Training for teachers “Formula of a good mood”

Training for teachers “Formula of a good mood”

Training for teachers

"Formula for a good mood"

Training objectives:

• Mastering ways to relieve emotional stress and ways to prevent it;
• Forming an understanding of the need to preserve health;
• Activation of the process of self-knowledge and mutual knowledge among teachers;
• Creating conditions for group cohesion;
• Formation of adequate self-esteem of professional qualities and level of aspirations;

Training objectives:

• Consider and test options for relieving emotional stress;
• Creating a favorable emotional mood that promotes unity among the teaching staff;
• Encourage participants to analyze their personal and professional activities;
• To develop the skills of objective assessment of real and desired relationships in the family and at work;

Equipment

: music for relaxation, Whatman paper (“Mood Calendar”), markers, colored pencils, standard sheets of paper, handouts.

Introduction.
Relevance of the chosen topic.
Leading.

The profession of a teacher requires great endurance and self-control.
From numerous intense contacts with students and parents, the teacher experiences great neuropsychic stress, which manifests itself in emotional exhaustion. Often teachers are in situations of extreme emotional stress. According to my observations, sometimes you experience this emotional stress not at the end of the year, but already at the beginning, of course this is due to the specifics of working with the contingent with whom we work.
One wise man said: “It’s better to say it once and do it yourself than to hear about it a hundred times.” And I wanted you to start work in a good mood. I will try to help restore your strength and remind you of the importance of preserving health in our professional activities. Let's try, using special methods, to activate the internal resources of the individual. Maybe look at each other from a different side that was unknown to you and just relax and unwind a little.

It is no secret that not all of you view the interaction between a teacher and a psychologist with optimism. Therefore, I chose the poem “Free Conversation” as the epigraph for our meeting today:

Main part

Exercise No. 1 “Mood calendar.”

Purpose: diagnosing the mood of the participants.

Carrying out: a mood calendar is created. All the names of the participants are written on the board. Participants are offered pictures (a sun – a good mood, a cloud – a bad mood, and a cloud with the sun – a not very good mood). The participant chooses the picture that best suits his mood and attaches it next to his name. At the end of the session, the mood of the participants is also monitored.

Every group has rules by which it operates or adheres. And I propose a number of specific rules, you can also propose your own rules, which we will adhere to. Rules are norms that significantly reduce wasted time, allow you to work productively on yourself and help achieve the main goal of the lesson.

Rules for group work.

1. Address each other by name.
2. Accept yourself and others as they are.
3. Be sincere.
4. Avoid judging each other.
5. Active participation in what is happening.
6. Respect for the speaker.
7. Each group member has at least one good and kind word.
8. Confidentiality of everything that happens in the group.
9. Communication based on the “here and now” principle.

Exercise No. 2 “Name and epithet.”

The group sits in a circle and each one introduces himself to the others in turn, saying his name and epithet. This adjective should begin with the same letter as the name, positively characterize the person and, if possible, contain exaggeration (genius Gena). The participant must first repeat the name and epithet of the previous speaker, then name his combination.

Issues for discussion:

• What epithets impressed me?
• What names did I have trouble remembering?
• Who am I interested in now?

Exercise No. 3 “Ordinal counting”.

Goal: Establish eye contact with all participants. Everyone sits in a circle, one person says “one” and look at any participant in the game, the one he looked at says “two” and looks at the other.

Exercise No. 4 “Cornice”.

Goal: strengthening goodwill, openness and mutual assistance in the group.

Teachers stand one after another, touching their shoulders and focusing on a line on the floor. Psychologist: “This feature is the cornice of a high-rise building. The toes of your shoes are the edge of this cornice. One person from the group, if desired, must walk along the ledge and not fall down. The group's task is to help him with this. Support in the form of physical contacts and brief conversations are allowed. The main thing is to walk along the cornice!”

