7 DAY CHALLENGE - REDUCE YOUR STRESS AND ANXIETY - START NOW!
Channel: Authentic Mental Health
Date: 2019-09-28

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Do you want to be less stressed?

Do you want to feel less anxious?

Of course you do! 

In this 7 day challenge you are going to learn exactly how you can do that!

Do you find yourself awake at 3 am with a million thoughts racing around your head? 

Does your body feel extremely tight and tense from all the stress you have inside you?

If you do you don’t have to worry anymore because in this video you are going to learn how to reduce your stress and anxiety in less than 7 days! 

All you need to do is find 30 minutes a day to follows these very easy 4 steps. I recommend finding the time in the morning so you can feel less anxious and stressed for your day ahead.

Are you ready? Of course you are! Let’s de stress and reduce your anxiety! 

Step 1 - Check in - How are you currently feeling? Anxious? Stressed? Sad? Overwhelmed? Insecure? The first step it to recognise how you’re feeling. Research shows that once you label the emotion you’re feeling it allows emotional processing to start taking place helping you to feel better.

Step 2 - Breathe - Slow, smooth breathing is the quickest and easiest way to calm your stress response and activate your rest and relax system in just a few seconds. Use the "belly breath" technique in a five-count breathing pattern. Relax your shoulders. Inhale slowly for 5 counts, exhale slowly for 5 counts. Remember to belly breathe, letting your stomach expand and shrink back down with each breath. Imagine a paper bag slowly filling with air, and then deflating. Focus on breathing this way for at least 5 minutes.

Step 3 - Write and let go - This is the time to declutter your anxious and stressed mind. Whatever you’re feeling or experiencing write it down, what’s been going on in your life, what are you anxious or stressed about? What happened to make you feel this way? What are you worrying about? Write down the first thing that comes to your mind. Once you have written down everything rip that paper up! Yes rip up the piece of paper and let go of those emotions!

Step 4 - Walking - Walking is amazing for your body and mind. Take a 10 minute walk, it doesn’t matter where you walk, it could be around a park or around where you live it doesn’t matter, whilst walking use all your senses, what do you smell? What do you see? How does the wind feeling against your arms? Take in what you can see whilst you’re walking, by using your senses you are staying in the present moment and not thinking about the future, we are only interested in this present moment of time!

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