There’s this super simple stress calming trick that’s gone viral called “Five Finger Breathing” and Sisanie shared it's so easy to do anywhere:
You hold out one hand with your fingers relaxed and spread, then trace up the outside of your thumb as you slowly inhale and trace down the other side as you exhale.
You keep going finger by finger, inhaling as you trace up and exhaling as you trace down.
By the time you finish all five fingers, you’ve taken five slow, intentional breaths without even thinking too hard about it.
The tracing helps pull your mind away from spiraling thoughts and back into your body so your nervous system shifts from stressed to calm.
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Episode Transcript
Today is Tuesday, November eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Now sistany when someone needs to just chill all little bit,
take a deep breath, calm down.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I could use something every now and then you get
little worked up. I like to breathe.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Breathing does help, right, Just take a breath, don't respond,
don't react, don't have a knee jerk reaction. Something you
can do with your hands, and it works to simmer exactly.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I feel like, no matter what, all of us just
need to calm down. So there is a simple stress
calming trick that's gone viral, and it's called the five
finger breathing. Okay, so you hold out your hand like this,
like with your fingers all spread out.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Pep one hand on the wheel.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Right now if you're driving, but your other one you
have your five I guess sely you're gonna.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Be both hands. You're driving, all right, So you trace.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
You start with your thumb and with your other hand
you trace the outline of your finger and go finger
by finger inhaling as you trace up, exhaling as you
trace down, and you go all across your hand up
and down, up and down.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And it really does soothe you.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It's the it's combining the breathing and the physical sensation.
Doing both of those at the same time helps you
detach anything that's like spiraling in your mind, your spiraling thoughts,
things like that, and it kind of just brings your
nervous system back into normal. It shifts everything and all
the stress out and I feel like this is going
(01:26):
to change your life.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
It's so simple to do. So you're welcome on air
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