Body-based Techniques for Mental Wellness

When we experience stress or anxiety, our body often enters a "fight or flight" response, which can cause our heart rate to increase or create tension in our minds. Pulling ourselves out from it can be difficult when we're already feeling overwhelmed.    

Body-based techniques leverage the connection between our physical body and mind to help regulate the nervous system, interrupting the stress cycle and bringing us back to the present moment.  

Read on for 4 simple body-based techniques you can employ to ground yourself during moments of stress or anxiety.

As an advocate of mental wellness, TOUCH Mental Wellness (TMW) has been organising mental wellness awareness mass runs, talks and workshops since 2015. It works closely with corporations to conduct mental wellness talks with an aim of equipping employees with handles to cope with stress and help them build resilience. It also specialises in mental wellness awareness and educational programmes for schools. In 2018, TMW launched a Virtual Reality (VR) Immersive Experience on depression as part of its school-based mental wellness programme, Do You M.I.N.D.?. It also launched Singapore’s first-ever VR Gaming Experience to educate students on anxiety in a fun and engaging way.