{"id":9548,"date":"2020-08-11T18:14:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T18:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/?p=9548"},"modified":"2020-08-11T18:14:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T18:14:18","slug":"5-quick-coping-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/2020\/08\/5-quick-coping-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"5 quick coping strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To help people hit the reset button on stress and anxiety, Jenny Taitz, a psychiatrist at the University of California, Los Angeles, <a href=\"https:\/\/nl.nytimes.com\/f\/newsletter\/ZMDkdabSUAWU5HQ9PmKAXQ~~\/AAAAAQA~\/RgRhEFCMP0T2aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMC8wOC8wNi93ZWxsL21pbmQvZml2ZS1taW51dGUtY29yb25hdmlydXMtc3RyZXNzLXJlc2V0cy5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTE1NCZlbWM9ZWRpdF9jYl8yMDIwMDgwNyZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0yMTA5NyZubD1jb3JvbmF2aXJ1cy1icmllZmluZyZyZWdpX2lkPTg5NDk3NDYxJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MzU1NzMmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPTgzM2MzZDhkNDUxOWQyYmE1NTRhNmMxNmU2MjE2MzA4VwNueXRCCgA7jMstX7GnRjtSE2xjZXJjZW9AaG90bWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~\">has offered five quick coping strategies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lower your body temperature<\/strong> to help regulate intense emotions and slow your heart rate. Try dipping your face into a bowl of ice water for 15 to 30 seconds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pace your breathing<\/strong> by consciously inhaling and exhaling, slowing your breaths to six a minute. This can help lower blood pressure, among other physiological benefits.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to relaxing music<\/strong>, such as Marconi Union\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nl.nytimes.com\/f\/a\/cq87Z0dE9KqUpMNm10_14g~~\/AAAAAQA~\/RgRhEFCMP0TKaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MTU0JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NiXzIwMjAwODA3Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTIxMDk3Jm5sPWNvcm9uYXZpcnVzLWJyaWVmaW5nJnJlZ2lfaWQ9ODk0OTc0NjEmc2VnbWVudF9pZD0zNTU3MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9ODMzYzNkOGQ0NTE5ZDJiYTU1NGE2YzE2ZTYyMTYzMDgmdj1VZmNBVmVqc2xyVVcDbnl0QgoAO4zLLV-xp0Y7UhNsY2VyY2VvQGhvdG1haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA\">Weightless<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Practice \u201canchoring\u201d<\/strong> by digging your heels into the floor and observing what you\u2019re thinking and feeling. Evaluate whether those thoughts are helpful.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Improve your tolerance of stressful physical sensations<\/strong> by replicating them in quieter moments. For example, you can try hyperventilating by breathing through a coffee straw for one minute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help people hit the reset button on stress and anxiety, Jenny Taitz, a psychiatrist at the University of California, Los Angeles, has offered five&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9550,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9548\/revisions\/9550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}