Belly Breathing
Belly Breathing is a coping skill that can help with anxiety, panic, strong depressive thoughts, overwhelming feelings, and much more. It is a very simple skill that involved breathing deeply in and letting the breath expand your stomach before breathing out again as your stomach moves towards your spine. It is a very useful and simple coping skill that is basic and easy to practice!
This sill can be helpful in situations where we are in our stressful environment and experiencing an increase in anxiety or panic, and need to be able to calm down a little. Taking a few minutes to take that breath into our stomach, hold onto it, release, and hold again can really reduce our stress and get us into a space where we can access both emotional and logical reasoning.
