When You’re Feeling Stressed:
Try:
- Naming silly colors and Disney princess dress colors, etc, things you like: red firetruck, pink piggy, etc
- Count backwards or count how many tiles, or things you see
- List off different items that are a certain color in the room like: the green leaves in a tree picture, the green chair, the green plant, etc
- Put on a pair of big headphones and just sit with them on. It helps muffle a bit of sound but also doesn’t make it extremely quiet
- If you want sound try putting on a guided meditation maybe. I enjoy doing the Breathing Exercise guided meditation on the Inner Hour app. It helps me a lot.
- Listen to something very upbeat like say… The Puppy Dog pals theme song or the theme to the beginning of Onegai My Melody maybe.
- Sing as many songs from different Disney movies or different shows you love. It helps. The sillier the better. Make it fun
- Be silly with your stuffie. Spin them, throw them, dance with them, boop their nose, etc.
- Jump in place until you can’t jump anymore
- Dance like you’ve never danced before, act like a ballerina, leap around the room, slide along the floors in your socks and pretend you’re at the ball Cinderella attended
- Play with make up.
- Try different hairstyles and see if there’s one you really like or just a silly one
- Go splash in puddles outside after it’s rained
- Take a bubble bath and stay for awhile, maybe put on some relaxing music in the background or bring your favorite bath toys.
- Take a bubble bath and act like a fishy while spitting out water
- Make some bubble mix and go outside with a tennis racket or something that you can blow through to make tons of bubbles. Bubbles are fun!!!
- Pop pop pop bubbles or maybe get some flavored bubbles and try to catch them.
- Go outside, close your eyes and listen to all the sounds around you like birds chirping, the wind, maybe a car passing or your dog barking, etc
