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Can I make a little confession here? Yesterday, when I was doing laundry, I put on a skirt so I could wash my pants, and I could feel tension leave my body as I walked around my house in the skirt. I could feel my blood pressure drop, and it felt like a breath I hadnt even realized I was holding in was escaping, taking with it a lot of my stress.
Weird, no?
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Weird yes
For me clothes is just clothes these days.
Kim
Oh please, No its not weird.
Oh please,
No its not weird. It just means you have gotten comfortable in your skin, while Dorothy is still working towards that. It doesn't make her weird.
Dorothy, I am sure you will find your way to peace in your own skin eventually. In the meantime, there is nothing wrong in enjoying the simple pleasure and relaxation you get from the props.
Hugs,
Kristy
Not ay all.
It's not weird at all. I feel the same way about the clothes I change into when I come home from work. I get rid of the coarse, company supplied uniform I wear all day and slip into soft fabrics and my wedgie sandals, let my hair down and maybe put on a little lipstick and wallah, the tension of the day drains away like magic. Clothes make the man, or in my case, the woman inside the man. ;o)
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann
Yes you are wierd!
You prefer skirts and they make you happy! OMG!!
I put on a skirt for the first time in months last month or a bit before. Its a tradition in our family that christmas dinner is semi formal. The women wear nice skirted outfits and the men wear a shirt, slacks and tie (no blue jeans). Its funny how you fight so hard for the right to dress in womens clothing and when the clothes become just clothes we fall back to slacks and a top...accessories optional.
Dayna.
Isnt it fun to be wierd..
Obviously
the effects of an updraught.
Angharad
We are all weird here,
I put it my last blog entry, I actually spent a full day femme. It was great, and yes, it was relaxing. This is something I will do more often I think, then go clothes shopping.
Weird?
Of course you are. You are Canadian:)
thoughts make a big difference
One of the first things about my transition that puzzled me was why did I feel better when I thought of myself as female as opposed to thinking of myself as male. I was doing nothing but thinking and that simple transition brought me happiness.
I did a lot of reading on it and if you are willing to look at how quantum mechanics works in the brain, it kind of makes sense. There has been extensive research in how we can use thought to remap parts of our brain. That kind of therapy is is being used today for treatment of depression and OCD. There are even machines that help the brain remap what we hear to fix tinnitus using the same ideas.
So it makes sense that if my brain is more female oriented, then thinking that way would just make it work more efficiently. There are no machines that can easily test thought on that level yet, so it is still an hypothesis, but probably a good one.
So it makes sense to me that wearing a skirt around the house makes you happy.
You Are Not Your Brain is a good read on that topic.
Last week, I was getting ready to go to my therapist and was grabbing for a pair of jeans. I accidentally picked up my jean skirt and thought why not, It was a good day that day.
Bright Blessings,
Cassie Ellen