This document provides guidance for teachers on relaxation techniques to teach angry or distressed children. It discusses helping children understand the difference between stressed and relaxed states in their body. Basic relaxation strategies are described, such as dimming lights and speaking softly. Specific breathing exercises are outlined to teach children relaxation breathing, such as rhythmic breathing, counting breaths, and deep breathing. Muscle tension-release techniques are also described. The goal is for children to learn self-calming methods using cues like breathing and relaxation words.
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In reality, it's important to learn really good breathing patterns that you consciously choose to use throughout your baby's birth journey. Yes, that's right. You need good breathing skills and so does your support person or coach.
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Learn good breathing patterns, adapt them as sensations change and use them to do the work of giving birth no matter how that unfolds.
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Have you heard the nonsensical statement: 'You breathe all the time and you'll breathe in labour'. Duh! But think about it. Screaming is breathing. Moaning, groaning, crying is all breathing. Shouting, holding your breath, yelling are all forms of breathing. And too many women use all of those breathing patterns.
In reality, it's important to learn really good breathing patterns that you consciously choose to use throughout your baby's birth journey. Yes, that's right. You need good breathing skills and so does your support person or coach.
The basis of learning good breathing patterns comes from understanding that all humans breathe in only 4 ways. There are variations of those 4 ways.
Knowing which of the 4 ways are sustainable (one of the 3 qualities) opens the door of understanding to which variations are adaptable (another of the 3 qualities). Then it's all about 'choosing' to use (the 3rd quality) your good breathing patterns throughout your baby's birth no matter how challenging. The most important 'choice' you'll ever make in your baby's birth is how to use your inhalation to expand inside your pelvis and how to use your exhalation to soften inside your pelvis.
Learn good breathing patterns, adapt them as sensations change and use them to do the work of giving birth no matter how that unfolds.
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Directed Breathing is one of the very best childbirth skills for the birthing woman and birth coaching dad.
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2. • Teachers and parents can help an anger-prone child
understand the difference between a stressed state and a
relaxed state, so that the child recognizes the physical stress
signals and applies relaxation strategies. We can explain to
the child that, in a stressed, worried, or angry state, he will
feel the tightening and hardening of body parts like the fists,
clench, neck, jaws, and stomach. In a relaxed state, the body
loosens and feels less tight. With a relaxed body, the child is
better able to think, plan, and problem solve.
• Once the child recognizes the difference between stress and
relaxation, you can teach the child a basic relaxation strategy.
To start, talk in a low tone of voice, speaking softly and gently.
Dimming the lights and keeping a quiet environment helps
the child concentrate only on your voice.
4. • Breathing exercises are important in training children
how to relax. Children can practice relaxation breathing
in their chairs, seated on the floor, lying down, or even
standing. It is preferable if their eyes are closed, but they
can keep the eyes open.
Some breathing exercises that we can teach an anger-
prone child are:
• To teach the child to breathe rhythmically --rhythmical
up and down of the abdomen-- tell her to “breathe with
the waves” in a slow, measured pace.
• Teach the child to count her breaths slowly from one to
ten, focusing on the numbers.
• Teach the child to take big, slow, deep breaths.
• Teach deep breathing by inhaling deeply and exhaling
very slowly.
5. • Tell the child to take a deep breath and to hold it for
about ten seconds, then to let the air out.
• Show the child how to inhale deeply through the nostrils
and to exhale slowly through the nose or the mouth.
• Say, “Take a deep breath through your nose and slowly
let it out. Take another deep breath... Now, pay attention
to your body swaying softly… gently… like the ocean
waves… Making you feel loose and relaxed.”
• Deepen the relaxation feeling by counting aloud from
one to five, or from one to ten, with a three-second
interval between numbers. With each number you say,
the child inhales; when the child breathes out, you
suggest that her body is loosening and that she is feeling
more and more relaxed.
