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This page contains some content, links, and practices that may be beneficial to you! 

Resources for you

Anxiety

panic attacks, feeling overwhelmed, panicked, pounding heart 

EFT (emotional freedom techniques) tapping

- tapping your fingertips on specific meridian points (where energy circulates through your body) to restore the balance of the body's energy.

How

  • identify the issue/fear

  • feel the intensity of this issue/fear (establishes a benchmark for you to monitor your progress)

  • setup an affirmation, should be aimed towards acknowledging the issue and accepting yourself despite the problem

  • EFT sequencing - tap your fingertips on any meridian point you are drawn to and focus on your breath and accepting/resolving the negative emotion.

  • test the final intensity - compare with how the intensity was before - if you still don't feel comfortable, repeat the sequence until you do.

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Intrusive Thoughts 

Stop, Drop, and Redirect

This is a practice of mental redirection. This is to be used when you are not able to safely and comfortably process emotional/mental distress in a public setting. The goal is to redirect/refocus your behavior, attention, or thought processes from maladaptive thoughts and behaviors to more adaptive ones. 

How

  • Recognize your intrusive thought and how it feels - if able, make note of what this thought is, what (outside or internal) source brought it to the surface (why it was uncovered).

  • If it does not feel good, IMMEDIATELY visualize a stop sign. 

  • Once you see the stop sign, IMMEDIATELY redirect your mind on something in front of you - a task, an object, a space, a smell, a sound- anything to bring you back to the present and grounded in reality. 

  • As you go through these motions focus on your breath and LET GO (literally ungrasp your hold) on the intrusive thought/behavior. Once you are in a safe space (later), then you can revisit it and thoroughly process it. 

This is practice is easier said than done- it will get easier with practice.

(anxious feeling/trigger) at work or in public

Resources

Anxiety:  https://www.tappingsolutionfoundation.org

                 https://www.healthline.com/health/eft-tapping

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Intrusive Thoughts:   Swaine, Z. (2011). Redirection. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_2132

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