Have you considered journaling your thoughts?
Journaling is the practice of writing down your daily thoughts. This can improve mental clarity and help reduce stress. For some, it can even be an outlet for when difficult things happen or a lovely reminder when good things happen... This is the exercise we are presenting today:
Notice your breath, then take a moment to write down three things that made you happy today. Be kind to yourself, avoid judging or labelling your notes. Simply write down in all honesty what gave you joy and cheered you up. Then, gently go back to your day.
See if you can repeat this exercise regularly during the weekend and this coming week. Write down the sources of your daily joys and delights.
Have a great weekend
The Psychosocial Centre
Feeling stressed? Slow down and take a few deep breaths to ground yourself. Slow deep breathing is a great way to calm your body and mind. Slowly bring your attention to your breath. Sensing it without judgement, how does it feel ? Is it quick or slow? Where is it located? is it in your chest or in your belly?
For this exercise, place one hand on your chest and the other on your belly. Notice which hand raises and falls with each breath you take. Is it the hand on your chest? Or the hand on your belly? Or both? Try deepening your breath until only your bottom hand is moving. Take a moment to notice your lower hand raising and falling with your deeper breaths.
Take 5 deep breaths then gently come back to your day.Have a lovely weekend,The Psychosocial Centre
This week, we invite you to try a calming stretching exercise inspired from Tai Chi and Oi Gong practice. It combines gentle body movement with breathing and has a great grounding effect.
Start with both your arms in front of you. Stretched outward but in a relaxed way.
Lower a first hand and, making a circular movement, stretch it backwards and then up to the level of your head. Finish the movement by rejoining your hands in front of you, then do the same with your other hand. The complete movement, as shown in the video, looks a bit like swimming strokes.
Breathe in while your hand drops down, stretches back and goes up, and breathe out as you rejoin your hands in front of you.
Take your time, enjoy, try feeling your body and how it moves. Try feeling the stretch when your hands are furthest apart from each other, one in front, the other in the back.
Have a lovely weekend,
The Psychosocial Centre
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