Here's a quick summary of techniques: 1) Meditative breathing (long slow outbreathes) 2) Mindfulness (covered in separate video) 3) Laughter (watch stupid CZcams videos) 4) Listen to your biorythms (eat when hungry, sleep when sleepy) 5) Monotasking (do one thing at a time, do it slowly) 6) Social connection (close friendships) 7) Take care of body (stretching, massage) 8) Standing on your head (heart works differently which triggers vagal nerve response) None of these techniques will solve your problems. The purpose behind these techniques is to calm you down so you can solve your problems easier. You're Welcome!
But sometimes the task should be embracing the anxiety while breathing calmly. It takes power out of it. Just be with it and listen to it and question it. Sometimes it's based on a real issue or it may be based on a distorted way of thinking about some matter.
7 years of pursuit for solutions to mental health given in less than 4 minutes. This includes everything I ever found out in allopathy, Yoga or meditation and much more. Thank you
I've been almost binge-watching your videos. Learning about the parasympathetic response and these techniques has helped to make my panic attacks way less severe and frequent; not a substitute for actual therapy sessions, but sooo helpful. Thank you so much for doing these videos! x
I have attempted to meditate many times in my life and prior to this CD the only success I've experienced is with live guided meditation. czcams.com/users/postUgkxzpa8CIfZcihW4Z0F_ja0QF3W9KIatrsq This is the first CD I've used that cuts through my unmedicated ADHD and enables me to truly relax and experience a quiet and energizing interval. The instructors voice is very soothing and pleasant to listen to. I am easily able to sit successfully through the entire CD, and for quite some time after. I cannot adequately express how tremendously helpful this CD has been on my spiritual journey!! Two thumbs up and 10 stars!
I really appreciate your comments at the very end. I think it's the advice that's crucial, that's often missing from cheery vapid pop psychology social media insta happy posts. It's sooo important that people understand that soothing, doesn't equate to solving. Solving takes focus, and sometimes surrendering the fact that we don't have control. Or are yet to find a workable solution. It takes away guilt and shame, which also then helps calm us. Thanks for being so down to earth Emma, this is really useful and healthy information to help people stay in balance.
I am adding "your calm amazing voice and tone" to this list of awesome techniques! When I start watching your videos, I can feel I start to calm down a bit and also get a positive excitement for what I'm about to learn from you and get blown away! ❤
I like to count 4 as breathing in, hold for 4, release to count of 4. Helps stop anxiety from escalating. Very good information you are sharing, thankyou.
Thanks for this, much appreciated. The best video on youtube on this subject, many of the medical professionals (that you visit and pay for) will not give you this good advice in this good manner. The internet can be a powerful game-changer if we filter out the right information like these and let more people benefit from them. Thanks!
The last part is very important. I know people who do all or some of these techniques and fail miserably when they got triggered with some emotions! Thanks
I find that when I am anxious or stressed I turn to something beautiful, either watching (gardening shows or Jane Austen flicks), smelling (buying myself flowers), or creating (sewing, embroidering, painting). Internally, I can't stop the feeling that I need to do it, and I feel guilty because it feels like I am being distracted from sitting with the emotions and solving them. Afterwards, I think, why did I do that, I'm right back to anxious.
Wow never did i know, why i felt so relaxed after stretching, or while doing a hand stand when i felt so badly stuck. From now on, calm and refocus on the thing at hand.
Monotask = ZEN MASTER . Some of my favorite things to do are painting , especially watercolor it’s so relaxing , slicing very thinly cucumbers , arranging and rearranging all my crystals, brushing my teeth, gardening, making jewelry, & preening my cats lol.
Your contributions are much more significant and beneficial than reflected in the number of views you got. Thank you for this important and wonderful video.