Then the participant who “walked along the cornice” shares his impressions: on what part of the path he felt supported, where it was difficult for him to cope with the game task and why. Group members also exchange views on why support was successful in some cases and not in others. If a player “falls”, this is also discussed in the group.

Exercise No. 5 “Washing machine”.

Goal: relieving excess tension.

All participants stand in two lines facing each other. The first person is the “machine”, the last person is the “dryer”. The car passes between the ranks, everyone washes it, strokes it, rubs it carefully and carefully. The dryer should “dry” it – hug it. The one who has passed the “wash” becomes a dryer, and the next car comes from the beginning of the line.

Issues for discussion:

• How did you feel when you went through the “wash”?
• Whose touch was more pleasant to you?

Exercise No. 6 “Balance is real and desirable.”

Goal: discussion and objective analysis of the real and desired balance of personal and professional life of teachers.

Material:

paper, pen or pencils.

It is proposed to draw 2 circles, in the 1st, focusing on internal psychological sensations, using sectors to mark the current relationship between work (professional life), housework and personal life (travel, leisure, hobbies).

In the other circle is their ideal ratio.

Are there any differences? What are they? Why did this happen?

What can be done to bring one closer to the other? Due to what?

On whom or what does it depend?

Exercise No. 7 “Screen test”.

Goal: developing a sense of self-worth.

1. Make a list of 5 things in your life that you are proud of.
2. Select one accomplishment from your list that you are most proud of.
3. Stand up and tell everyone: “I don’t want to brag, but...” and follow up with words about your achievement.

Issues for discussion:

• How did you feel sharing your achievements?
• Do you think others experienced the same thing as you when you performed? Why?

Exercise No. 8 “Good catcher”.

Goal: to develop the skills of a positive attitude towards life situations.

Instructions (Quiet instrumental music plays.)

Whatever happens to you, try to find the positive sides in everything. Let's practice. Please find and write down positive moments in the following situations:

1. You are getting ready for work, the weather greets you with pouring rain.
2. You are late for work, you run to the bus stop, and the bus leaves in front of “your nose.”
3. You don't have money to go on vacation somewhere.
4. A friend did not congratulate you on the holiday.
5. Your child got into a fight at school.

Comments for the presenter.

Participants write their own positive aspects for each situation. Everyone takes turns reciting these points. The participant who points out more than 5 positive aspects in each proposed situation is awarded a medal: “Benefit Catcher”!

Exercise No. 9 “I’m offended when...”.

Participants write a phrase on pieces of paper that begins with the words: “I’m offended when...” and finish the sentence, indicating their offense. Then each participant, in a circle, utters his grievance. Next, participants are asked to pretend to be offended. Each participant in a circle says “my offense is like...” and imitates. The next one continues, saying “(name of the previous participant)’s resentment is like..., and my resentment is like...” and also depicts. Then follow the snowball principle.

It is suggested to crumple up the pieces of paper with the sentences “I was offended when...”, and throw them in the trash with the words “ I don’t need this offense anymore!”

I don’t need this dark thought anymore.”

Exercise – relaxation “Self-developing performances” (music, sound of the sea).

Goal: to develop the ability to switch activities and relieve emotional stress.

Sit comfortably. Close your eyes. Relax. We take a deep breath and exhale. Let's focus on our feelings. Now let’s try to recreate in our imagination a complete picture, a complete image.

Imagine a beach by the sea. Hot day. The sun is beating down. You are in a bathing suit. We stretch out on the sand with pleasure... We look out to sea. The heads of the swimmers are visible... Let's take a closer look at the horizon line. What appeared there? We look closely... And what is happening around, on the shore?

The sun is hot, you have to turn from side to side. I want to swim... We enter the water... We feel its touch... What is it like?

The images go away. Focus your attention on your body. They clenched their hands. We opened our eyes.

Reflection exercise:

Were you able to see the whole picture and evoke the corresponding bodily sensations? What prevented you from relaxing? How to overcome this situation?

Final part.

