FRIED. The Burnout Podcast

#straightfromcait: 3 Ways To Add Ease To Your Day Without Changing Your Circumstances

Dec 29, 2024

Discover three effective ways to bring more ease into your hectic day, without altering your responsibilities. Learn how to focus on relaxing tense muscles to reduce stress and signal to your vagus nerve that you're okay. Explore the benefits of slow grooming as a reminder of safety. Plus, find out how to combat that false sense of urgency that many experience. Incorporating these simple strategies can transform even the busiest days into more peaceful ones.

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Paying attention to tense muscles and taking moments to relax can significantly alleviate stress and enhance overall well-being throughout the day.

Incorporating small, comforting acts of self-care into daily routines can provide a sense of safety and counteract feelings of urgency and stress.

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Relaxing Tensions for Ease

Paying attention to tense muscles throughout the day can significantly create more ease in daily life. Taking moments to relax the jaw, eyes, and shoulders can help lower overall stress levels and signal safety to the body. Setting an alarm to remind oneself to check in and relax these areas every few hours can be an effective practice. By committing just a few moments to this mindfulness, individuals can alleviate unnecessary tension and enhance their well-being throughout the day.

Four Strategies to Cultivate Daily Ease Without Changing Your Environment

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“I want you to forcibly slow yourself down,” says Cait on this #straightfromcait episode of FRIED where she offers three tips—and a special bonus—to help you create more ease throughout your day, without taking away from any of your responsibilities or plans. These are short, simple yet effective ways to check in with yourself physically, mentally and emotionally to eliminate unnecessary tension and make life’s tasks more bearable.

Cait will share which parts of the body to focus on to lower your overall stress response and signal to your vagus nerve that you’re OK. She’ll explain why slow grooming reminds us that we’re safe and how we can cut down on the false sense of urgency that drives most of us throughout our days.

Life is busy, and no one can expect to be relaxed all day every day. But taking a few extra minutes to incorporate these tips into your daily routine will do wonders to make you feel more relaxed, at peace and at ease as you tackle your tasks.

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“With only those three things, you will create more ease throughout the course of your day, and you will be signaling to your vagus nerve that you’re OK, that you’re getting through the day, and you’re not adding any extra tension where it’s not necessary so this will lower and damper your stress response over all.” (1:42 | Cait Donovan)
“When you take those extra few minutes to slowly groom yourself, you are giving your central nervous system a signal that you’re safe and OK because you can’t groom when you’re in danger.” (3:09 | Cait Donovan)
“Not every task is going to feel wonderful and I’m not asking you to make it feel wonderful, but what if you could take just a few moments to turn on the Spotify playlist that you love that makes you feel good while you are folding and putting away laundry.” (4:23 | Cait Donovan)
“Because so many of us function with this really false sense of urgency in every single task we do, I want you to forcibly slow yourself down.” (5:05 | Cait Donovan)

Connect:

Initial Call with Cait: bit.ly/callcait

Initial Call with Sarah: bit.ly/callsarahv

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