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Sep 26, 2017

This special ‘Notice and Ease Tool’ helps take the intensity out of stress responses.

The simple steps of the ‘Notice and Ease Tool’ will guide you. It will teach you how to take the intensity out of negative emotions, ease them, and experience more good feelings such as joy, compassion and vitality. Once you name, identify and admit unwanted feelings such as anxiety, tension, anger, worry and sadness, you’ll find it’s a lot easier to neutralize and release them. By using the tool you will experience more positive emotions which will increase the feel good hormone DHEA, which promotes emotional vitality, slows the aging process and offsets the stress hormone cortisol. (HeartMath web site)

Do try it out, it is so quick and easy. A wonderful habit to add to your personal wellbeing tool kit. Click the link below

https://www.heartmath.org/resources/heartmath-tools/notice-and-ease-tool/

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