You're stressed. And it's time to calm it down.
If you leave stress and you too long, it's going to cause some problems.
So yeah, I'm going to walk you through some really good techniques of how to bring
that stress level down. Watch closely. This is perfect timing for you.
Alright, something happened. Oh, it's time to calm down right? How do you calm
down? Well, let's get right to it because you need some help right now on how to
calm down. First off, let's just get into this.
Breathing. Breathing is really important to be able to manage stress. Manage
whatever just happened. And it's called the force. So, whenever something happens
to me I got to go right to my breathing. To manage my breathing so I can manage
my emotions. Because trying to manage my emotions and not manage
my breathing. If my breathing gets really short and fast, is triggers emotions. And
then no matter how much I'm trying to manage my emotions, they just keep coming
back and keep coming back. So, it's called the force. And what you do is you just
imagine a square and you're going to breathe in and just for a count of 3,
1, 2, 3. So, it's a breathe in and then you hold for three. And then you
breathe out for 3 and then you breathe in for 3 and then you hold
for 3 and then you breathe out. So you're literally doing three seconds of
breathing in, hold for 3 seconds, breathe out for 3 seconds. Hold for
3 seconds. So, each corner is 3 seconds and each line is 3 seconds.
And just that simple one step helps me control my breathing.
So, my breathing doesn't get short and out of control. Because out of control
breathing is out of control emotions. So, if I can manage my breathing, I can
manage how I feel. Whatever just happened, just breathe yourself through it. And
then hold for 3 seconds breathe out. Hold for 3 seconds, breathe in for
3 seconds. Breathe out for 3 seconds and just control that breathing.
And when you're breathing is managed, your emotions get managed and then your
mind can come back to being conscious of what's happening instead of
acting to what just happened so coming back to that consciousness of you're in
control, you can think this through and you can make some decisions of what to
do next. That one is a big one and I use it all the time. When something goes
weird or goes bad or something goes on in my life. The next one of what to do
has to do with stretching. Now, if I reach a stress level that I just... It just
won't let go, it won't go away, I know that I probably have stress that's been
soaked into literally my muscle and that those muscles can get tight. And then
they can... The muscle can be stressed. And then when I try to use my breathing
techniques and it doesn't calm everything down, I know I probably have a
tightness either in my neck or my back or sometimes my calves or the bottom of
my feet. And I need to stretch. And so, in our house, we have lots of different
rollers that we use that we can roll our feet on. Or I can sit on this and roll on
the floor of it. Kind of stretch my my backside muscles out. Like my lower back,
if that gets stressed, then it stresses me all day long. But if I can roll out my
backside and loosen it, I can let go of that stress. So a roller like this to
have in your home to stretch is super super valuable. This is another roller
type of technique. They use this for like rolling like your shins or the top part
of your thigh. And or you can roll the sides or the lower back or even your
tummy with this. And even with your on your neck. But we... In this house, we have
lots of rollers to help us stretch. Just because we have big goals. And sometimes
when you have big goals, there can be big challenges and so we know we got to
manage our breathing and also be able to stretch out those muscles that are tight
or physically stressed. Another one that helps us in this home to be able to
manage our stress level and bring that calmness into our
is warm liquid. Meaning, like we'll make a honey drink. Like you get really, really
warm water. Put about to taste tablespoons of honey in that just
something kind of sweet but really warm. And that warm liquid, that the honey part
kind of makes a nice little coating on the inside of your throat. It just feels
comforting. You know, it's really, really good. Or of course, the good old hot cocoa
kind of a drink. Sometimes that's a little too much. But to drink something
warm or go sit in warm liquid. Like maybe you need to go soak in the tub. Maybe you
need to fill that tub full of warm water you need to get in there and just simmer
you down in that tub. I know sometimes we think, "Oh, I'm going to go take a hot bath
because I just want to have a spa moment." But many times this is a way to
de-stress. And then of course, let me use some essential oils in there to keep the
aroma in a good place. In fact, that is my next one, is essential oils. To find the
one that helps you go into that calmness. I personally like lavender and I know it
sounds weird. But I have my own collection that I found my favorite oils
that I use that help me calm down. And I have lavender that I'll put on my hands
or I'll put on the back of my neck or I'll put this in a diffuser and put that
in my office or my bedroom where it's at. And it just creates that atmosphere of
calmness. But this these 2 right here, super valuable. And reducing that stress
level or whatever is happening. Then the last one here is to walk it out. And it's
not like a walk 20 miles or run. It's literally just go for a lazy walk. You
know, you might need to go for a walk by yourself. Just you can think and kind of
unwind a little bit. And it's not to go walk to meet neighbors. It's just a walk.
Get outside, get away from things. Walk away from the house for a little bit.
Just to get some fresh air and and just kind of getting into a different
atmosphere. But these 5 right here have helped me
through a lot of situations in my life where if I didn't have these, oh my
goodness I'd be a basket case. But there's no reason to stay in that stress
level. No reason at all because there's something you can do about it. You can
choose any of these or all of these. But this is my go-to list. And if Kim was
standing here, she would say pretty much the exact same thing here too. But
remember the first one you can go to that's just instant right there on the
spot is to manage and to calm that breathing. Because if we can manage our
breathing, we can begin to manage our emotions. It's powerful. Stress will burn
out your body. And stress can cause you to feel hopeless and helpless and
powerless. So, the longer you stay in stress, you keep going deeper into that
hopeless and helpless feeling and that can create a feeling of that
powerlessness. And that's not a good place to be in. So take action on what's
going on with your stress level. And these can help you bring that way, way,
way, way down. So, you can take care of or fix whatever has happened in your life.
Awesome. Well, this... I share this with you because
sooner or later you're going to have a stressful moment. Might as well have a
game plan, might as well have an idea. So that stress does not take over your life.
And as a parent, you know where we usually unwind our stress is on our kids.
Or our spouse. And that's not healthy. It's not good to unwind our stress on
our spouse. It's not good to take it out on our children. In verbal or our
attitude. It's not good because if that stress leaves us and goes into our
spouse, now we've stressed our spouse out. And if it goes into our children, now we
stressed our children out. And then what are they going to do with it?
They're either going to keep it or they got to unwind it back on you. And so
that's not good. How about you be the person in your
family or your relationship that can manage it. And that you can calm down.
But be wise about that. Don't unload on people. Do something yourself to be
able to calm that down. That's the smart path to take. Well here at 3 key
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