Train for Life

Category: Awareness

  • Wellness Wednesday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Bilateral Stimulation Thigh Taps Thigh taps are a useful tool for when we are in a public space and feeling anxious, triggered, overwhelmed, or dissociated. No one will know what we are doing! It is especially easy to hide if we are sitting at a…

  • Wellness Wednesday

    Bilateral stimulation can help us process emotions and memories by activating both hemispheres of our brain. It can also help us center our focus, providing a gentle way to stay grounded and connected to our body.

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Savor A Scent Find something that has a calming scent such as, a candle, hot chocolate, coffee beans, a flower, essential oils or moisturizer, and savor it. Here’s how! Close your eyes. Bring the object to your nose and inhale slowly. Describe the scent to…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice  Safe Place Create a ‘safe place’ in your mind. You can return to this safe space any time you need to reset yourself and find a sense of peace and calm. Here’s how! Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths. Bring to mind…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Breathing-Rate Record This simple exercise provides us with feedback on our breathing rate which can let us know if our body is in a stress response. Let’s find out how many breaths you take per minute! Set a timer on your phone (or other…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. This week’s calming practice is a moving breath sequence. Let’s bring some calming and uplifting energy into our day as we sync our breath and body with this moving-breath practice.

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. This week’s calming practice is experiencing mindfulness as we listen to music.

  • Welcome August

    The focus of this month is maintaining or improving the quality of your relationships, at work, home, and with yourself.

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Ocean Breath Ocean breath (also called Ujjayi breathing) is a pranayama technique to help us to feel more calm and centered. Here’s how! Create a gentle constriction in your throat so that your inhale and exhale (through your nose) makes an audible sound like an…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Twists Twists help to bring balance to our nervous system. They are calming when we feel anxious and stressed and uplifting when we feel flat and stuck. Here are a few ways you can use twists: Seated Twist: Start in a seated position, inhale deeply…