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Learning how to calm ourselves

We all feel very strong emotions at times. We might feel excited, nervous or even angry about something.

When we were in the middle of a powerful emotion, we might feel a bit out of control and realise that it would be helpful to calm down.

Learning how to calm ourselves is a really helpful skill.

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Video - Advice on staying calm

Wellbeing professional, Lorna Walker, shows us a tool we can use to bring more calm into our day.

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Activity - Calming ourselves

Try Lorna's practical wellbeing activity to help you feel more calm when you're experiencing a strong emotion.

Image gallerySkip image gallerySlide 1 of 3, , Name how you're feeling.

Step one

Name how you're feeling. You can do this in your mind or you can say it out loud.

  • I'm feeling really nervous.
  • I'm feeling really angry.
  • I'm feeling really scared.

Step two

Find out where this emotion lives right now in the body.

  • I feel the nervousness in my jaw muscles and shoulders.
  • I feel the anger boiling in my chest.
  • I feel the fear making my heart beat fast.

Step three

Now that you've named the emotion and found out where it lives, you're going to give it space.

You can imagine when you breathe the air from outside, you're breathing space into your body. When we breathe out, you're breathing back out into the space that you're in.

There's no rush and there is no need to try hard to get rid of or change how you feel either.

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