19/06/2025
How is everyone doing?
Here are some TIPS for all those that have hearts that are racing a mile a minute from the sirens.
How is everyone doing?
Here are some TIPS for all those that have hearts that are racing a mile a minute from the sirens.
Firstly, if you are shaking and sweating and have your heart racing a million miles a second, know that your body is working properly. It’s trying to help you to escape something dangerous and it’s a survival tactic we have in our bodies. When our hearts race, we release adrenaline allowing us extra energy to be able to deal with danger. Your job is to get to a safe place, a shelter where you can be most protected.
Once you’ve done that, and now that you’re in that safe place, here are some techniques to calm yourself down.
1. BREATH. Pay attention to your body and specifically your racing heart. Try some breathing exercises. Inhale deeply into your stomach and slowly exhale your breath by either using a straw shape with your mouth or by saying “ssss…” as slowly as possible. When we exhale like that we are slowing down our heart from racing and therefore calming ourselves down.
2. HUG someone. Touch releases hormones that help us feel calm. If you have children, hug them and breath together. Your calm with help them deal with what they are feeling.
If you are by yourself, cross your arms and hug your shoulders. This has the same affect on releasing those calming hormones.
3. Keep your MIND busy, look around and find something blue, something orange, something round and something square. Count from 20 backwards or try and work on a word game.
4. Do NOT watch news all day. News is known to increase anxiety. Keep updated but limit yourself to not get caught up in it at all times. Do not expose children to graphic images, they respond differently to the way that we do.
5. Help separate the danger (when there is a siren) to when there is fear (that often stays long after the siren is here). When there is no siren, remind yourself you are safe. There is no immediate danger, you are okay and you have the strength to deal with whatever comes up.
6. GRATITUDE. It’s hard to see the good right now, but every rocket episode is an opportunity to be grateful that we are alive, well, and that G-d was protecting us at that moment.
Wishing you all safety, calm and love. We will get through this together.
7. HOPE. We are going through a difficult time but it is only temporary, we will get through it together.
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