Excellent sum up at the end - the purpose of these techniques is to help calm our nervous system so we can solve our problems. We're not trying to change how we feel about those problems or escape from them. Very important point! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for that. I had been threatened as a child that if I didn't shut up about the multiple attacks I'd been through that my mother would have these known and unknown attackers take me away again. So any hint of abandoning my feelings brings up a righteous rage in me. There is so much I yet have to learn. And with a healthy dose of self compassion and acceptance, I'll find my peace at last...
Thank you for the great quick tips to calming. Even better was your advice to figure out the root cause as that is the only way to truly fix constant anxiety. I think that is key to my long term success. Thank you so much for caring and making these videos.
I like to unload the dishwasher and put all the dishes and silverware away making as little noise as possible. Then I reload of there are any dishes in the sink, using the same method. This really helps me focus on the moment.
3:10 The sole reason why i thought that meditate did squat for me. Id meditate and the problem would still be their, the pain would be dulled but the actual thing that needs to be solved is still there. Thank you for this.
Within ten minutes of watching this I tried it in real time…something someone said to me sent me in to about to cry mode…I leapt on your advice and not a tear drop! Thank you.
Thank you you're a wonderful educator it seems a bit silly however that we as human beings have to be reminded to breathe I wish you peace keep up the good work
I grew up in a stressful scary environment. Our basement stairs had openings between the stairs. I would hook my legs on the underside if the stairs and hang upside down all the time. Now I know it helped me cope. Very interesting.
The disclaimer she said at the end is very very important... You can just use these techniques to make you calm .. don't use them as a distraction or to change emotional response....
Fantastic illustration.. According to the Emma , one can generate hormones of your choice by triggering Parasympathetic Nervous system though conventional activities, a self-medication mechanism... Great ..
The last point she made was the most important. A lot of people use such techniques as a ‘spiritual/ bliss bypass’ and think they are ‘dealing with’ their emotions. There are whole industries built around this fallacy, it’s a real problem.
Thank you! Very helpful! Looking forward to seeing some more of your videos. So glad I don’t really have to stand on my head but can raise my legs above my head level!
Genuine Self Love ( Metta or loving yourself / your mind and body for a start ) is the solution but very few can truly guide to open the door of your heart. Videos of Eckhart Tolle or Thich Nah Hart may help
This is video number two for me. I was crying on the first one. I'm just gonna keep going through these. Just learning the information alone has me very emotional. Thank you for this.
I absolutely love all your videos, thank you! and this is for who might be reading.....as a person who broke her 2nd cervical for doing a bad practice of yoga for years while inverted positions. I learned.....NOPE WERE NOT MADE TO PUT PRESSURE on our heads. So try a handstand instead BUT NEVER THE HEAD.
3.25 Or, not to help is solve our (self created, mind based ) problems, but rather to realize that there is, was or ever will be such a thing as a "problem", and we have none of it. It is just a mental game we are playing with ourselves, when we are still identified as the person/ego, thinking we are our thoughts, feelings, emotions, sense perception, memory and so on. Great tips, and thanks once again.
Or, instead of doing "something slow every day". Go about life for real, and begin to live life fully NOW, and do EVERYTHING slowly, until it is integrated and you could do it naturally without any effort or mental chatter about it. Living meditation, with deep breathing, is the key to experiencing life itself, which is what you/we essentially are. Thank u.
Thank you for posting these videos, I have just subscribed🙏 I’m new and can already see this channel is going to work wonders to improve my mental wellbeing ...thank you ❤️❤️❤️
After a lifetime of familial anxiety, plus traumatic events feeding its reinforcement, I went forward beginning low dose SSRI daily...which did help me greatly. But in communicating with others in the SSRI support group I realized my anxiety had been mild to most everyone else's. Apparently, I had developed coping techniques which held the anxiety to non-dangerous levels.
Your videos are amazing and so practical. What I like is you have such a way of coming over with a hidden wealth of experience knowledge and qualification which is clearly the case ... sorry not meaning to patronise.... just trying to frame something positive... I know, bless you, may you be healthy, may you be happy, fulfilled and content in your life and work..may you receive many fold blessings in return for your wonderful work. xx
From what I've been learning it seems that the issue with anxiety and trauma response is that it tricks you into thinking the event that happened or the risk of it happening again is the real threat. In reality its just an over sensitized nervous system. The real issue isn't the risk of that thing happening again, it's about your "response" to this "alarm system" both in the present (and if it happens again)...?
