Your Low-Stress Guide to Leveling-Up Your Bedtime Routine
Are You Burnt Out or Depressed?
Work can be stressful on our brains, but also our bodies.
If youre feeling stressed, take a moment toperform a full-body scan.
The results might surprise youare you subconciously clenching your teeth?
Are your shoulders tense, pushed up near your ears?
How about your forehead, is it scrunched, with your eyes straining to better see your screen?
Stephanie Rae is a somatic experiencing, embodiment and breathwork practitioner and sex & intimacy coach at Breathe, Burn, Rise in Chicago.
Save this one and use it once a day during your work week!
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1 minute of self awareness can change your whole day/mood.
Our jaw is usually one of the first places we tense up, says Rae.
Unclench your teeth and relax.
After that, shake your hands out, opening and closing your fists and stretching your fingers.
Let all excess energy go!
Then, move on to your eyes, rolling them from side to side and blinking occasionally.
Rae says that when we focus or get in the zone, we can get tunnel visionliterally.
Stephanie Rae is a somatic experiencing, embodiment and breathwork practitioner and sex & intimacy coach at Breathe, Burn, Rise in Chicago.
Move your eyes around.
Side to side and up and down, says Rae.
This helps prevent migraines and tension headaches.
For the final step, take three deep belly breaths, inhaling and exhaling fully.
This is the fastest way to reconnect with your body and self.
Notice a clearer mind and less tension almost immediately, Rae says.
Emails, Slacks, deadlinestheyll all get done.
Give your body and brain a break for just a minute.
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