The Anxiety Workbook for Kids: Take Charge of Fears and Worries Using the Gift of Imagination by Robin Alter & Crystal Clarke

Author:Robin Alter & Crystal Clarke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JNF053230 Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Issues / Depression & Mental Illness
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Next, you decide to join a bubble-blowing competition. Imagine that you have a piece of gum that’s bigger than any piece of gum you have ever chewed. Chew as hard as you can to get the gum ready to blow bubbles. Move the gum around. Feel it stretch your cheeks. Now, spit it out and take a break. Relax your cheeks. Push on them with your hands to feel how loose they are. Now, chew your gum again. It’s time to blow your big bubble! BLOW! Watch the bubble grow bigger and bigger, until…POP! The bubble pops, right on top of your nose. Pull it off and throw it away. You blew a really big bubble and won a ribbon! You also notice that your jaw and cheeks are filled with your calm, relaxed color now.

A small fly lands on your nose—it likes the sugar left on your face from the bubble gum! You don’t want to use your hands to get the fly off because they are still sticky from the gum. You decide to wiggle your nose to get it off! Wiggle, wiggle…the fly is gone! You can relax now. But wait…here comes the fly again. Wiggle hard! Okay, it’s gone. You can relax. But…oh no! Here comes another one! One more time…wiggle that nose! The fly flies over to the cotton candy stand and leaves you alone, and you can relax your face. Imagine that someone gives you a facecloth to wash your face. Scrunch up your face as you wash it. Imagine taking the time to enjoy smooshing your face muscles around with your hands. Imagine that the last little bit of the worried color is leaving your face. That color has now been pushed all the way up and out of your body—from your toes all the way up through the top of your head!

How do you feel after tightening and relaxing all of your muscles?

Even though you learned to tighten and relax your muscles by imagining a fun trip to the circus, you can tense and relax your muscles at any time, no matter where you are.

Use this checklist to help you remember each body part:

 toes and feet (mud)

 lower legs (goalie game)

 thighs and hips (cannon)

 belly (gate)

 back and shoulders (stretch)

 lower arms and hands (lemon-squeezing competition)

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