The outbreak of COVID-19 not only interrupted people’s daily lives, but also compromised people’s trust in environmental safety and human relations. So how to make sure we can live a physically and mentally healthy life in such an unusual time? Here we would like to share with you some practical and simple skills.

Environment experiencing

During this period of inactivity, you can make the environment tidy and cozy to adjust your mood.

When you feel panicked or uneasy, focus on the environment, fully use our senses, and try to experience and blind into surroundings by vision, touch, smell and hearing, which make us feel at ease, living in the moment, comfortable and enjoyable.

Body relaxation

You will get in a better mood after relaxing your body.

Relaxation through abdominal breathing: put a hand on your chest, put the other hand on your abdomen, breathe in through your nose, your abdomen will expand during inhalation process, then breathe out slowly through your mouth, and this is one cycle. Please do a few more cycles repeatedly.

Psychological warfare against the epidemic – Couldn’t sleep well? Let abdominal breathing soothe your body and mind.

Relieve your stress through abdominal breathing

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Besides, you can also do the ‘butterfly tap’: place each of your hand on the opposite shoulder, slowly tap your shoulders with left hand and right hand alternatively, and imagine yourself sitting in a very comfortable place, which make your feel so good.

Psychological warfare against the epidemic – A self-soothing skill for you: butterfly tap.

You can also do finger gym, neck exercise, eight-sectiond exercise, yoga and footbath before bedtime, or have a hot bath and make sure you get enough sleep, which can all help us relaxing our bodies.

Cognitive adjustment

Don’t get use to thing about negative things, and never think anything encountered from a negative perspective, which may give you a negative hint. You should give yourself more positive and encouraging hints, and learn to boost your positive energy by jokes and teasing.

Emotion stabilization

As for emotion, sometimes the more you resist it, the more attention you have on it. The harder you try to get rid of a negative emotion, the easier you feel depressed.

When you are in negative emotion, first try to figure out what is it, then name it as worry or anxiety, and express it by telling others your emotion.

New hobbies

You can do some exercises at home, or commit to something you are good at but don’t have time to do, such as singing, drawing, writing and making things.

You can also do something worthy and meaningful, such as helping others. Moreover, you can write thankworthy things in your diary, and thus accumulate every bit of positive energy.

Resource mining

Everyone got his own inner resources, which can help him getting through difficulties. We can always ask ourselves three questions: have we met similar dilemmas or challenges before? How did we successfully beat them? Whether we can use some of the strategies now?

Meanwhile, we can also looking for outer resources, such as mutual support and help from classmates, family members and friends.