Lots of time & money is devoted to channeling negative, destructive energy. Here I propose a simple, cost-effective answer: woodworking to music.
Channeling negative energy into something positive doesn’t work too often. You go for a run and mess up your knee, swim half a mile and get lapped several times by a small army of girls aged 7-12, or stare at a potting kiln in terror. Trimming the hedges works well but you can only trim the hedges so often. Channeling the specially destructive brand of negative energy that arises with airplane delays, holiday traffic, or any sort of emotional crap poses grave problems. This is where woodworking comes in. Let me take pains to be precise about this. I don’t mean exacting work with fancy saws and twenty layers of lacquer, a binder of blueprints, and a fully equipped workshop.
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