I like to do deep breathing while doing Tai Chi with my wakizashi (Japanese short sword), petting my cat, walks in the woods, building models, playing guitar, and shooting guns. These are all very focused tasks which bring me peace and joy and skill while practicing.
Is there a video addressing the awful feeling of going into a work or even school environment each day, especially the first day of the week or the anxiety on Sunday evening (or whatever day it is). Not necessarily an awful work environment, just something about the first plunge in each week.
Oh yes, the feeling of the impending doom. On Sunday night I distract myself with funny movie or a hobby and tell my self that Monday will be over before I know.
Fabulous ideas to try
Thanks
@@TherapyinaNutshell hey where is the link to the dumb cat videos?
I agree 100% . She has a gift to compliment her vocation. Love this channel!
@@iboremytherapist My thoughts exactly... ;)
@@iboremytherapist yes. Where?
You'll never know how many people in trauma right now you are helping ... myself included ... Thank you so much.
Agreeed!!!!
Here's a quick summary of techniques:
1) Meditative breathing (long slow outbreathes)
2) Mindfulness (covered in separate video)
3) Laughter (watch stupid CZcams videos)
4) Listen to your biorythms (eat when hungry, sleep when sleepy)
5) Monotasking (do one thing at a time, do it slowly)
6) Social connection (close friendships)
7) Take care of body (stretching, massage)
8) Standing on your head (heart works differently which triggers vagal nerve response)
None of these techniques will solve your problems. The purpose behind these techniques is to calm you down so you can solve your problems easier.
You're Welcome!
Aren LaRiO thank you so much 😊
Aren LaRiO this is wonderful thank you so much
Thank you
Ah thank you, I was hoping to see something like this
Aren LaRiO thank you 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 🙏🏼
Your voice and articulation is very calming...
Thanks for your comment, I always feel a little insecure about myself on camera, so it's nice to hear that it works for you!
@@TherapyinaNutshell no, you're amazing!! Keep shining, you have a gift.
Very palming
I agree , your voice is calming
Thank You so much your Voice just put me to sleep 😴 Do you Meditation and Calming voice.
An alternative to standing on your head is lifting your legs above heart level. This lowers blood pressure too
Yes, legs up the wall pose is helpful. So is down dog.
This woman's voice genuinely makes me feel calm; good skills there!
People should realise focusing on doing one thing is so crucial in reducing anxiety. Paying attention to the task at hand is really calming
That's mindfulness
Monotask
Yeah like a zen monk tending a bonsai tree :)
So true.
But sometimes the task should be embracing the anxiety while breathing calmly. It takes power out of it. Just be with it and listen to it and question it. Sometimes it's based on a real issue or it may be based on a distorted way of thinking about some matter.
Just listening your voice 10 min a day will strengthen my parasympathetic system☺☺☺
This is a GREAT comment.
Her voice is so soothing.
True 😄
For real lol
7 years of pursuit for solutions to mental health given in less than 4 minutes. This includes everything I ever found out in allopathy, Yoga or meditation and much more. Thank you
I can't believe you mentioned standing on your head. I have been wondering why handstands help my anxiety for the last several weeks!
I've been almost binge-watching your videos. Learning about the parasympathetic response and these techniques has helped to make my panic attacks way less severe and frequent; not a substitute for actual therapy sessions, but sooo helpful. Thank you so much for doing these videos! x
I have attempted to meditate many times in my life and prior to this CD the only success I've experienced is with live guided meditation. czcams.com/users/postUgkxzpa8CIfZcihW4Z0F_ja0QF3W9KIatrsq This is the first CD I've used that cuts through my unmedicated ADHD and enables me to truly relax and experience a quiet and energizing interval. The instructors voice is very soothing and pleasant to listen to. I am easily able to sit successfully through the entire CD, and for quite some time after. I cannot adequately express how tremendously helpful this CD has been on my spiritual journey!! Two thumbs up and 10 stars!
