(via House of Turquoise)
How to get it?
1. Slow your breathing. Your tongue should rest on the bottom of your mouth (it opens up your airway and allows more air to get through). Just five minutes of this and you should be breathing slower without any effort.
2. Stop multitasking. Turn off the music in the car, turn off your phone and quit texting, ignore your email inbox, turn away from your computer monitor and look at something else. Think about the next one thing you really want to do or really should do. And do it only.
3. Remind yourself that you’re okay. I do this audibly or inaudibly, depending on my circumstances. Give yourself permission to be okay. We often wait for others to tell us this. We can tell ourselves!
4. Slow the tempo of your music or turn down audible noise. The thump, thump, thump of a hip-hop song makes you want to get up and be active (at least it does for me) while the blare of overly loud commercials makes me want to run screaming from the room; when I want to be calm, I put on something achingly gorgeous and revel in the audio beauty.
5. Sip hot tea. They have tea called calming, you know. It does something to us to slowly sip a cup of tea (not a caffeine-induced tea or coffee), something natural that is soothing. Try it.
And that’s how to get to calm.
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