Use Breathing To Regulate Your Nervous System & Decrease Your Stress

Using our breath to help decrease our stress in the moment is incredibly helpful and important.

Follow the prompts in this picture.

Breathe in for a count of 3.

Hold for 3.

Breathe out for a count of 3.

The breathing out slowly helps brings online the parasympathetic system (to rest & calm & settle the body & nervous system).

This technique has a name called:

Boxed breathing- a technique of breathing in for 3 seconds, holding for 3 seconds, and exhaling slowly for 3 seconds helps regulate anxiousness or triggered moments, stressful moments.

You can do it multiple times as long as you don’t get lightheaded.

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They can help you process through challenging and difficult circumstances or past memories & experiences.

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It’s helpful to be aware of how we are feeling at different moments and what we are noticing- the tension or stress or anxiousness we feel. (Self-awareness)

You can also use other additional positive coping strategies to boxed breathing not mentioned in this post. Boxed breathing has been the most advantageous one for myself.

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