![]() Self-hug – put the left hand on the side of the ribs and the right hand holding the elbow.Cup your chin between your thumb and index finger.Rub your hands together and put your middle fingers in the notch just behind your ear lobe and other fingers along the neck and cheeks - heal of the hands meeting, humming if you feel comfortable.Tap on the back of the hand between the little finger and ring finger.It can be a useful practice to start the day with one of the exercises below and then regularly throughout the day. ![]() The earlier you do them when you notice you are starting to feel ‘off’ or distressed, the better they will work - don’t wait until you are at a crisis point. There are lots of breathing techniques that help, although just taking some deep breaths will help too.īelow is a small sample of techniques from energy psychotherapy modalities that will help calm your nervous system. If you want to change this, first you need to start calming your nervous system down and do it regularly. Most people are functioning from a survival response some of the time, if not most of the time. Making decisions if you feel you need to get it ‘right’ activates judgement, which then activates the survival response.įunctioning from these survival responses is habitual and may be difficult to notice.If we are imagining adversarial events, this will also activate the survival response. Our own thoughts - if we are having hostile conversations in our head, with ourselves or an imagined other.Note that it doesn’t actually have to be unsafe, just feel unsafe. Relationships - if we have difficult relationships where we feel unsafe this will trigger a survival response. ![]()
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