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Back to School Mindfulness: Breathing

Welcome to the Zen(ish) Mommy’s Back to School Mindfulness series, where we discover tools to help your kiddo to manage the stress and anxiety that comes with going to school. Moms, remember that you can use these techniques too! Today, we’re talking about breathing, more specifically, the Seven to Eleven breath technique, an easy-to-remember practice to down regulate, shift your nervous system, and stabilize your energy. During today’s mini episode, you’ll learn a tool you can immediately implement to communicate to the body that it is safe and can release some of the stress that it is holding. Join us today to add this technique to your mindfulness toolkit!

Key Points From This Episode:

• An introduction to our series on mindfulness in schools.
• What it aims to do: equip you with tips and tricks to help your kiddo manage stress.
• A reminder that you can use these techniques in your own life as a mom too.
• The method we will be discussing today: the Seven to Eleven breath technique.
• What it aims to do: down regulate, shift our nervous system, and stabilize our energy.
• How to do it: inhale for a breath of seven, and exhale for a count of 11.
• How this method communicates to the body that it is safe and can release stress.
• Jessica encourages listeners to reach out and let her know how this method worked.

Tweetables:

“This counting forces the kids—and the moms—to focus more on slowing their breathing down, to really down regulate their nervous system, to tell their body it’s safe, and that we can really let go of some of that stress.” — The Zen Mommy [0:01:01]

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