Exercise No. 10 “Applause” (farewell ritual).

Instructions. Stand in a circle. Hold hands and feel the warmth of your colleagues' hands. May this feeling of warmth remain in your souls for a long time.

The presenter begins to clap her hands and approaches one of the group members. This participant then chooses the next one from the group to whom they both applaud. The third chooses the fourth, etc. The last participant is applauded by the whole group.

“Mood calendar”

(note whether the mood of the teachers changed after the lesson).

Training reflection:

Did the training help you relieve stress and improve your emotional state? Has something changed in your feelings and well-being? What exercises can you do on your own to maintain your mental health? and physical health? In the next classes you would like to become familiar with health and health preservation techniques.

Psychological games for teachers

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Do you love life? Do you want to be healthy? Healthy physically and psychologically? Give yourself a few minutes a day for psychological relief and you will experience a new taste for life...

PSYCHOLOGICAL GAMES FOR TEACHERS

We will play now so that we can win in life later! The mental overload that a teacher experiences every day in his work destroys his personality and depletes his psychoenergy. An overtired teacher loses the state of stability necessary for successful teaching activities.

A lot is written and talked about in literature and on television about the causes of stress. This is a feeling of guilt, loss of values, hatred of work, etc. Physiological signs of stress: insomnia, headaches, palpitations, back pain, stomach pain, heart pain, indigestion, cramps. Psychological signs of stress are absent-mindedness, memory loss, anxiety, tearfulness, excessive worry, unreasonable fears, and irritability. All this leads to loss of self-confidence, the emergence of various psychosomatic disorders and even diseases, and drug dependence.

Many people begin to hate work, home and everything that surrounds them. What to do? The solution is the following - change your lifestyle, change yourself!

I would like to quote the words of Walter Russell: “If you do something that you hate, because of hatred, your body begins to produce destructive toxins, and as a result of this, you begin to suffer from chronic overwork and get sick. You need to love everything you do. Or, to put it another way, do what you can do with love. This is what Eastern ancient wisdom says. Do everything with joy, do everything in the best way you know how. Love for yourself, your loved ones, home and the work you have to do will replenish your supply of physical and mental strength and save you from fatigue.”

When stressed, the supply of vitamins in the body is quickly consumed, especially group B. Many doctors advise taking vitamins daily, but remember about overdose. Everything should be in moderation. Physical exercise is very beneficial. Go to the gym, do exercises, dance, sing, walk around the city, visit the pool, sauna. It is necessary to engage in mental and physical relaxation. Try these simple ways: listen to relaxing music, look at the night sky, at the clouds. For a harmonious life, a person needs the support of family and friends. Go to psychological trainings, meet new interesting people, pay attention to your family and friends. All this will help you neutralize stressful situations.

1. Mini-lecture “If you don’t resist stress, what does it lead to?”

Bring teachers to the idea that many illnesses begin due to the inability to relieve neuropsychic tension and the inability to defuse negative emotions. To introduce teachers to the concept of self-regulation and suggest effective ways to relieve neuropsychic stress:

• relaxation – tension – relaxation – tension, etc.
• sports activities
• cold and hot shower
• laundry
• washing dishes
• finger painting
• crumple up the newspaper and throw it away
• Competition: put your stress into crumpling a sheet of newspaper, make this lump as small as possible and throw it away.
• Tear the newspaper into small pieces, even smaller pieces and throw away.
• Paint over a newspaper spread
• Sing your favorite song loudly
• Shout loudly or quietly
• Dance to music, both calm and “violent”
• Look at a burning candle
• Inhale deeply up to 10 times
• Take a walk, shout
• Count the teeth from the inside with your tongue.

How to defuse negative emotions?

Can

defuse your emotions by speaking out among friends who will understand and sympathize.

If you're alone

you can express your anger by beating a pillow or wringing out a towel, even a dry one. After all, most of the energy accumulates in the muscles of the shoulders, upper arms and fingers.

