Three ways to reduce feeling anxious or panicky – right here, right now
- Stop whatever you are doing and find a comfortable place to sit : step away from any PC, laptop or phone. If you’re ‘doing nothing’ except pacing about, being assailed by doubts, uncertainties, fears about some future event, same thing, find a comfortable seat. Then, with your hands on your knees, with eyes open or closed, begin ‘breath following’. Don’t do anything except ‘watch’ your breathing, notice how it is – shallow, short breaths, or longer ones? Try two or three minutes at first. Gradually, each inhalation and exhalation will slow of their own accord.
- Tap your knees with your hands three or four times, saying to yourself, ‘this is me, Josephine Bloggs, here I am’.
- Lastly, alternately raise your heels and toes slowly, six or seven times, then wiggle your toes in your shoes briefly
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