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Writing Exercises for Stress
Decrease in chronic stress. While it's normal, and potentially positive, for the body to experience stress, chronic stress results in the long term presence of stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline, which have a negative impact on cardiovascular functions, affects immune response, IBS, headaches, mood, and many other aspects of wellbeing.
Gratitude Journaling
Gratitude can have a lasting positive effect on your wellbeing through activating prosocial circuits in the brain. Gratitude provides resilience to trauma, improve cardiovascular function, asthma, reduce inflammation, improve sleep quality, and many other benefits.
Best Possible Self
The Best Possible Self is an exercise that has us imagine our future self in a vivid sensory way, as if everything had gone as well as it possibly could. The exercise has been shown to improve mood, depression, stress and immune system function, and goal achievement. It works by fostering positive emotions, generating salient and specific goals, and activating the brain through mental imagery.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy
EMDR therapy is a clinical process that helps people with trauma replace negative neural patterns. EMDR therapy does this through alternating visual or auditory stimulation, known as BLS (bilateral stimulation).
Breathing Exercises for Wellbeing
Breathing exercises for relaxation can have a huge impact on our ability to regulate our nervous system. Relaxation focused breathing exercises have been shown to reduce stress, anxiety, depression, improve mood, sleep quality, and cognitive function. They are safe, easy to do, and take just a few minutes each day.