Produce

any spontaneous sounds - tension may be “locked” in the throat.

Most

Participating in any kind of sport provides complete relaxation. Therefore, real athletes have not only physical, but also mental health.

Beneficial

Nature acts on humans. Walking through the forest, contemplating the movement of a river or the calm surface of a lake, forest sounds and smells can restore peace of mind and efficiency even in the most difficult situations.

Respiratory

gymnastics: three or four short exhalations in a row, then the same number of short breaths. Thanks to this, the flow of impulses going to the brain during a deep breath is broken, which is very important during stress.

Laughter and crying -

an excellent means of protection against mental overload that nature gave our brain. Laughter turns out to be a kind of protection for the nervous system. It can be thought of as a series of short exhalations. These exhalations crush the dangerous flow of impulses. This exercise combines the healing properties of crying and laughter.

1. Exercise “Empty or Full”

Now I will show you a glass filled to the middle with water. Some people will say that it is half empty, while others will say that it is half full. How would you respond? Both are true, but these statements express different attitudes to what is happening. In 5 seconds you can find out whether a person is an optimist or a pessimist. A positive attitude towards facts and people is better than a critical one. Each of us is more pleased when in a specific situation (even in our mistakes) people see at least something positive. Learn and draw conclusions.

1. Exercise "Glass"

I put a soft plastic cup on my palm and tell the group members the following: “Imagine that this cup is a vessel for your innermost feelings, desires and thoughts (pause). You can put in it what is really important and valuable to you (pause). This is what you love and what you value very much.” There is silence in the room for several minutes. At an unexpected moment, I crush this glass. Next, we work with the emotional reactions that arose among the group members. It is important to discuss what the participants felt and what they wanted to do, etc. It is possible to draw a parallel between the experience “here and now” in a communication situation: When do the same feelings arise? Who controls them? Where do they go afterwards?

In conclusion, I would like to tell you: “What you are experiencing now is real stress, this is real tension. And the way you experienced it is your real reaction to stress, your reaction to the problems that you have, including in communicating with other people.”

4. Exercises to relieve emotional stress:

1. Make a fist with your thumbs curled inward. Exhaling calmly, slowly, clench your fist with force. Then, releasing your fist, inhale. Repeat five times. Now try this exercise with your eyes closed, which doubles the effect.
2. Take two walnuts and move them in a circular motion in each palm.
3. Lightly massage the tip of your little finger.
4. Place a walnut on your palm closer to your little finger, press it with the palm of your other hand and make circular movements with the walnut for 3 minutes.

5. Mini-lecture.

The mental overload that a teacher experiences every day in his work destroys his personality and depletes his psychoenergy. An overtired teacher loses the state of stability necessary for successful teaching activities.

One of the forms of effective assistance to the teacher is psychocorrectional methods that contribute to the development of internal means of self-correction, self-development and self-healing.

We present to your attention the development of psychological games, game episodes and exercises that you can perform independently. The main thing that is required is to have a desire to strengthen your psyche and develop your own personality.

The goals of psychological games are purely psychotherapeutic:

Games contribute to the harmonization of the teacher’s inner world, ease his mental tension, develop internal mental strength, and expand professional self-awareness. Game exercises help the teacher to navigate his own mental states, evaluate them adequately, manage himself, maintaining his mental health and, as a consequence of this, achieve success in professional activities with a relatively small expenditure of neuropsychic energy.

Psychotechnical games do not require much time or special premises. Alone or in pairs with another, the teacher can perform exercises during breaks between lessons, on the way to work or home. Try to develop the habit of psychological actions: then the need for mental stability and internal order will appear.

In 3-5 minutes spent on psychotechnical exercises, a teacher can relieve fatigue, stabilize, and feel self-confident. Both the worker, who takes a shower after a hard day, and the teacher, performing special psychotechnical exercises, resort to the “psychological shower” method, which cleanses his psyche.

