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Breathing exercises are a simple way to relieve anxiety and reduce stress, which you can do absolutely anywhere without anyone noticing. It just looks like you’re breathing normally. The more you practice Deep Breathing, the more it will become a habit, which means you will feel a general sense of calm as you go about your everyday life.

Deep breathing can help calm you down and reduce stress.

Deep breathing can help reduce and manage aches and pains for some people.

Deep breathing can help to reduce your heart rate.

Why should I do breathing exercises?

 Deep breathing can help calm you down and reduce stress. Deep breathing can help reduce and manage aches and pains for some people. Deep breathing can help to reduce your heart rate.

Deep breathing can help calm you down and reduce stress.

Deep breathing can help reduce and manage aches and pains for some people.

Deep breathing can help to reduce your heart rate.

What are the benefits of deep breathing?

This calming exercise is guided by an animated image that inflates and deflates. You can adjust the overall speed until it feels comfortable.

Deep Breathing

How to breathe deeply

Deep breathing is a calming technique that involves slowly breathing into your stomach area while ensuring your “out” breath is slightly longer than your “in” breath.

What is Deep Breathing?

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If you’re struggling to take deep breaths, try the exercise while lying on your back. This will relax your stomach muscles allowing them to move more freely.

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The timing of the out-breath being slightly longer than the in-breath results in your heart rate slowing down which can create feelings of being more calm and relaxed.

How do Deep Breathing techniques help?

These tools have been developed to help with feelings of anxiety, stress, or low mood.     Each tool only takes a few minutes. Health and wellbeing is an ongoing journey - so try them out and see what works for you.

Small Steps Toolbox

This tool can give you insight into how what you’re doing affects your mood, and recommends activities that can improve how you’re feeling.

Balancing Mood

Loneliness is a common feeling we all get from time to time. The tool asks you when you feel lonely and gives insights on why or what you can do about it.

Understanding Loneliness

During this mindfulness exercise, you’ll be guided by relaxing audio to calmly notice different visual aspects of images and apply this to your surroundings.

Mindful Watching

This tool can help to identify unhelpful patterns in your thoughts and beliefs and reframe them over time to help you feel better and make decisions that support your overall sense of wellbeing.

Reframing Thoughts

Improving Sleep is a quiz that helps you explore the things you can do or avoid that can lead to a better quality sleep.  There are a variety of tips available so you can choose something that suits your lifestyle.

Improving Sleep

During this exercise, you’ll be guided to identify sensations in your body that you often experience when feeling upset. You can use these as signals to react differently, use a tool, or engage in self-care.

Identifying Signals

Supporting Others gives you tips on what you can say or do when you’re helping someone who’s going through a hard time.

Supporting Others

Learn to appreciate the small things in life through practising gratitude. Doing this regularly can help lift your mood and make you feel happier. 

Gratitude Practice

Teach your body how to relax better through muscle relaxation. The key is learning to apply this skill in everyday life to the entire body so that you’re not tensing muscles when you don’t need to.

Muscle Relaxation

This skill involves fully focusing on what a person is saying, rather than selectively hearing. In this exercise, you’ll practice listening and develop an awareness of when you’re not paying attention.

Active Listening

This tool helps you on your journey to gain self-worth. Go through the Building Self-Worth card deck for energetic, reflective, or inspirational activities. 

Building Self-Worth

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Deep Breathing

How to breathe deeply

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