This is a useful tool for relieving stress and anxiety and is called a Muscle Tension and Release Exercise. It is a useful way to enhance the relief of anxiety and can be used any time of the day though will also be useful, when engaged with before sleep.

This exercise involves you visualising and working through the audio. The more you use it and practise it, the easier you can relax at times of stress and stimulate your parasympathetic nervous system - which is like a brake to anxiety and stress.

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Tension Release Muscle Exercise - Stress Relief

This ‘Leaves on a Stream’ Exercise may help you to visualise and to associate negative and intrusive thoughts with the perspective of ‘leaves (floating) on a stream’. The aim is to symbolically visualise intrusive and negative thoughts as things that can come and go and that they are simply a passing and transient phase which does not mean that the thoughts represent us, or that they have to be engaged with. Also,, this exercise helps the listener to be able to be ‘mindful’ of thoughts, whilst also being able to step away from engaging with them and visualising them as leaves that simply float along and pass along and away.

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Leaves On A Stream - A Mindfulness Exercise

This audio includes an exercise called 'Stein's Clenched Fist' and can be used when someone is anxious, feeling panicky, or when experiencing a high stress event. 

This audio uses physical hand and fist clenching and associating them with positive and negative thoughts and feelings. This allows you to induce positive feelings to heighten a feeling of calm and 'being in control' by clenching your right fist and letting go of negative thoughts and feelings by clenching and releasing your left fist.

The more you practice this, the greater the window where you can emotionally regulate yourself when you are feeling anxious, panicky or highly stressed.

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Using Physical Techniques to Overcome Panic Attacks, Anxiety or High Stress Events

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