6. Exercise “Inner Ray”

The exercise is performed individually, helps relieve fatigue, and gain internal stability. In order to perform the exercise, you need to take a comfortable position, sitting or standing, depending on where it will be performed.

Imagine that inside your head, in the upper part, a light ray appears, which slowly and consistently moves from top to bottom and slowly, gradually illuminates your face, neck, shoulders, hands with a warm, even and relaxing light. As the beam advances, wrinkles are smoothed out, tension in the back of the head disappears, eyebrows fall, eyes “cool”, clamps in the corners of the lips are loosened, shoulders drop, and the neck and chest are freed. The inner ray, as it were, forms a new appearance of a calm, liberated person, satisfied with himself and his life.

Perform the exercise several times - from top to bottom.

End the exercise with the words: “I have become a new person! I became young and strong, calm and stable! I’m doing everything well!”

7.
EXERCISE “PRESS”
The game exercise is performed individually. Neutralizes and suppresses negative emotions of anger, irritation, increased anxiety, aggression. We recommend doing this exercise before working in a difficult “class,” talking with a “difficult” student or his parents, or before any psychologically stressful situation that requires inner self-control and self-confidence. The exercise is best performed immediately after you feel psychological tension. If for one reason or another this moment is missed, then the raging emotional “element” can sweep away everything in its path and make it impossible to control itself. As a result, what we see so often happens: negatively charged energy is “dumped” onto a student or work colleague. And most often, the “grounding” of negative energy, unfortunately, occurs in the teacher’s family, where he weakens internal control after work.

The essence of the exercise is as follows. Imagine inside yourself, at chest level, a powerful press that moves from top to bottom, suppressing the negative emotions that arise and the associated internal tension. When performing the exercise, it is important to achieve a clear feeling of the physical heaviness of the internal press, suppressing and, as it were, pushing down unwanted negative emotions and the energy that they carry with them.

The exercise is not recommended for people suffering from cardiovascular diseases.

8. EXERCISE “TREE”.

Any tense psychological state is characterized by a narrowing of consciousness and a person’s hyperconcentration on his experiences. A noticeable weakening of internal tension is achieved if a person has managed to take action from himself to the center of the situation and transferred it to some object or external circumstances. Decentration allows you to transfer, “throw out” a negative state into the external environment and thereby get rid of it.

The exercise is performed individually. It develops internal stability, creates a balance of neuropsychic processes, freeing you from a traumatic situation.

On the way home, in public transport, imagine yourself as a tree (the kind you like, the one you most easily identify with).

Replay in detail the image of this tree in your mind: its powerful and flexible trunk, intertwining branches, foliage swaying in the wind, the openness of the crown to the sun’s rays and the moisture of the rain; circulation of nutritious juices along the trunk, roots firmly rooted in the ground. It is important to feel the nutritious juices that the roots draw from the ground. The earth is a symbol of life, roots are a symbol of stability, a person’s connection with reality.

9. EXERCISE “MARIA IVANOVNA”.

The exercise develops internal means of role decentration. Performed individually, within 10-15 minutes.

Imagine your unpleasant conversation, for example, with the head teacher. Let's call her Maria Ivanovna, who allowed herself an uncivil tone in a conversation with you and unfair remarks. The working day is over, and on the way home you once again remember the unpleasant conversation, and a feeling of resentment overwhelms you. This is harmful to your psyche: against the background of psychological fatigue after a working day, mental stress develops. You try to forget the insult, but you fail.

Try going the other way. Instead of forcibly erasing Maria Ivanovna from your memory, try, on the contrary, to bring her as close as possible. Try playing the role of Maria Ivanovna on the way home. Imitate her walk, her manner of behavior, play out her thoughts, her family situation, and finally, her attitude towards a conversation with you. After a few minutes of this game, you will feel relief and tension will subside. Your attitude towards the conflict, towards Maria Ivanovna will change, you will see in her a lot of things that you did not notice before. In fact, you will be involved in Maria Ivanovna’s situation and will be able to understand her. The consequences of such a game will reveal themselves the next day when you come to work. Maria Ivanovna will be surprised to feel that you are friendly and calm, and she herself will probably begin to strive to resolve the conflict.

