Coaching practices for Self Havening Calming the Nervous System Through Touch During a Big Change
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- When I’m upset I instinctively want to hold my own face, the way someone would cup it if they were comforting me
- I don’t want to only scramble for calm once I’m already in pieces
- I’m flooded and my thoughts are useless right now
- I’m too flooded to think my way calmer
- The upset is sitting in my body, not my thoughts
Practices that may help
- Self-Havening: Calming the Nervous System Through Touch
Self-havening uses slow, repetitive self-touch on the arms, face, and hands — combined with distraction or eye movements — to interrupt acute distress and lower arousal. The proposed mechanism (delta-wave induction via touch de-potentiating traumatic amygdala encodings) is plausible but not yet independently replicated at scale. As a brief self-soothing technique many people find it calming in the moment; it is not a proven clinical treatment and should not replace professional care for trauma or PTSD. - Face havening
Gently stroke your cheekbones and forehead to activate the facial calm response.
Self-Havening: Calming the Nervous System Through Touch - The Havening Place (safe-place induction)
Combine havening strokes with a vividly imagined calm location to deepen resource anchoring.
Self-Havening: Calming the Nervous System Through Touch - Arm havening stroke
Slowly stroke both forearms from shoulder to elbow while keeping attention off the distress.
Self-Havening: Calming the Nervous System Through Touch - Use soothing touch as a physiological anchor
Physical self-touch — hand on heart, cupped hands on face — signals safety to the body.
The Self-Compassion Break - Physical self-soothing
Use touch, warmth, rocking, or breath to directly calm the nervous system.
Self-Soothing, Made Practical - Havening to clear pre-performance anxiety
Run a short havening sequence before a high-stakes event to lower physiological anxiety.
Self-Havening: Calming the Nervous System Through Touch - Use co-regulation — another settled nervous system — as a primary resource
Your nervous system can synchronize with a calmer one nearby; proximity to settled people is regulation, not weakness.
Neuroception: How Your Nervous System Reads Safety Before Your Mind Does - Five-senses self-soothe
Deliberately engage each sense with something genuinely comforting to redirect attention and activate the soothing system.
Self-Soothing, Made Practical - Build and use social safety signals
Establish cues in your relationships that communicate "you are safe here" — reducing anticipatory social stress.
Tend-and-Befriend, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Nervous System Calming Touch
Gently stroke your cheekbones and forehead to activate the facial calm response.
Face havening
- Self Havening Calming The Nervous System Through Touch At Work
Self-havening uses slow, repetitive self-touch on the arms, face, and hands — combined with distraction or eye movements — to interrupt acute distress and lower arousal. The proposed mechanism (delta-wave induction via touch de-potentiating traumatic amygdala encodings) is plausible but not yet independently replicated at scale. As a brief self-soothing technique many people find it calming in the moment; it is not a proven clinical treatment and should not replace professional care for trauma or PTSD.
- Self Havening Calming The Nervous System Through Touch During Conflict
Self-havening uses slow, repetitive self-touch on the arms, face, and hands — combined with distraction or eye movements — to interrupt acute distress and lower arousal. The proposed mechanism (delta-wave induction via touch de-potentiating traumatic amygdala encodings) is plausible but not yet independently replicated at scale. As a brief self-soothing technique many people find it calming in the moment; it is not a proven clinical treatment and should not replace professional care for trauma or PTSD.
- Calming The Nervous System
Use touch, warmth, rocking, or breath to directly calm the nervous system.
Physical self-soothing
- Self Havening Calming The Nervous System Through Touch After A Loss
Self-havening uses slow, repetitive self-touch on the arms, face, and hands — combined with distraction or eye movements — to interrupt acute distress and lower arousal. The proposed mechanism (delta-wave induction via touch de-potentiating traumatic amygdala encodings) is plausible but not yet independently replicated at scale. As a brief self-soothing technique many people find it calming in the moment; it is not a proven clinical treatment and should not replace professional care for trauma or PTSD.
- Self Touch Calming
Gently stroke your cheekbones and forehead to activate the facial calm response.
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