Shireen Rizvi

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Life Kit · What to do when you're too upset to think straight · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

It gets us more revved up.

So we wanna breathe from our belly area.

The second quality of paced breathing is to slow your breath down.

And the third component of paced breathing is that you want your exhale to be longer than your inhale.

So you might practice this with your belly, for example, breathing in for a count of four and then breathing out for a count of six.

Yes, exactly.

And the idea is that if you tense your muscles as hard as you can and then relax, you actually get to a greater sense of relaxation than if you just try to relax without tensing the muscle first.

And then the paired piece is to say the word relax or to say the word calm or some other cue word that you associate then with the relaxation piece.

So I think about improve as being a set of strategies that are available to you as tools in your toolbox for those moments where you can't do anything about the problem right now, but maybe there's a way to make it a little bit better.

And so the acronym stands for seven separate skills.

The first is imagery.

In the moment of crisis and difficulty, using visual imagery to think about something calming, going to your happy place, bringing to mind a particular image that is soothing and relaxing to you.

The M stands for meaning, and that's spending time thinking about what meaning you can draw from the experience no matter how hard it is.

So this is really hard right now, and at least I'm learning that I can tolerate it.

Yeah, I love that.

And actually, I didn't know that about you, but I also went through cancer treatment.

And I think that I use these skills a lot.

But I actually think that I have that similar experience where I wouldn't wish cancer on anyone.

And I did feel like it changed me in particular ways that I'm actually grateful for.

I did not get that.

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