Breathing Exercise

• Place your hands on your stomach. As you inhale, breathe deeply but slowly so that your hands rise with your stomach. 
• As you exhale slowly, practice breathing so that your hands drop with your stomach.
• Inhale slowly through your nose with your mouth closed; don’t rush or force in the air.
• Exhale slowly through your mouth with your lips in the whistling position.
• Breathe out for twice as long as you breathe in."

"Advice to Counselors: Steps for Introducing a Breathing Exercise" from Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services. 2014. Accessed 5/18/2020.

Looking out...looking in.

Thought for the day: Balance is needed for health. Balance community with self.  Balance work with play.  Balance needs of today with needs of tomorrow. Balance knowledge with experience. Balance what you want to believe with what you can prove. 

I invite you to read this thoughtful article: "Wrapping Your Brain Around a Pandemic" https://lnkd.in/gdqj4JP

-Val