It cannot be overestimated how intimately linked is the body with the mind.

And so often we can do more by helping the body than we can by thinking about things.

In this module, you'll find a set of exercises that can help you manage and prevent stress by helping the body.

You will find a body scan, a breathing exercise, a muscle tension release exercise, as well as discussions of how you can help your body through the right nourishment, sleep, screen use, and more.

Use this module to help your  body, and return to it as often as you would like. We hope it will help you take good care of your body.

We wish you an inspired,
calm and conscious state of mind.

Learning the language of the body, understanding its particular way of communicating requires that we become conscious of the body.

It requires that we are willing to listen and take into account.

Listening to our bodies is pivotal to the prevention of stress, because stress always expresses itself through the body, in our breathing, in the tightness of our muscles, in the way our hearts beat and the way our stomachs function.

So today, we explore the idea of listening to the body.

We wish you an inspired,
calm and conscious state of mind.

Putting our attention to one body part of the time this exercise will help you come into deeper contact with your body and help it relax.

Now, when we take the time, to sit or lie down and listen to our bodies, our bodies will want to become very honest with us.

That means you might experience your stress more acutely, as you do this exercise. That you might feel tightness more intensely.

No matter what you feel and experience, have faith that listening to your body and becoming conscious about it, is healthy and useful.
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We wish you an inspired,
calm and conscious state of mind.

In this exercise, we will actively relax different muscles groups and help the body remember how it feels to relax.

When stressed, our muscles often become tight often without us noticing anything.

Doing this exercise will help your body create a new normal for muscle tension in your body.  

Helping you become more conscious of unhealthy stress reactions, as well as supporting you in letting go, when you are experiencing stressful situations.

We wish you an inspired,
calm and conscious state of mind.

Breathing exercises are some of the most powerful exercises for alleviating, managing, and preventing stress.

This breathing exercise helps you calm down. It helps you activate the parasympathetic nervous system, reoxygenate your blood, find energy and clarity of mind. It reduces anxiety and helps you let go.

This session includes and introduction with a more thorough description of how to breath properly.

We wish you an inspired,
calm and conscious state of mind.

Breathing exercises are some of the most powerful exercises for alleviating, managing, and preventing stress.

This breathing exercise helps you calm down. It helps you activate the parasympathetic nervous system, reoxygenate your blood, find energy and clarity of mind. It reduces anxiety and helps you let go.

We wish you an inspired,
calm and conscious state of mind.

Stress affects the way we eat and not in a good way. Eating unhealthy things can help us manage our inner states in a very powerful way.

At the same time, unhealthy eating is unsupportive of the body and unsustainable in the long run.

So today we will spend a moment, becoming more conscious about the way, stress affects what we eat and vice versa.

How can we use nutrition to support stress management?

And what can we do to substitute the tool of unhealthy eating, with something more sustainable?

We wish you an inspired,
calm and conscious state of mind.

Water is important for our physical and psychological health. It is important for our digestion, it flushes bodily waste, it significantly affects our energy levels, and our brain function.

So today we consider our habits of drinking water. Our goal is to make conscious choices about when and how we drink water.

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calm and conscious state of mind.

Screens are extremely useful. Through screens, we can create, be entertained, communicate and much more.

However, much of what we find on screen are designed to stimulate us, lure us in, make us hooked and addicted.

Too much screen time can affect stress reactions and too often we take ineffective artificial breaks with screens.

So today we explore our use of screens and consider if we need to make any changes.  
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We wish you an inspired,
calm and conscious state of mind.

Stress does strange things to our sleep. Bad quality of sleep and too little sleep can make stress management difficult.

At the same time, stress is a main cause of sleep problems.

So today we work with becoming conscious about our state of mind and body, in the last moments of the day.

We consider how we can support ourselves in calming down, and help our bodies embrace a good night's sleep.  

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calm and conscious state of mind.

Transporting ourselves somewhere can imply a wide range of experiences.
Spanning from stressful anxiety and anger to a peaceful calm, meditative state of mind.

So today we consider our experiences with being in transit.

We consider how we might spend this time
to support ourselves and to manage stress.

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calm and conscious state of mind.

Today we'll learn about how horizontal eye movements can help us manage stress.

Moving our eyes horizontally from side to side helps the body and the nervous system, to come into a state of calm attentiveness.
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It can help us come into contact with our inner state, to become conscious of how we are feeling, and to support ourselves, no matter what we might experience.

We wish you an inspired,
calm and conscious state of mind.