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Box Breathing

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Box Breathing

While many of us are finding the news and potential changes from our government overwhelming and upsetting, I am sending you a strategy to bring you back to a regulated state. It is called Box Breathing.


For myself, I am trying to regulate the amount of news I am reading or listening to while trying to focus inward on my home, my family, my work. But even with that, there are many more moments these days where I hear something that upsets me or I connect with someone else who may wish to process something they have heard. During those moments, I choose to bring myself back into the moment through Box Breathing. If you have heard of it, this is a refresher. If you haven't heard of it, I hope you find this helpful. Either way, I welcome you to try it in moments when you can feel your heart beat pick up, your breath becoming shallow, your mind starting to race. Step away, close your eyes and imagine a box or draw one on a napkin or a piece of paper... and breathe in, hold, breathe out, hold. Repeat as needed.


Sending peace your way~

Barb Avila

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