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Writer's pictureDeborah Jenkins, SHRM-CP, PHR

Palms Down/Palms Up: Calming Your Stress

Updated: Apr 9, 2021

Are you feeling stressed? Having trouble focusing, making good decisions, and feeling joy? You are not alone! There are quick tricks to help and here is one.


Even before you notice the rise in you stress level, check your breathing pattern. It likely is short, shallow, and rapid. You are exhaling all of that healthy oxygen before it can circulate properly throughout your body. This is what you can do.


Take the time to invest in your health and well-being with a short 30-second pause in your busy life to calm down, breath, and meditate with the palms down/palms up exercise (or paws down/up if you are a pet lover like me). You can do this at your desk, in your car, on your porch, in the shower, heck anywhere you can be alone for 1/2 a minute without disruptions. Here is how...


Have a blessed day!

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