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    This document provides 24 sensory cues and techniques that can help reduce stress and feelings of being overwhelmed. It lists sights like visualizations, nature photos, and colors; sounds such as music, nature sounds, and laughter; smells from aromatherapy and plants; movements like walking, stretching, and yoga; and tactile activities like squeezing objects, holding stones, and wearing wristbands. The document recommends using multisensory experiences that incorporate several senses, such as spending time in nature, using an aromatherapy diffuser with light and sound, or being by water features. The overall goal is to use different sensory inputs to help "circuit break" stress and feelings of being overwhelmed.

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    This document provides 24 sensory cues and techniques that can help reduce stress and feelings of being overwhelmed. It lists sights like visualizations, nature photos, and colors; sounds such as music, nature sounds, and laughter; smells from aromatherapy and plants; movements like walking, stretching, and yoga; and tactile activities like squeezing objects, holding stones, and wearing wristbands. The document recommends using multisensory experiences that incorporate several senses, such as spending time in nature, using an aromatherapy diffuser with light and sound, or being by water features. The overall goal is to use different sensory inputs to help "circuit break" stress and feelings of being overwhelmed.

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    How to Manage Feeling Overwhelmed

    with Heidi Hanna

    Coming to Your Senses


    Sensory Cues and Techniques That Help Circuit Break Stress Fast

    Sight 19. Using a heated and/or weighted blanket

    1. Guided visualizations or illustrations (see Breathing 20. Going barefoot, wearing flip-flops or sandals to free
    in Waves file in this course) your feet, or wearing fuzzy slippers to soothe your
    toes
    2. Photos
    Multisensory Integration
    3. Scenes of nature (pictures or the real thing when
    possible) 21. Flowers or plants (sight, smell)
    4. Colors that energize or calm you 22. Water features (sight, sound)
    5. Imagery that is fun, creative, or calming like monkeys, 23. Aromatherapy diffuser with light therapy and sound
    artwork, flowers (multisensory), water features (also (sight, sound, smell)
    multisensory)
    24. Spend time at the beach, in the park, forest, or other
    Sound natural environments

    6. Music (energizing, calming, motivating, inspirational,


    rhythmic)
    7. Sounds of nature
    8. Binaural beats
    9. Recorded laughter tracks
    Smell
    10. Aromatherapy (many resources to help you choose
    which scent for which mood, or learn to create your
    own blends
    11. Flowers, plants
    12. Baking, cooking
    Movement
    13. Walking, running, skipping, dancing
    14. Stretching
    15. Yoga, Tai chi, Qigong
    Touch/Tactile
    16. Squeezing a stress ball (or stress monkey in my case)
    17. Holding/rubbing a river rock or other smooth stone
    18. Wearing a rubber or silicone wristband to gently
    snap in place

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