Melissa, a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, shares simple techniques to calm stress while working night shifts. She covers physical, mental, and emotional grounding techniques like cold water therapy, sensory focus, aromatherapy, mental exercises, body scans, and visualization to help you reset in stressful moments.
These quick and effective tools can be done anywhere to bring you back to the present and restore a sense of calm. Try them out and see what works best for you!
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hello I'm Melissa a functional medicine
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certified health coach working nights
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can sometimes leave us feeling frazzled
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or stressed especially when work gets
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tough when that happens it's important
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to pause regroup and focus on the
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present moment so I'm sharing a mix of
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physical mental and emotional techniques
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that you can use right at work to calm
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yourself down so let's dive into these
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simple tools that you can add to your
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stress relief Leaf
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toolkit one of my favorite physical
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grounding techniques is running your
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hands under cold water focus on how the
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water feels on your
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fingertips palms and the backs of your
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hands switch between warm and cold water
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paying attention to how each feels this
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temperature shift can help refocus your
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mind and pull you away from anxious
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thoughts you could use touch with nearby
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objects
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pick up or touch items around you like
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your phone a pen or a nearby chair and
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focus on the textures weight and
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temperature of each object are they soft
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or hard warm or cool take it further by
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identifying specific colors like Crimson
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or turquoise instead of just red or blue
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engaging your senses can shift your
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focus from stress to the present
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I love Aroma theapy it can be a great
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stress reliever if you can't have scents
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at work keep a cotton ball with
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essential oil in a sealed container when
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you need to calm down inhale slowly and
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focus on the scent is it sweet spicy or
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earthy use the aroma to ground
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yourself some mental grounding
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techniques uh one is doing Simple Math a
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quick mental trick is to engage your
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mind with simple mouth problems like
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counting backward from 100 by sevens or
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thinking of basic addition or
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multiplication this gives your brain
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something productive to focus on pulling
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it away from anxious or stressful
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thoughts you could pick a category and
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start listing things in that category
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for example you could list as many dog
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breeds types of fruit or cities as you
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can think of this distracts your from
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stress and forces it to focus on
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something
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neutral some emotional calming calming
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techniques such as doing a body scan
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take a few minutes to check in with your
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body starting at your head and working
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your way down to your toes notice any
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tension and try to relax those
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areas this practice helps you connect
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with your physical self and release
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emotional stress trapped in your muscles
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you can visualize a calm space close
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your eyes and imagine a place where you
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feel safe and calm this could be a beach
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a forest or even your home picture it as
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vividly as you can how does the air feel
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what sounds do you hear this
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visualization can shift your emotional
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state into a more peaceful
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one these techniques whether physical
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mental or emotional are easy to do
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anywhere and can help you reset when
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things get
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overwhelming so try out a few and see
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which ones work best for you
