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Low mood and hard feelings

Feelings are information before they are problems. The practices here are about naming what you feel accurately, sitting with what will not move yet, and acting on what matters to you even on the days nothing feels like anything.

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2 practices

Mindfulness Five minutes Under stress Clear all

Theme

Tolerate distress 1 Calm the body 1

How long you have · Five minutes

A minute 9 Five minutes 2

Approach · Mindfulness

DBT skills 3 Body based 3 Emotionally focused 2 Mindfulness 2 Core 2 CBT 2 Medical and treatment 1 Parts work 1 Trauma informed 1 Grief 1

Scan your body, unclench the jaw, drop the shoulders, soften the hands. Let the tension out on each breath.

Emotion tightens the body; the body can loosen the emotion back. Release the grip one part at a time.

Five minutesCalm the bodyMindfulnessQur’an 89:27

Soothe yourself through the senses: a warm drink, a soft cloth, a good scent, a slow walk. Be kind to the body.

When you cannot fix the feeling, comfort the one who is feeling it. Small kindnesses to the body settle the mind.

Five minutesTolerate distressMindfulnessQur’an 93:6