A safe place

Creating an imaginary  “Safe Place” helps reduce anxiety and stress:

In a calm, comfortable room close your eyes if you want to and think of a place you felt, or would feel, safe and calm. This could be real or imagined. Often, this may be a sunny beach or a walk in a forest. Try to visualise the scene and note everything you see. Take a minute or so to do this. Start to focus on the increasingly finer detail and closely note everything you hear, smell , feel and taste- birds tweeting, the breeze on your arms, sand in between your toes, the smell of the sea. Again, take your time. Really tease out the detail and help reinforce this in your mind. The trick is to reinforce, reinforce, reinforce. Spend one minute of silence letting yourself “be there”. 

Count back slowly from 5 to 1, open your eyes and take a deep breath. Let yourself know how well you did in your descriptions.
When you are anxious or feeling unsafe recall this safe place in as much detail as possible.