Watching you alone makes me calm! Thanks for your videos !
I really appreciate your comments at the very end. I think it's the advice that's crucial, that's often missing from cheery vapid pop psychology social media insta happy posts. It's sooo important that people understand that soothing, doesn't equate to solving. Solving takes focus, and sometimes surrendering the fact that we don't have control. Or are yet to find a workable solution. It takes away guilt and shame, which also then helps calm us. Thanks for being so down to earth Emma, this is really useful and healthy information to help people stay in balance.
Thank you for being so generous. Thank you for adding to the healing of those you touch.
I am adding "your calm amazing voice and tone" to this list of awesome techniques! When I start watching your videos, I can feel I start to calm down a bit and also get a positive excitement for what I'm about to learn from you and get blown away! ❤
This lady has a very calming voice. My parasympathetic system kicked in just listening to her voice.
You talk so calm and when I watch my stress go away.
I like to count 4 as breathing in, hold for 4, release to count of 4. Helps stop anxiety from escalating. Very good information you are sharing, thankyou.
yes, this is called square breathing- I made a video on it :) glad that technique works for you!
releasing at 8.
Thanks for this, much appreciated. The best video on youtube on this subject, many of the medical professionals (that you visit and pay for) will not give you this good advice in this good manner. The internet can be a powerful game-changer if we filter out the right information like these and let more people benefit from them. Thanks!
The last part is very important. I know people who do all or some of these techniques and fail miserably when they got triggered with some emotions! Thanks
I find that when I am anxious or stressed I turn to something beautiful, either watching (gardening shows or Jane Austen flicks), smelling (buying myself flowers), or creating (sewing, embroidering, painting). Internally, I can't stop the feeling that I need to do it, and I feel guilty because it feels like I am being distracted from sitting with the emotions and solving them. Afterwards, I think, why did I do that, I'm right back to anxious.
It's amazing that you mentioned about problems.
Stress Support Capsules have made a huge difference in my stress management. I highly recommend them.
Wow never did i know, why i felt so relaxed after stretching, or while doing a hand stand when i felt so badly stuck. From now on, calm and refocus on the thing at hand.
Monotask = ZEN MASTER . Some of my favorite things to do are painting , especially watercolor it’s so relaxing , slicing very thinly cucumbers , arranging and rearranging all my crystals, brushing my teeth, gardening, making jewelry, & preening my cats lol.
This is super. Thank you. Yes, the long slow outbreath has always been super helpful for me!
Your contributions are much more significant and beneficial than reflected in the number of views you got. Thank you for this important and wonderful video.
Seriously your channel is a gem. Thanks so much for my making all that information available for free
Excellent sum up at the end - the purpose of these techniques is to help calm our nervous system so we can solve our problems. We're not trying to change how we feel about those problems or escape from them. Very important point! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for that. I had been threatened as a child that if I didn't shut up about the multiple attacks I'd been through that my mother would have these known and unknown attackers take me away again. So any hint of abandoning my feelings brings up a righteous rage in me. There is so much I yet have to learn. And with a healthy dose of self compassion and acceptance, I'll find my peace at last...
Thank you so much for all these videos! I believe that many people need your help nowadays more than ever!
Thank you for the great quick tips to calming. Even better was your advice to figure out the root cause as that is the only way to truly fix constant anxiety. I think that is key to my long term success. Thank you so much for caring and making these videos.
I like to unload the dishwasher and put all the dishes and silverware away making as little noise as possible. Then I reload of there are any dishes in the sink, using the same method. This really helps me focus on the moment.
That little smile that breaks through, beautiful
I could focus on the way her tongue curls over every time she says the word calm or calming...its mesmerising...
Lol....I can't unsee it now. It's cute though.
