Relaxation activities

You can relax by imagining you are in a place or surrounded by people and things you like.

This exercise will take: 5 minutes.

Before completing this exercise, take a look at the helpful guidelines below.

• Only imagine places, people and things you like.
• Imagine what you can hear, feel, smell, and/or taste if you were in that place.
• Try to think of very specific details of the place, thing or person. For example, how does the surface of the thing feel and how does it smell?

Now try to relax while imagining that you are in a place or with the people or things that you like.

This is how you do it:

• Sit or lie down comfortably in a quiet place.
• Breathe slowly.
• With every breath, take at least three seconds to breathe in and at least six seconds to breathe out.
• Focus on your breathing and your lower stomach when you breathe until you feel peaceful inside.
• Imagine you are in a place or surrounded by things or people you like.
• Now do this exercise again but close your eyes.