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Self-Soothe
The Self-Soothe skill helps you use your five senses to feel relaxed. Your body and mind are connected. You can relax your mind by relaxing your body. This will help you manage anger, anxiety, and depression.
When you practice the Self-Soothe skill, you relax one (or more) of your five senses.
The five senses are:  Vision
 Hearing  Smell
 Taste
 Touch
When you are practicing Self-Soothe you need to be paying close attention to your five senses. Use your mindfulness skills to help you focus just on the thing you are doing to help you feel more relaxed.
There are many ways to practice Self-Soothe. What is relaxing to one person might not be relaxing to another person. Keep trying different ways to Self-Soothe and find what works for you!
Check the ones that you can try. Write in other ideas:
Vision
□ Buy or find a flower to look at
□ Light a candle
□ Look at an old photo of a happy memory □ Look at or draw something you like
□ Look at pictures of nature
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