The proper way to breathe is not with your chest but with your.....?
Diaphragm: The diaphragm is a thin skeletal muscle that sits at the base of the chest and separates the abdomen from the chest. It contracts and flattens when you inhale. This creates a vacuum effect that pulls air into the lungs. When you exhale, the diaphragm relaxes and the air is pushed out of lungs.
How can writing/ journaling be used as a coping skill?
The act of thinking about an experience, as well as expressing emotions are important.
Writing helps people organize thoughts and give meaning to a traumatic experience. Or the process of writing may enable them to learn how to regulate their emotions.
Why is it important to have healthy boundaries with others?
To share personal information appropriately (not too much or not too little)
Understand your personal needs and wants and know how to communicate them.
Accept when others tell you “no”
It is okay to get angry
Yes. Anger is a natural emotion to experience and feel. As long as you deal with it in a healthy way.
How 3 ways mindfulness be helpful during stressful situations?
Relieve stress
Treat Heart disease
Lower blood pressure
reduce chronic pain
Improve sleep
Reduce rumination/ distress tolerance
Decrease anxiety, negative thoughts, emotional reactivity
Helps focus our attention on important factors
Cultivate Awareness
Change attitude: non-judgmental, curious, kind
Learn acceptance: yourself and others
AND MORE....
It belongs to you, but your friends use it more. What is it?
Your Name