For When You're Feeling Tight & Anxious

Anxiety and stress can leave your body tight and your mind tense. Connecting to your breath and to the length of your body can help you move out of fight or flight and into a calmer, more grounded state. Join me for this simple and short breathing and imagery exercise.

Transcript

Begin by taking a gentle breath in through your nose and out through your mouth. As you breathe, Noticing the entire length of your spine, All the way from where it starts up behind your eyes, All the way down to where it ends between your sits bones. As you breathe, Just letting your breath wash up and down the length of your spine. And then as you continue to breathe, Allowing the breath to wash up and down the entire length of your body, The top of your head, All the way down to the tips of your toes. You might wiggle your toes or move your eyebrows around just to feel the sense of how far apart those two spaces are. And taking some breaths into the entire length of your body, Noticing what it feels like to be aware of the length of your body in this way and the length of your spine. Taking a few more breaths in and out. If your eyes were closed, You can gently begin to open them, Making some gentle movements and just noticing if you can stay connected to anything about this sense of length and space as you go about the rest of your day.