieving.
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Great Post Stacy
Pintrest is awesome amalgamation of images, article and some more good stuff as a SEO i like this website so much and pintrest is good social bookmarking site. load of work i visit this site and spent some minutes to relief me great stuff of this site.
Thank You
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