From the course: Tips for Finding Calm and Reducing Stress

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Unfurl your mind and body

Unfurl your mind and body

From the course: Tips for Finding Calm and Reducing Stress

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Unfurl your mind and body

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- Let's get into the soma, the body, with this quick but effective somatic tension releasing skill. Start by curling your body into a fetal position. That means that your forehead is aiming to meet your knees. If it helps, you can hug your knees into your chest and tuck your head between your knees. If you're in an office chair, this may mean that while sitting in your chair, you curl your body into itself. Be sure to do this safely and within a stable chair if it helps. Keep your feet on the ground or sit on the ground for better balance. Now that we've got the posture, I'd like for you to squeeze every muscle of your body into itself almost as if someone is giving your entire body a really tight hug. Stay here and breathe deeply for 10 seconds. Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Now slowly, and I mean at a turtle's pace, begin to unfurl your body. Start by releasing the tight body hug. Then begin to open up your body inch by inch, slow and steady as if getting…

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