The heart lock-in technique

1) Shift your attention to the area of your heart and breathe slowly and deeply.

2) Activate and sustain a genuine feeling of appreciation or care for someone or something in your life.

3) Send these feelings of care towards yourself and others. This benefits them and especially helps recharge and balance your system.

Attitude breathing technique

1) Recognize an unwanted attitude.

2) Identify and breathe in a replacement attitude. Select a positive attitude and then breathe in the feeling of that new attitude in through your heart area. Do this for a while to anchor the new feeling.

stress -> neutral

anxiety -> calm and balance

feeling overwhelmed -> ease and peace

sadness or depression -> appreciation and nonjudgement

guilt -> compassion and nonjudgement

Tell yourself to take the "big deal" and drama out. "Take the significance out".

The quick coherence technique

1) Heart focus - focus on the area of your heart.

2) Heart breathing - imagine your breath is flowing in and out of this area

3) Heart feeling - continue to breathe through the heart, and try to recall a positive feeling and try to reexperience it.

The power of neutral

1) Take a time-out, breathing slowly and deeply. Imagine the air entering and leaving through the heart area or the center of your chest.

2) Try to disengage from your stressful thoughts and worried feelings as you continue to breathe. Set the intent to disengage.

3) Continue the process until you have neutralized the emotional charge.

Notice and ease (heartmath)

1) Notice and admit what you are feeling

2) Try to name and befriend the feeling

3) Tell yourself to e-a-s-e as you gently focus your attention in the area of your heart, relax as you breathe and e-a-s-e the stress out.

Use as soon as you start to feel anxious, tense, worried or sad.