This is a strategy called put it in a bubble. The reason you put your hand on your belly is because the breath needs to come from the belly to be calming. Hand on the belly.Īs you inhale, you're blowing up a balloon. Floating the shoulders down makes all the difference. We know that as we get stressed, as we're tense, shoulders rise. I like to sometimes imagine I have gentle hands saying, "Laura, remember to float down on your shoulders." Or you can actually physically gently put your hands on your shoulders. Open heart, open chest.įloating down the shoulders is the F in SOFT. Imagine them lifting, opening toward the sky.Ĭome back up.
Your heart and your chest begin to lift slightly. So sensing your shoulders, moving back toward the chair – they may not touch it. We're going to bring our tongue down from the roof of our mouth to the bottom of our mouth. We tend to clench our teeth when we're stressed. Softening, melting, coming around the area around the eye, the bony area under the eye. Your forehead softening, melting that furrow around your brow. So beginning at your hairline, I want you to actually imagine – picture – your little hair follicles just beginning to soften. The S in SOFT stands for soften your face.
So I'm going to begin with the S in SOFT, and we'll work through the rest of the acronym. Hands can just be gently laying on the thighs, palms facing upwards, relaxed. It's very important to the breath to have your spine back against your chair, and your feet flat on the floor. So we're going to begin by just talking about how we're sitting because this is something we do want to address. It only takes two minutes – maybe less – and it really makes a difference in terms of calming effect, calming the nervous system, slowing down the breath. This is a strategy that you can use when you're tense, when you're feeling overwhelmed, when you just need to take a time out. Laura Brooke: I'm Laura Brooke with the National Center on Early Childhood Health and Wellness, and today I'm going to share a strategy with you called SOFT.
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