When strong feelings emerge, and you want to react, take a few moments to do the following centering exercise, repeating it as often as you can. Sit down in a quiet safe place and take three deep breaths…….Now take two more breaths more slowly…..more deeply……down into your diaphragm... Using you senses, notice
The regular practice of progressive muscle relaxation can go a long way toward helping you to better manage your anxiety, face your fears, overcome panic, and feel better all round. Benefits will be obtained by practicing at least once a day, for 15-20 minutes. Twice a day is ideal, but once is better than not at all. Assume a comfortable position...
The calming breath exercise was adapted from the ancient discipline of yoga. It is a very efficient technique for achieving a deep state of relaxation quickly. It can be a potent technique for halting the momentum of a panic reaction when the first signs of anxiety come on. How to do the Calming Breath Exercise...
Resiliency, then, is the ability to recognise and identify limited thinking, being able to pause it, reflecting on and identifying the truth, locking that truth into place through repetition and then acting from that focus. The key to resiliency in depression is self-awareness, becoming intimate with your self (in-to-me-see), and being
Physical and verbal abuse is an outward expression of frustration. Frustration runs on a continuum from slightly frustrated to extremely frustrated or anger. Frustration occurs when mind and emotion are in conflict, when thoughts interfere with the flow of love. The mind holds an expectation of how things should be,