Stress & Anxiety Resources
Tips and Tools to Help Calm Stress and Anxiety
Emotional Freedom Techniques
This video teaches calming stress reduction techniques, known as "tapping," that can help alleviate stress. You can practice these right where you are, or at any time during your day! Give it a try!
Simple tools and ideas to create a space for yourself
Mindful Practice With Danica
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The Cycle of Anxiety
When left untreated and unaddressed, anxiety has a tendency to grow. This is explained by the cycle of anxiety.
How to do Deep Breathing
Deep breathing is a relaxation technique that will help you reduce stress and anxiety. This video provides a brief description of deep breathing followed by guided practice.
Try some of these tips to cope with your stress:
Take care of yourself. Eat well-balanced meals on a regular basis. Drink less caffeine. Get enough sleep, and exercise on a regular basis.
Make a list of the things that are causing your stress. Think about your friends, family, school, and other activities. Accept that you can’t control everything on your list.
Take control of what you can. For example, maybe you don’t have enough time to study to get the grades you want. You may need to cut back your work hours. Or you might have to drop one of your activities after school.
Give yourself a break. Remember that you can’t make everyone in your life happy all the time. And it’s okay to make mistakes now and then.
Don’t over-commit yourself. If you’re already too busy, don’t promise to decorate for the school dance. If you’re tired and don’t want to go out, tell your friends you’ll go another night.
Find someone to talk to. Talking to your friends or family can help. It gives you a chance to express your feelings. If you feel like you can’t talk to your family or a friend, talk to someone outside the situation.
Why Does Relaxation Help Us?
Relaxation helps by calming the body down, helping us to think more rationally, relaxes our muscles, switches off the nervous system, stops the production of stress hormones (as an example adrenalin) and proves we are not in danger.
If we have been anxious for awhile relaxation can be practiced regularly to help the body to get used to being relaxed.
Mindful Breathing Exercises for Relaxation
Quick Mindful Breathing Exercise
Counting Breath Exercise
Forgiving Yourself Exercise
Guided Relaxation Before Bed Exercise
How Mindfulness Empowers Us
Mindfulness allows us to see our thoughts and feelings as they really are, freeing us from old ways of thinking.
"Relaxation helps you to achieve a clear and calm mind!"
Being the Warrior, NOT the Worrier!
These TED talks address the differences between stress and anxiety, ways to combat anxiety and ideas on how to cope with anxiety.
Stress Management Workshop
In case you missed it! Check out this discussion on stress.
What is Stress?
What does it feel like?
How do I manage it?