Relaxation activities

Focusing on your breathing is relaxing. By doing a breathing exercise you could reduce tension.

This exercise will take:  less than 5 minutes.

Caution:  if you experience difficulty breathing, this exercise might not be the best option for you.

This is how you do it:

• When sitting down, sit up straight in your chair with your back against the back of your chair.
• When standing, stand up straight.
• Put both of your feet flat on the surface.
• Focus on your breathing.
• Keep breathing like you are used to.
• Try to feel how you breathe. Put your hand on your stomach to feel how you inhale and exhale.
• Exhale from your mouth and pull in your stomach as much as possible.
• Follow your breathing in this manner a couple of breaths and then stop the exercise.