SEL: Coping Strategies
Square breathing is a type of breath-work that can shift your energy, connect you more deeply with your body, calm your nervous system, and decrease stress in your body. You inhale while counting to 4, hold breath while counting to 4, exhale while counting to 4, repeat 4 times.
Riding the Wave is simply acknowledging the emotion you may be feeling, while practicing deep breathing, staying present, and reminding yourself that this feeling will pass. Repeating this process over and over until the feeling passes.
Riding the Wave is simply acknowledging the emotion you may be feeling, while practicing deep breathing, staying present, and reminding yourself that this feeling will pass. Repeating this process over and over until the feeling passes.
Remember every emotion will eventually pass allowing for some relief. If we practice coping skills over and over eventually they start to become second nature and become more effective.
Positive Self Talk, Sometimes all we have is the power of our own self-talk. Positive thinking can take our lives in a new direction. There are several ways to engage in positive thinking.
- Deconstruct the negative thoughts. Challenge the thoughts and the source. Tell your self the negative thought is not true.
- Reframe the negative thoughts into positive, alternative thoughts.
- Rehearse positive and encouraging thoughts. Say affirmations every morning and every evening. Even if you don't believe the positive thoughts at first, the more you say them, the more you start to believe them.
