Step 1 – Befriending your feelings: When you are alone it is ok to yell and scream for a bit first. Then allow yourself to go into your feelings of being overwhelmed. Befriend feeling overwhelmed, embrace it, give it a hug like it is an old friend you know well and feel completely comfortable with, someone you love spending time with. Talk to your feelings of being overwhelmed, either internally or out loud – you can even write them down if you would like, and say to yourself  

“There you are, feeling overwhelmed. I invite you to be here, and I feel you. It makes a lot of sense that I feel this way with everything going on in my life right now. Sometime the tasks or emotions feel too big or too much And that’s okay. I understand, and I will love myself through this with deep kindness, warmth, and compassion. I will embrace the feeling of being overwhelmed and offer it some calmness within me.”

Then sit with your feelings of being overwhelmed in true compassion, understanding, and love. And if you’re overwhelmed and need more room because there is too much pressure, give it space to extend in order to release the intensity. You can give it space within you, outside of you, and as far as it needs to go. Stay with this first step till you start to feel calmer and more comfortable. As a reminder make sure you only show kindness and compassion for feeling overwhelmed and for yourself. It is important to embrace all of you. Stay with this step until you truly have embraced yourself through it. When you feel ready, go to step 2

Step 2 – Release: This step is simple. All you have to do is repeat one sentence over and over again till you actually feel the overwhelmed feelings leave your body. This is what you say internally or out loud as many times you need to:

“I clear and release my feelings of being overwhelmed (name what you are specifically overwhelmed about).” Or a more specific sentence: “I clear and release my feelings of being overwhelmed (name what you are specifically overwhelmed about) from within me and around me.”

When you spend some time on releasing the feeling of being overwhelmed, and you feel it is actually leaving, you can go to step 3.

Step 3 – Choosing: In this step you explore possibilities, positive choices, changing your feelings of being overwhelmed with baby steps to positive plan of action, or if all else fails find a positive distraction. It is important for this step to be positive to train your brain to transform negative feelings and thoughts into positive ways of thinking, feelings, and solutions. If you want guidance on how to figure out a different way of approaching your feelings of being Overwhelmed, please click here for the Brain/Gut exercise. After you made your choice make sure you follow up   – Namaste!