- Breathe
- Pick a sense (i.e., hear, see, touch, taste, or smell) to focus on for the next 5-minutes. Do your best to focus only on the sense letting everything else around you be.
- Food
- Take 5-minutes to plan your next meal – make it healthy.
- Bonus: If you have time, approx. 20min, you can watch the attached video for 15-helpful tips to eating healthy food.
- Self-care
- Finish this sentence: “I really like who I am because___________________.”
- Exercise
- For 5-minutes mix n’ match any of these low level 1-minute exercises to get your body moving and your blood circulating.
- Squats 8-10x
- Wall Push-Ups 8-10x
- Heel Raises 8-10x
- Squish a Tennis Ball 5x each hand
- Military Press 8-15x
- Lateral Arm Raises 8-15x
- Bicep Curl 8-15x
- Hip Extension 8-15x
- To do:
- In 5-minutes complete a household chore or an uncompleted task at work.
- Social
- Take 5-minutes to talk to the next person you see whether it is a complete stranger or a life-long friend have a conversation with them. If it helps you can use any of these open-ended questions to get the conversation going:
- Would you rather work from home or from the office? Why?
- What is your typical work day like?
- What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
- If you could instantly become an expert in something, what would it be?
- Have you ever completed anything on your “bucket list”?
Physical Interventions - Severe
Pick a sense (i.e., hear, see, touch, taste, or smell) to focus on for the next 5-minutes. Do your best to focus only on the sense letting everything else around you be.