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🙌 How can we best help ourselves when we become anxious?



Uncommon Practitioners presents six powerful reframing metaphors for anxiety treatments in this youtube recording 👇

🙌 It's 20 minutes long but worth watching till the end!

👉@ 4:58 TIP ONE: Understand how the fear instinct is led in part by what we do. We can train this powerful ‘guard dog’. Avoidance will build fear, while staying or approaching the feared situation will diminish it. Remember, this ‘approach’ can be done psychologically during deep relaxation to quickly retag the situation as non-threatening.

👉@ 6:52 TIP TWO: Name the feeling, either out loud (if appropriate), internally, or by writing it down. Explain that this has been shown to lessen anxiety even in people who didn’t believe it would!

👉@ 10:01 TIP THREE: Breathe out longer and more slowly than they breathe in. This will quickly turn off anxiety (which requires that we breathe in rapidly in preparation for heavy exercise).

👉@ 13:41 TIP FOUR: Grade their anxiety, then decide what number they would be happy with in this situation and ‘breathe their way down’ to that level.

👉@ 16:04 TIP FIVE: Utilize regular exercise as a way of minimizing stress and anxiety. You could even have them do short intense bursts of exercise before a stressful event if it’s practical to do so.

👉@ 18:57 TIP SIX: Use the AWARE technique and carry a card with the steps if need be.

Take care,

Magda xx

https://youtu.be/k3nYvdj3A7I

Dr Chatterjee shares his advice and insight on how we can attend to our well being in these challenging times:

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"There are many things at the moment that you might not be able to control: your work situation, how quickly the virus is spreading, the media reporting, the government strategy etc.

But there are many things that you absolutely CAN control:

- Your attitude
- Your daily routine
- Moving your body
- Phoning a loved one
- Being kind
- Only watching the news once each day

I get that all of us are experiencing this situation differently. For some of us, it is tougher than for others. However, no matter your situation, the best way to get through it is to focus on what you can control rather than what you can’t"

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Take care and stay safe.
Magda xx

✨And a few photos of me and my chair and the therapies I delivered on a fundraising event 'Happiness Inside and Out' ✨

Samantha Jane Lindsay MacGregor Inglis Sandra Davidson Maria Doherty Naseem Akhtar

✨Thank you to you all who shared, liked, commented and who came to the event 🙌👍🌈

Magda x