Great observation!
3:10 The sole reason why i thought that meditate did squat for me.
Id meditate and the problem would still be their, the pain would be dulled but the actual thing that needs to be solved is still there.
Thank you for this.
Try Body Scan Meditation 30 to 45 minutes before you want to go to sleep
Every night
Good Luck
Within ten minutes of watching this I tried it in real time…something someone said to me sent me in to about to cry mode…I leapt on your advice and not a tear drop! Thank you.
Thank you you're a wonderful educator it seems a bit silly however that we as human beings have to be reminded to breathe I wish you peace keep up the good work
An exceptional and truly helpful woman . ..
I grew up in a stressful scary environment. Our basement stairs had openings between the stairs. I would hook my legs on the underside if the stairs and hang upside down all the time. Now I know it helped me cope. Very interesting.
Keep sharing your gifts 🎁! So happy you’re in the world and helping us all
The disclaimer she said at the end is very very important... You can just use these techniques to make you calm .. don't use them as a distraction or to change emotional response....
Fantastic illustration.. According to the Emma , one can generate hormones of your choice by triggering Parasympathetic Nervous system though conventional activities, a self-medication mechanism... Great ..
The last point she made was the most important. A lot of people use such techniques as a ‘spiritual/ bliss bypass’ and think they are ‘dealing with’ their emotions. There are whole industries built around this fallacy, it’s a real problem.
Well, this seems as good a place to start as any, so here we go. Cheers!
Thank you! Very helpful! Looking forward to seeing some more of your videos. So glad I don’t really have to stand on my head but can raise my legs above my head level!
Inhaling and exhaling through mouth slow, is really calming and invigorating
This was fantastic! But I gotta say your voice was very calming!
What a wonderful short video on how to calm down. The last part (this will not solve your problems) is the painfull truth... Thx for the vid
Your videos are underated amazing stuff
Techniques that are worth exploring and experimenting
I love it when you say vagal tone ❤
It's so easy to say sleep when you need to. I have had insomnia from early childhood due to abuse. Sleep is like gold and just as hard to find.
Me to, 60 years worth of insomnia.
Genuine Self Love ( Metta or loving yourself / your mind and body for a start ) is the solution but very few can truly guide to open the door of your heart. Videos of Eckhart Tolle or Thich Nah Hart may help
Ever try binural beats? Delta & theta range is best for relaxation & deep sleep.
@@stephanguitar9778 God bless xxx
@@gwendolynsinclair I've tried all the white noise videos, falling rain, blowing wind, the sea.
This is video number two for me. I was crying on the first one. I'm just gonna keep going through these. Just learning the information alone has me very emotional. Thank you for this.
I absolutely love all your videos, thank you! and this is for who might be reading.....as a person who broke her 2nd cervical for doing a bad practice of yoga for years while inverted positions. I learned.....NOPE WERE NOT MADE TO PUT PRESSURE on our heads. So try a handstand instead BUT NEVER THE HEAD.
Beautiful sincere advise. Thank you for caring enough to share. Just subscribed. What the world needs now is therapy in a nutshell. And Jesus😊💞
I am baffled that anyone would give this helpful video a thumbs down
3.25 Or, not to help is solve our (self created, mind based ) problems, but rather to realize that there is, was or ever will be such a thing as a "problem", and we have none of it. It is just a mental game we are playing with ourselves, when we are still identified as the person/ego, thinking we are our thoughts, feelings, emotions, sense perception, memory and so on.
Great tips, and thanks once again.
@@janetownley Word salad for the limited intellect yes. There is no other way.
Excellently nutshelled.
Happiness depends upon ourselves 💛 Take charge of your own happiness 🙏
I have tried many of them. All of them work.
Especially self care. I have a bath and massage my body while I am it. It works so well.
I agree too .Your voice is calming .Thank you for your teachings.
Or, instead of doing "something slow every day". Go about life for real, and begin to live life fully NOW, and do EVERYTHING slowly, until it is integrated and you could do it naturally without any effort or mental chatter about it.