10. EXERCISE “HEAD”.

The profession of a teacher is not only classified as stressful, it is a profession of managerial work. The teacher is forced to continuously influence children during the working day: to restrain them in some way, to suppress their will and activity, to evaluate, to control. Such intensive management of the learning situation causes “management stress” and, as a consequence, when overexerted, various physical ailments. One of the most common complaints from teachers is headaches and heaviness in the back of the head.

I offer you an exercise to help relieve unpleasant somatic sensations. Stand straight with your shoulders back and your head thrown back. Try to feel in which part of the head the feeling of heaviness is localized. Imagine that you are wearing a bulky headdress that puts pressure on your head in the place where you feel heaviness. Mentally remove the headdress with your hand and expressively and emotionally throw it to the floor. Shake your head, straighten the hair on your head with your hand, and then throw your hands down, as if getting rid of a headache.

11. EXERCISE “MOOD”.

A few minutes ago you ended an unpleasant conversation with the mother of a child who constantly violates discipline and is aggressive. In a conversation with her, you talked about raising your son in a family, the need for regular monitoring, and the fact that permissiveness, which, in your opinion, is cultivated in a student’s family, will not lead to anything good. After all these conversations, the child’s mother suddenly announced that teachers should educate her, that she did not have time for this. You couldn't help yourself in response. Your intentions for a calm and constructive conversation have been destroyed.

How to remove the unpleasant aftertaste after such a conversation?

Take colored pencils or crayons and a blank sheet of paper. Relaxing, with your LEFT hand, draw an abstract plot - lines, color spots, shapes. It is important to completely immerse yourself in your experiences, choose a color and draw the lines the way you want, in full accordance with your mood. Try to imagine that you are transferring your sad mood onto paper, as if materializing it. Have you finished your drawing? Now turn the paper over and on the other side of the sheet write 5-7 words that reflect your mood. Don’t think for long: it is necessary for words to arise spontaneously, without special control on your part.

After this, look at your drawing again, as if reliving your state, re-read the words and with pleasure, emotionally tear up the piece of paper and throw it in the trash.

You noticed? Just 5 minutes, and your emotionally unpleasant state has already disappeared, it turned into a drawing and was destroyed.

12. EXERCISE “PROBERBS”.

We offer an exercise that effectively “relieves” internal depression and bad mood, helping to solve a complex problem that you have. This problem may be related to your profession, family life, relationships with friends.

Take any of the books: “Proverbs”, “Thoughts of Great People”, “Aphorisms”, etc. Flip through the book, read phrases of proverbs or aphorisms for 20-25 minutes until you feel internally relieved.

Perhaps, in addition to mental relaxation, one or another proverb will lead you to the right decision. You may also be reassured by the fact that not only you have a problem; many people, including historical figures, have thought about ways to solve it.

13. EXERCISE “I AM A CHILD.”

Do you remember what game you liked to play most as a child? Now go to your child or grandchild and invite him to play this game. During the game, you must play the role of a child, be on an equal footing with your partner. This gives him the opportunity to feel like a leader and discuss the rules of the game with you. And you will feel the freshness, originality, originality of children's thinking, the richness of the child's inner world. You will probably become closer to him.

14. EXERCISE “OPENNESS”.

One of the conditions for success in teaching is the teacher’s ability to communicate correctly, interact during dialogue, and communicate with children. It is known that even the most correct provisions will not be perceived or will cause negative emotions if children feel your arrogance, coldness, neglect, or alienation. The guys may even protest against your demands and pointedly ignore them. Don't be surprised - you weren't open to dialogue.

