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This 2-minute video for families features Mental Health Therapist Stephanie Dann talking about progressive muscle relaxation. - We can change how our bodies feel when we are stressed by using progressive muscle relaxation. -This involves focusing our attention on different parts of the body, noticing how they feel, tensing the area, and then releasing. It can help to pretend like you are squeezing the water out of a clay ball. -Try squeezing hard for 10 seconds and releasing your hands, toes, shoulders, jaw, and in between your eyes. You can do other parts of the body too if you wish. Challenge: When you feel stressed or upset, try taking a minute to use progressive muscle relaxation to release the tension.

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Hi. My name is Stephanie Dann. I'm a mental health therapist that works with the White River School District. Last week we talked about using deep breathing to help our brains get back online when we're feeling stressed. There's other ways to change how we feel when we're stressed, and I wanted to teach you another technique called progressive muscle relaxation. Often times, our bodies are quite tense. Our muscles are really tense, and we don't even realize it. Using progressive muscle relaxation is when we focus our attention on different muscles or different areas of our body, notice how they're feeling, and just try to relax those areas. It involves squeezing the areas of your body, the muscle groups, and then releasing them. Often times it's helpful to imagine that you're holding a clay ball and trying to squeeze the water out. So let's do this together. Pretend like you have some clay balls in your hands. Squeeze as hard as you can. Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. Feel the tension. And let go. I want you to imagine you have clay balls underneath your feet. I want you to squeeze your toes. Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. And release. Now imagine the clay balls are up on your shoulders. I want you to squeeze them as hard as you can, up into your ears. Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. And then let go. Imagine you have a clay ball, right in between your teeth and try to bite down on it. Squeeze ...and release. And the last one, this one's my favorite, pretend like you have a clay ball right here in the middle of your eyes. Squeeze them together, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. Feel the tension. And let go. This is another simple technique that you can do, like deep breathing, to change the way that your body feels. Try doing this the next time that you're feeling stressed. Take a moment and practice progressive muscle relaxation

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