Living meditation, with deep breathing, is the key to experiencing life itself, which is what you/we essentially are.
Thank u.
Sleeping? For me falling asleep while listening to ASMR is the best
ASMR???
Watched this a couple times, good sound advice with some very practical exercises to help calm things down!!
Laughter yoga is a fun and easy way to laugh - Celeste Green has many CZcams exercises.
I dearly appreciate this presentation! Thank you!!!!! 🙏🌈😊
Thank you for posting these videos, I have just subscribed🙏 I’m new and can already see this channel is going to work wonders to improve my mental wellbeing ...thank you ❤️❤️❤️
I loved this video, thank you so much, really really helpful ❤
She is so wise
Your reach is awesome, helping so many.
Thank you.
Thank you
After a lifetime of familial anxiety, plus traumatic events feeding its reinforcement, I went forward beginning low dose SSRI daily...which did help me greatly. But in communicating with others in the SSRI support group I realized my anxiety had been mild to most everyone else's. Apparently, I had developed coping techniques which held the anxiety to non-dangerous levels.
Are you using ssri still??
@@sharikkhan4945 ...no. Lexapro was causing too much fatigue, so I stopped it.
@@edzanjero353 inderall has great effect when i use.. is there any technique to cope with it non medically??
Your videos are amazing and so practical. What I like is you have such a way of coming over with a hidden wealth of experience knowledge and qualification which is clearly the case ... sorry not meaning to patronise.... just trying to frame something positive... I know, bless you, may you be healthy, may you be happy, fulfilled and content in your life and work..may you receive many fold blessings in return for your wonderful work. xx
i wrote all of it down in my notebook 🥺 thank you
Thank you. Your voice calms my nerves… ❤️
Thank you so much. Easy too do
This is great - thank you for all you share 🙏🌸
Your voice is so soothing I'm already calm and I feel safe :))
20 minute yoga video almost had me in tears a week ago. Lol also after doing a handstand practice.
Thank you! You said that in the description there’d be links to your favorite cat videos but I cant find them...
Your videos are so helpful. Thank you! 🌹
Thanks!
Very helpful! Thanks 👍
Great video, all the salient points and very well presented.
You are God sent ❤
You're voice is so relaxing
These are golden tips.. thank you..
Dear sweet heart thanks a lot for your video, it's give me good guidance
Ive been sleeping much better with these techniques. Thank you
From what I've been learning it seems that the issue with anxiety and trauma response is that it tricks you into thinking the event that happened or the risk of it happening again is the real threat.
In reality its just an over sensitized nervous system.
The real issue isn't the risk of that thing happening again, it's about your "response" to this "alarm system" both in the present (and if it happens again)...?
Drawing mandalas is a sure-fire cure for anxiety. If you can't draw buy a mandala coloring book off Amazon. I'm telling you it Works!!!.
I like to do deep breathing while doing Tai Chi with my wakizashi (Japanese short sword), petting my cat, walks in the woods, building models, playing guitar, and shooting guns. These are all very focused tasks which bring me peace and joy and skill while practicing.
Thank you so much for this video!! ❤
Practice gratitude.
You can certainly get it.
thank you for your practical and really helpful advice. Its really great thank you xxx
Fantastic suggestions...I am late to the video but this is helpful 🙏 ✌️ ❤️
Thank you Emma these are helpful tips to stimulate the parasympathetic video ❤️
Your videos are excellent , your voice soothes the mind... keep up the great work!
Is there a video addressing the awful feeling of going into a work or even school environment each day, especially
the first day of the week or the anxiety on Sunday evening (or whatever day it is). Not necessarily an awful work environment, just something about the first plunge in each week.
Oh yes, the feeling of the impending doom. On Sunday night I distract myself with funny movie or a hobby and tell my self that Monday will be over before I know.
Search for ‘headspace Sunday scaries’ - they have a few meditations
Thank you, I will try all ☀️