Your Sonic Stress Coach

Try these four simple stress and anxiety techniques yourself, and then teach them to your clients to support the work you do with them. Stress is like snow that makes it more challenging to get where we want to go. These strategies work to clear the way to sharper focus, improved mood, better quality sleep, and greater overall physical and mental health.

Quick Calm (0:00-2:15)

This popular deep-breathing technique is designed to rapidly launch the Relaxation Response during and after stressful situations. It’s also a centering, focus-booster to use at the start of sessions and before presentations.

Sonic Tonic (2:15-4:38)

Nature, even the digital kind, is a powerful relaxer. The natural environment offers endless, free opportunities to get away from stress and anxiety, and this Sonic Tonic is your quick ticket to a few of them.

Mental Healthclub (4:38-7:25)

When we’re stressed out, it’s tough to recall and dispatch all of the things that help us feel less overwhelmed and more in control. The Mental Healthclub exercise makes this powerful process easier, and it’s a great technique to use with coachees, family and friends.

Rehearsal Imagery

Employed effectively by Olympic athletes in the 1970s, Rehearsal imagery reduces the stress of challenging conversations, presentations, and other situations, by increasing locus of control and reducing the element of surprise.

These samplers are adapted from Stress Coach U, the self-paced course that trains coaches, counselors, educators and others to use and teach concrete stress and anxiety reduction techniques.