The body's energy fields run cross-ways (left side of brain to right side of body and vice versa.) Stress can disrupt this.
To restore natural energy flow and bring calm, lie on your back with legs crossed at the ankles. Cross your arms over your chest to form an X.
Close your eyes and imagine being in a calm place. Hold this pose for a minute, breathing in and out slowly and deeply. The breathing should help even if you don't do the x-move.
Task Focus
Improve concentration and relieve tension: press your tongue to the roof of your mouth, tip behind your front teeth. Breathe deeply three times.
Relieve Brain Freeze
If your mind goes blank and you can't think, doodle a clockwise spiral on paper with your pen, then trace it counterclockwise with your finger six times, breathing deeply. This action is supposed to re-center your body's chi flow to promote clear thinking.
Stomach Ache
A reflexology trick to relieve stomach tension due to anxiety:
Hold your left hand palm up.
Press your right thumb midway between the index finger and thumb, as if you're ringing a doorbell. Hold three seconds. (But keep breathing slowly and deeply, don't hold your breath.)
Repeat ten times.
Breathing Techniques to Relax
Inhale: take a long, deep, slow breath.Exhale as slowly and smoothly as you can, while letting your muscles "drop."
If you are sitting, imagine you're releasing all your tension into your chair.
If you're standing, release all tension and negative energy into the floor or the ground.
Repeat if necessary.
Get to sleep
To sleep, breathe in deeply and exhale slowly with your eyes closed.
Visualize a tranquil scene--like a forest, meadow, beach, or even an empty, white room.
Dismiss other thoughts that come into your head, go back to the calm place.
If other thoughts keep coming into your calm place, crowd them out by sending a blessing to every family member and friend you can think of, those who have passed and those who are still living. You will probably not get finished before you fall asleep.
Confrontations
Take a deep breath to keep calm when faced with a confrontational adult or a child having a tantrum.
A person stuck in anger won't be receptive to whatever you have to say, so if you have to say something, be sympathetic but don't make suggestions to solve the problem. Try, "I'm so sorry, you must feel so bad..."
The key is to show empathy and compassion for their feelings instead of getting angry yourself.
With kids, a neutral face and overpowering stance can be threatening, so try to kneel down to their level and knit your brows together, crease your forehead, put on a face of sympathy and sorrow for their troubles.
When they've calmed down, you can talk about the issue.
Teach your children, by example, to "take a breath" and take time to think before speaking in anger.
When pressed for an answer in a stressful situation, just say, "Give me a minute to consider that."
Take a deep, relaxing breath and think about what should be said.
When pressed for an answer in a stressful situation, just say, "Give me a minute to consider that."
Take a deep, relaxing breath and think about what should be said.
If taking a breath isn't enough to help you stay calm, remove yourself from the situation if you can. Take a walk.
Using breathing techniques to eliminate tension and anxiety can help you avoid stress-related symptoms like excessive weight gain or loss, smoking, sleeplessness, ulcers, and digestive problems.
Using breathing techniques to eliminate tension and anxiety can help you avoid stress-related symptoms like excessive weight gain or loss, smoking, sleeplessness, ulcers, and digestive problems.