Try the following exercise. In front of you is an interlocutor (child, work colleague, family member). Make your face friendly, smile, nod to your interlocutor as a sign that you are listening carefully and understand him. “Open” your soul to the person with whom you are communicating, try to get psychologically close to him.

15.
EXERCISE “RESERVOIR”.
In a conversation with a child, colleague, parent, or at home in a conversation with your family, feel like an “empty form”, a reservoir into which your interlocutor “pours”, “lays” his words, states, thoughts, feelings. Try to achieve the internal state of a “reservoir”: you are a form, you do not react to external influences, but only accept them into your inner space. Throw away all your personal assessments - as if there is no reality, there is only an empty form.

Difficult? Practice 2-3 times before starting a conversation and it will be easy for you. Then, when you are sure that you have formed the internal state of the “reservoir,” enter into dialogue and try to treat your interlocutor impartially and unbiasedly. This will help you understand it better.

16. EXERCISE 11. “SURNAME - FIRST NAME.”

I would like to tell you a little psychological “secret”.

A teacher who uses means of pedagogical manipulation usually calls his students by their last name. This formal “top-down” approach emphasizes the business, administrative style of interaction.

And, on the contrary, a teacher who strives for real communication with children, as a rule, calls them by name. Moreover, the more often he pronounces the name of his student in a conversation with him, the stronger the psychological contact between them.

And one last thing. A manipulative teacher often refers to his student in the third person in his presence. For example: “Just listen to what he says!?” The student stands nearby and hears that they are talking about him as if he were an absent person. Can you imagine the human humiliation he experiences?! A progressive teacher will never allow himself to treat a child in such a way. He will say: “Valera, what are you saying!?”

Do you understand the difference in these two phrases? Draw your own conclusions!

17. EXERCISE “MUSCLE ARMOR”.

It is known that at the physical level there are muscle mechanisms that block human emotional activity. Seven circles of “muscular armor” are described that cross the body and suppress the manifestation of immediate emotions: at the level of the eyes, mouth, neck, chest, diaphragm, abdomen and pelvis. When a person has a dominant position “above,” the energy is usually concentrated in the upper part of the body: the eyes tense (“gaze”), the mouth compresses (“hard lips”), and the neck and chest are covered with a “shell.” At waist level, the flow of energy is blocked by muscle tension. In order to change position, you first need to relieve tension in the eyes, mouth, neck and chest. We offer several simple exercises for this.

BREATH. Take a deep breath before the conversation. As you exhale, with a sharp movement in your imagination, it’s as if you “tear off” the tense mask from your face: “extinguish” your eyes, relax your lips, free your neck and chest. Imagine that through exhalation you remove the muscle “rings” enveloping your body and throw them away - from your eyes, lips, neck and chest. Freed? Now start the conversation.

MASSING. Perhaps another way to relieve tension and move to the “equal” position will suit you. Before starting a conversation, touch your eyes with your fingertips, run your palms over your face from forehead to chin, as if removing an old mask. This gesture, which will take you 1-2 seconds, will become for you the limit to which you were in the “over” position. Having crossed the “border”, you found yourself in a position of “equal” and began to fulfill a different role. A role transformation has occurred: in class you were the teacher, and now, before the conversation begins, you become the interlocutor.

18. Exercise “Relieve stress, fill your life with happiness!”

Those who are right-handed have negativity and everything connected with the past is on the left side of the body, for left-handed people the opposite is true. To perform the exercise, we stand up, right-handers begin to vigorously wave their left hand, and left-handers begin to wave their right hand. Movements of the hand, as if we are brushing it off, and saying: “Get away from troubles, bad mood, illness, tension, etc.” Then we wave with the other hand, move the hand towards ourselves and say: “To me health, joy, luck, luck, happiness, love, etc.” And then with both hands we energetically wave towards ourselves to consolidate the “alpha” state. The feeling usually after this exercise is super!

Prepared

Psychologist of the State Public Enterprise “Aksu College of Ferrous Metallurgy” Guseva Angelina Aleksandrovna