Mental Strength in the Moment with Amy Morin
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Today on the James Alteger show. After my first husband passed away and I had this acne breakout. I'm 26, I have acne. I go to the dermatologist and he's like telling me that I should manage my stress better. Like in that moment, that was not helpful, like, hey, you should manage your stress.
Like, no kidding. The technique I did was I imagined the nervous version of myself left my body and was standing next to me. And I was able to sort of say, don't worry about it. Just come up to the stage with me and we'll be okay. And so that I separated myself from this person that was me, that was the nervous person who was afraid to go up on stage.
I started teaching people the same strategy that I was teaching kids, which is you pretend like you're smelling a piece of pizza and essentially you breathe in through your nose like you're smelling the pizza. And You hold it for a beat at the top and then you blow out through your mouth like you're pulling the pizza off. And the goal is you just make the exhale a little bit longer than the inhale. And you can do this sort of nonchalantly while you're in this conversation.
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