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TEARS @
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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- Familiarize yourself with those situations in which you are likely to cry. Be prepared: bring tissues, make up.
- Be aware of places you can go to cry if the impulse to cry overwhelms you--bathrooms, stairwells, or even just outside.
- Swallow saliva. and then bite your tongue.
- Practice long., slow deep breathing every day. Visualize a peaceful place as you breathe.
- Take a really deep breath, during any occasion on which you feel that you might cry, and let it out calmly and coolly. You might even try to think of something that makes you laugh. OR, when you find yourself in a situation in which you are likely to cry, try your long, slow, deep breathing and visualization. There's no need to wait until you're fighting the impulse: start a little earlier than you think you'll need to and continue a little longer than you think is necessary. Be ready to retreat to a safe place if you have to.
- Once you're certain you're fine, return to your normal breathing pattern.
- Inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth.
- Blink a few times and look into the light; this makes your pupils constrict and keep tears from falling.
- Cross your eyes. This is also another way to prevent tears from forming.
- Also, rolling your eyes works the same way.
- Pinch yourself, or bite your tongue -- your mind will focus on the pain instead of the emotion. Don't pinch so hard that you cry from the pain, though.
- Get a stress squeeze toy. It really helps release all the negative energy that's all inside. Screaming helps too sometimes. Get something to scream into that makes it muffled and quiet.
- Do math problems in your head. Emotion comes from the right side of the brain. Doing even simple addition and subtraction activates the left side of your brain and can circumvent the emotional response you're having.
- Press your tongue to the roof of your mouth (or tickle the roof of your mouth with it).
- Smile. Yes, this is what everyone tells you to do but smiling usually releases endorphins that make you feel better.
- Laugh. Laughing is a common impulse when there is something funny. Though this is not a fun situation, laughing stimulates chemicals in your brain that causes crying and clams it.
- Yawn. Yawning helps to loosen the tight feeling in your throat that comes along with crying.
- Pinch. Pinch the skin between your index and thumb. Or anywhere else that works for you. It concentrates your brain onto a new area of pain which makes the tears stop forming.
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