‘Forest Bathing’? Time Mag Offers Some Loopy Healing Activities for Sad Leftists on Inauguration Day

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Monday is going to be a dark day for leftists, and Time Magazine, still trying to recapture its long-lost relevance, is ready to help. As Donald Trump is inaugurated as president again, Time wants sad leftists to do a little self-care, and offers eleven ideas for how they can do it. Of course, after Time readers are through brushing their horses or indulging in a little “forest bathing,” Trump will still be president, and then what? On that key question, Time is silent.

The Time article makes a cursory nod toward some semblance of actual journalism by noting that Inauguration Day “for some” will be “a highly anticipated day of celebration.” But then it notes that “others have been dreading it—and would happily finagle a deal with the universe to skip to some other day four years down the road instead.” And the latter group, of course, is the only one that interests Time. The has-been magazine doesn’t offer any tips for how best to celebrate the big day; the focus is entirely on leftists who have the sads.

And so what can these poor fighters for diversity, equity and inclusion do? Anindita Bhaumik, who is identified as “a therapist and certified trauma professional in Boston,” asserts that “the fact that Inauguration Day falls on Martin Luther King Jr. Day—a federal holiday, granting many people the day off work—is serendipitous.” This allows crestfallen socialists an opportunity to do some good for once: “Take advantage of your empty calendar by participating in a local service project, she suggests. Volunteering has been shown to reduce stress and depression, boost happiness, and enhance life satisfaction, motivation, social support, and sense of community.” All right. They can certainly find worse things to do.

Bhaumik suggests that if leftists can’t keep on destroying the country, at least as directly as they have been doing, they can simply occupy themselves with other things: “The cause of anxiety is often a desire to control the outcome. We can’t control the outcome all the time, but what we can do is control what we do: ‘I’m going to go to a shelter and brush a horse or bathe a dog, and that will bring me joy for an hour and help someone else. This, I can control.’” Yeah, that’ll fix it.

Time offers other suggestions, including going to the gym, which “can help you wrest back a sense of power that you might feel is missing on Inauguration Day.” How’s that again? Well, it goes something like this: “You might not be able to do anything about the new Administration’s policies, but you know what you can do? Fifteen perfect-form jumping jacks.”

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