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Depends on what's going on.

Anxiety? Relaxation techniques.

Tedium? Find the interesting.

Something physical? Stand, change position, go for a run or walk. Eat. Take vitamin D in the cold dark winters.

Often, though, it's as simple as just... starting. One technique is to promise myself that I can stop after I go for a full 5 minutes. Usually, it's just enough to get started and then I'm in.

Once it was burnout though and nothing helped except fully not even looking at my computer for a good long time.



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