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Stress Busting Exercise
Ideally this exercise will be done lying on your back, but can be done seated or standing (preferably leaning against a wall).
Place your hands on your chest, close your eyes, and take a few gentle breathes. See how your body feels when you do this. Is it easy? Do you get easy to connection to how your body feels or does it increase pain or stress? This is position one.
Move your hands down to over your stomach area (where your ribs come together). Breathe into this area. Notice how your body feels. Is it relaxed or awkward. This is position two. Compare it to position one. Which is the easiest for you?
Move your hands to over your navel. Breathe several times into this area, noticing how it feels. Do you feel a sense of relief because you've found an area that works, or is this more difficult to connect to than the first two? This is position three.
Breathe a couple of times into each area and decide which area you feel most and least comfortable in. You have achieved your first goal, because you already understand more about your body than you did a few minutes ago and that will help your brain to process some of your stress.
Now focus your attention on the area that was most comfortable. As you breathe here, notice how the area moves. How does this feel? How does this affect your overall body awareness. Then move your hands to the area of difficulty. Notice the movement and breath here. What's different? Do you become more aware of pain Does your mind wander? By moving betweem the area of ease to the area of difficulty many people can bring more ease into the area where they feel stressed and disconnected. A top tip is to always spend more time in the area that is easy and always end up there.
This provides the basics for your stress busting exercise. For many, it can help you to calm down before a stressful meeting, often it can help you to switch off an overactive mind before sleeping. Five minutes a day doing this will help you become more aware of how your body handles stress (your environment) and how this "shows up" in your body.
For some people this exercise alone is enough, but for others they need expert help to get the full benefit of this technique. If you would like to find out more about this powerful approach to handling stress and improving overall wellbeing, come and do an SRI Discover Class in the practice. Follow this link for details.
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