ANXIETY | 5 Simple Strategies for Managing Anxiety

In this video, I share five simple strategies that can be used by adults or children to manage anxious thoughts and feelings. These ideas are all ones you can use t almost anywhere and nobody even need know you're doing them - so they can be great for busy classroom situations for example.

There are some old favourites and a couple I've not shared before. You can jump to individual ideas using the timestamps below or video chapters - or you can watch the whole thing. I hoped it might be helpful for INSET etc - please feel free to use and share it as you wish and let me know if it was helpful.

00:00 - Introduction
00:15 - 54321
01:29 - 5 finger breathing
02:50 - belly breathing
04:09 - safe space visualisation
06:06 - progressive muscle relaxation

This is a video version of an article I wrote for SecEd. You can read the text version here: https://www.sec-ed.co.uk/best-practic...

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