Super Variety Fun-size Bag of Tricks for Being Okay
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Let your eyes half-close, focusing on something a little in front of you. Begin to count your breaths. Count “one” on the in-breath and “two” on the out-breath. Get all the way up to ten and then start over. If you start to get tangled up in a thought, notice you’re doing that and remind yourself that you don’t need to think about it right now. One of my favorite images is of a pond in a forest. Animals show up to drink from the pond, causing little ripples across the surface. There are deer, raccoons, and small birds. You see them arrive and you let them drink, but you don’t follow them when they continue on to wherever they’re going. You stay there with the pond, mostly still but simmering with life.
Super Variety Fun-size Bag of Tricks for Being Okay
Super Variety Fun-size Bag of Tricks for…
Super Variety Fun-size Bag of Tricks for Being Okay
Let your eyes half-close, focusing on something a little in front of you. Begin to count your breaths. Count “one” on the in-breath and “two” on the out-breath. Get all the way up to ten and then start over. If you start to get tangled up in a thought, notice you’re doing that and remind yourself that you don’t need to think about it right now. One of my favorite images is of a pond in a forest. Animals show up to drink from the pond, causing little ripples across the surface. There are deer, raccoons, and small birds. You see them arrive and you let them drink, but you don’t follow them when they continue on to wherever they’re going. You stay there with the pond, mostly still but simmering with life.