6. • Instruct the child to sit comfortably and say, “Can
you pay attention to your breathing? How it comes
in… and how it goes out again… In… out… in… out…
And as you notice your breathing, begin counting
your breath each time you breathe in… Counting to
ten; then begin again with one… If your mind
wanders, and all our minds wander, gently bring it
back to one and start counting again” (Mahony,
2003).
• Have the child concentrate by counting while
inhaling and thinking the word “relax” while
exhaling. The child goes to ten and back down to one
in a continuous cycle.
8. • Once the child knows relaxation breathing, we can use a word or a
signal to cue the child in using relaxation breathing and self-calming
statements to relax and to gain self-control. Schaefer (1994)
recommends the following procedure to establish a cue word
association:
1. Have the child pay attention to his breathing while he whispers the
cue word with each exhalation.
2. For the first five pairings (exhales-cue word), the teacher or parent
repeats aloud the cue word, matching the child’s exhalations.
3. The child continues independently for fifteen more pairings.
4. Give the child one minute to allow him to notice the general
feelings associated with relaxation.
5. Have the child practice the pairing twenty more times.
Schaefer recommends that anger-prone children practice both
relaxation exercises and cue word associations on a daily basis.
9. • Two known techniques are breathing-cued
relaxation and cue-controlled relaxation. In
breathing-cued relaxation, the child takes three-to-
four deep breaths and relaxes on each breath out. In
cue-controlled relaxation, the child breathes in and
out repeating slowly a self-calming word or a phrase
like “relax,” “chill,” “control,” “calm down,” “cool it,”
or “take it easy.”
• We can combine deep breathing with a cue word
such as “relax” or “one.” The child takes a deep
breath, holds it, and then exhales slowly. Exhaling,
the child concentrates on the cue word, loosening
the body from head to toe.
10. • Bedell and Lennox (1997) recommend using
slow breathing. With this technique, the child
takes ten diaphragmatic breaths in sixty
seconds; inhaling for three seconds while
mentally counting (1,2,3) and exhaling for three
seconds counting (3,2,1). After each six-second
breaths, the child says to herself “relax.” This
repetition by itself promotes relaxation, and the
word “relax” triggers the relaxed state associated
with breathing out.
12. • For deeper relaxation, we can teach children the muscle
tension-muscle release technique; concentrating in areas
like the neck, shoulders, arms, hands, thighs, and legs.
One at a time, have the child tense each muscle for five
seconds while she concentrates on the tension feeling.
Then, the child releases the tension, enjoying the feeling
of relaxation. The teacher or parent can lead the child,
saying things like, “I wonder if you allow yourself to
enjoy how naturally and easily your (shoulders, legs,
etc.) get loose and relax”; “It is so nice to notice how
much better you feel when you are relaxed than when
you are all tight.” Alternatively, “It seems to me that you
are ready to let go the (anger or tension)… It feels so
good to let go… That’s how you want to feel… nice and
loose… and relaxed.”
13. • With a younger child, we can use the robot/rag
doll technique. Tell the child to tense up all the
muscles in his body and visualize himself as a
stiff robot. Have the child hold this tense state
for about fifteen seconds. Then, tell the child to
release all the tension and picture a rag doll with
all his muscles very floppy and loose. Hold this
relaxation state for about fifteen seconds.
Continue practicing until the child knows how to
relax (Bloomquist, 1996).
14. References
1. Bedell, J. R., & Lennox, S. S. (1997). Handbook for
communication and problem-solving skills: A
cognitive-behavioral approach. New York: John
Wiley.
2. Bloomquist, M. L. (1996). Skills training for children
with behavior disorders: A parent and therapist
guidebook. New York: Guilford Press.
3. Mahony, T. (2003). Words work! How to change your
language to improve behaviour in your classroom.
Carmarthen, Wales: Crown House.
4. Schaefer, C. E. (1994). How to influence children: A
handbook of practical child guidance skills (Second
Edition). Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
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