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4 Easy Steps to Calm a Stressed Child
If you work with children who struggle with self-regulation, mind-body strategies that use yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and guided imagery can be especially effective, and often fun, for the child to gain their composure. Use this activity, called The Steps, at home, in the grocery store, or wherever life takes you.
Simple Breath Awareness: An exercise to fight stress, anxiety and insomnia
You can use this simple breath awareness exercise from the classic text, “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali," in a therapy session to help the client direct their attention to internal states and balance their autonomic nervous system.
Lion Breathing
Melt stress and tension from your face
For all the time we spend stretching our body, how often do we pause to stretch our face? With Lion Breathing you can quickly and easily relieve stress and tension by stretching your face.
MBSR-T Interventions: Pleasant Life Moments & Events Calendar
Learn how Gina Biegel uses Pleasant Life Moments in her work with teens
In this video, Gina Biegel, creator of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Teens (MBSR-T), shares her Pleasant Life Moments and Pleasant Events Calendar interventions. They are powerful teen-focused mindfulness practices that draw awareness to the many positive moments and activities in daily life.
Behavioral Stress Tolerance Plan: A worksheet for therapists and clients
An excellent way to manage both your stress and your client’s is to incorporate a Behavioral Stress Tolerance Plan. Get the worksheet and find out how it's different from most emotional management plans.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: A free technique to implement today.
Can a raisin transform your life? It’s possible. If you want to give your clients the skill to live in the present moment and help them put stress and pain behind them, take a few minutes to watch this video by MBSR expert Elana Rosenbaum.
The Mindful Check-In: Bringing stressed clients into the present moment.
Are you working with a client suffering from anxiety, PTSD, depression or any other stress-related condition? This technique can keep their mind from wandering.
Emotional Freedom Technique: Tapping to better emotional health
Can you tap yourself to better emotional health? Watch and learn as Linda Curran, LPC and president of Integrative Trauma Treatment, LLC, demonstrates EFT.