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Our Mental Health Professional, Janet Garcia, guides you through a mindful breathing exercise to help the whole family relax.

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hello Melbourne family this is Miss Janet Garcia your mental health counselor today I am doing this recording safe from home I hope you are too I would like to teach you off Sabrina techniques so that in times when you are feeling anxious stressed overwhelmed you can focus on your breathing and regaining your thoughts in the moment so with breathing dust for us and why breathing is so important when we're feeling overwhelmed or anxious is that it helps ground us I'm so let's focus a situation where you're having a problem you're focusing our attention on that problem and it's very very hard to get out of that mindset however breathing it's accessible to you at all times you are breathing every single moment of your life you are able to utilize it as a tool to help you regain into your breathing and distract your mind away from the problem so what we're going to do today is we're going to learn how to breathe and how to fold I'm not breathing so that your thoughts can be focused in that moment and you forget about your stress you forget about your anxiety and you can use this at any point in your life or at any time in the day we're going to begin by learning to count our breaths and what I want you to do is breathe in and you're going to count three times as you're breathing in so I will practice we're going to breathing when 2 3 and released again we're going to breathe in and you're going to count but this time you're counting in your brain I am going to use my fingers only I'm not going to use my voice because I'm going to do it with you so here we go ready again we're going to breathe 3 and then we're going to hold our breath four times so after you've taken the three counts of reps you're going to hold it for four accounts let's do this together ready again race breathe now we're going to count three breaths we're going to hold for count and we're going to release again for counts let's do this together again we're going to breathe three counts hold it for 40 lb and release for four counts and we're going to do that three times in a row back to back here we go I hope you were able follow along to Remember You Can Count Your breaths the way I just taught you and it'll help you distract your brain and refocus your into your breathing can do this at any point during the day and to add a little bit cuz I suppose that we've been doing this continuously our accounts right and so we've done our three counts back to back so let's do one more count and then from there we're going to move into a little bit of meditation and I will guide you through the meditation it's going to be a very simple one just because one step at a time but let's do this together again continue to breathe and ask your breathing I want you to with every breath that you take focus on reading in love and breathing out hate Randy's hate breathe in happiness and release frustration breathe in strength and release pain read in peace and relief sorrow breathing piece again and release reason happiness and release frustration breathing strain and release pain remember that your breathing is free you can remember to breathe anytime that you're feel tents that you're feeling stressed that you're feeling anxious and overwhelmed practice on Counting practice on taking breaths that'll make you feel good that will make your heart your head your soul feel in peace and release all those things you don't want in your life will come again together and learn a different type of exercise so that you can stay healthy mentally healthy wow you're safe at home thank you Melbourne family for joining me today and I hope to see you all soon stay safe and namaste

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