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CALM

Stay in the moment.

Can you learn swimming when you are drowning? That might be

difficult.

To learn anything, we need to be calm. Stay cool-headed with less

noise in your mind by using the Coping Breathing Space practice stated

below. Be in the moment and not get trapped in your thoughts about

the past or worries and anxieties about the future. Once your mind is

calm, you can make PERRI wise decisions.

Let’s practise this Coping Breathing Space (CBS) daily for at least

three times a day to calm our mind. It’s as simple as ABC:

Awareness

of your body:

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Pause everything that you are doing. Let it go.

•

Bring yourself into the present

moment by standing tall like

a giraffe and in a comfortable

posture. If possible, close your eyes.

•

Becoming aware of your body

and the surface upon which you

are sitting or standing. How does

it feel like standing here?

•

Notice or mentally scan your

body from your feet and all the

way to your head.

•

Then ask yourself: What am I thinking

right now? How am I feeling?

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