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Tag: Stress Management

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice 5, 5 or 5 Tool The 5, 5 or 5 tool helps with procrastination and overwhelm and can kick-start your motivation. Which 5 will you choose? 5 Seconds When you think about a positive behavior, take action within five (5) seconds. Have the idea to…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Burrito Wrap This tool provides comforting proprioceptive input to calm your senses and soothe the nervous system to restore balance and peace. Here’s how! Grab a cozy blanket or a weighted blanket to feel more grounded. Wrap the blanket around yourself, rolling yourself up like…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Hot-Spot Scan ‘Hot spots’ are places in the body that hold anxiety, anger, and stress. If you hold tension in your body, the body sends a message to your brain that you are in danger, keeping you stuck in a stress-tension feedback loop and…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Name Your Emotion Naming our emotions can be healing and helpful. It allows us to create space for how we feel while we are processing the emotion. Externalizing emotions can help to down-regulate the limbic system and amygdala (the emotion centers in the brain).…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Psychological Sigh Have you ever noticed the double inhale followed by the long sighing exhale that happens after an emotional release such as, a big cry? This instinctual recalibrating breath is called a physiological sigh. It is a rapid way to calm anxiety and…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Ground in Nature Nature soothes and heals. A quick change in environment can help manage overwhelming emotions. Pause what you are doing and step outside. You could take a nature walk, light hike, visit a local park or stroll around the block. It might…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Draw Your Emotion You do not need to be an artist! Grab some paper and get out of your head by intuitively drawing your emotion. How big is it? What color is it? What texture is it? What shape is it? Are the lines…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Connect A safe and warm connection with someone you trust provides co-regulation; you can ‘borrow’ their calm. When you are stuck in a rut and feeling down or blue you might notice that you withdraw from others. You may find that you isolate yourself…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Aroma Bombs Shake a couple of essential oil drops into the palm of your hands. Cup your hands together, making a little space between your thumbs for your nose. Take a lovely deep inhale of the aroma bomb. Try: Peppermint for when you are…

  • Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice Low Stimulation Sensory Shower 🚿 We can often rush through our showers, with our minds on many other things. This low-stimulation shower invites us to linger with our senses, melting tension away and restoring calm. Pick and choose from the following ideas: Turn the…