Belly Breathing

• Place a hand on your belly and the other on your chest.

• Close your eyes.

• Notice your breath.

• Take a deeper inhale and a slow exhale.

• Repeat - this time noticing your belly rise and fall, feeling your hand rise and fall.

• Complete 8-10 rounds of these deep slow belly raising breaths.

• Notice how you feel at the end.

Slow controlled belly breathing can help regulate our autonomic nervous system. This type of breathing can signal to our sympathetic nervous system (anxiety and stress response) that we are safe and can relax - we do not need to prepare to fight or flee.