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How do you stim / self soothe?

NAS66534

I’m very stressed, constantly, harmfully. I’m 56 and stopped stimming as a child because I was told not to by my mother. I only remember rocking and eating toothpaste off a tissue. I feel I would benefit from letting myself stim but can’t think of the ways I used to do it. Can people please tell me how they self soothe so I can try different things? Thanks Steph 

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  • To self sooth, I hum, I find the resonance comforting, and if i have a headache, I try to sing into the sound that feels like it reaches my head - unsure if that makes sense. e.g. when I sing a low sound it might sit in my belly and singing higher sooths my head. 

    Also singing in general, I remember doing that a lot as a kid, but not realising until recently it could be a self-stimulatory behaviour.

    Types of movement, yoga, small balances, tapping, wagging my foot. 

    Hope you can 'follow your nose' to something that soothes.

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  • To self sooth, I hum, I find the resonance comforting, and if i have a headache, I try to sing into the sound that feels like it reaches my head - unsure if that makes sense. e.g. when I sing a low sound it might sit in my belly and singing higher sooths my head. 

    Also singing in general, I remember doing that a lot as a kid, but not realising until recently it could be a self-stimulatory behaviour.

    Types of movement, yoga, small balances, tapping, wagging my foot. 

    Hope you can 'follow your nose' to something that soothes.

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