Mindfulness
When filling the "What You Emotions Feel Like" table, be sure to record all that you feel in the body and mind when the emotions are encountered.
Mindfulness Practice:
- Close your eyes and contemplate a situation that often triggers anxious episodes - imagine the people, the setting, sounds, and smells.
- Now internalize those emotions and notice where in your body you feel that stress or anxiety. Focus on what these sensations feel like. Then imagine yourself breathing into these parts of your body, slowly breathing into those spots. With each breath, you are breathing some serenity and peace into those areas, and breathing out fear and anxiety.
- Breathing in serenity...
- Breathing out anxiety...
- Breathing in peace...
- Breathing out fear...
Feel free to adjust the words to best fit your personality or the feelings experienced during the anxious episodes.
