Just Breathe - Suggestions to Lessen Acute Stress

Hi All, This is part two of the suggestions to lessen stress. This entry deals with ideas to lessen acute stress. These ideas and others are discussed more in the workshops I am teaching this summer. See the April 25th entry to learn more about the workshops.

Enjoy. JUST BREATHE.

Suggestions to Lessen Acute Stress

(These are ideas to help when you are in the middle of a very stressful situation. They can be done at other times of the day, too, as part of an inwardly focused practice.)

1. Breathe with intention. Take three deep breathes.
a. Set your intention to breathe in Life, Light, Joy, Happiness, whatever good vibration works for you. (You can do this at the beginning of the day…”Every time I breathe in today, I will breathe in Perfect Health”, etc.)
b. Set the intention to breathe out negativity, stress, manic thoughts, etc. every time you breathe out.

2. Ask your inner self / higher self (or if you have a favorite guide, angel or master you work with) to help you let go of the emotional and mental reasons and causes that you are feeling stress. Your inner self (the space you go to when you are quiet) knows how to do this. These reasons and causes may be fear, anger, resentment, hatred, anxiety, lack of abundance, jealousy, envy, etc. It is time to let these negative vibrations go.

3. Start breathing in the good vibration that is the counter to the reason of the stress. For example: If you have fear, breathe in love. If you have jealousy, breathe in self love (you can’t be jealous of someone else if you truly love yourself in a healthy way.) If you have anxiety, breathe in ease and flow of energy or movement. The sky is the limit!! If you can’t think of anything, breathe in light to counteract the darkness of stress.

4. Repeat as necessary!

5. Consider the longer term suggestions to lessen chronic stress and improve your health so that acute stress happens less and less often.