Put the alarm clock twenty minutes earlier
"Toasted sandwiches, fruit salad, yogurt with honey ... I prepare a three-star breakfast, and I plan some time to enjoy it. Start the Zen day; it's the best way to stay. Marie, 29 years old.
A breathing exercise
"Close your eyes, take two minutes to breathe consciously, feel your belly rise during the inspiration and go down during the expiration, then gradually increase the amplitude of these two respiratory movements.
This simple exercise helps to refocus and zap negative feelings. This is the first thing I teach my patients during a relaxation session. "Helen Monnet, reflexologist, is the author of the book "The 50 golden rules not to stress".
Stuffed Zucchini
"A tension? Quick, in the kitchen! It is isolated, quiet, in front of my work plan that I let go of everything: I imagine my boss decapitating my zucchini round, then I finish off the fun by digging with a big spoon.
When I attack the mixed stuffing, it's already better. And if I add a excellent playlist above all that, I'm downright zen at the time of stuffing everything. There is more to wait until the little cherry on my ego: the admiring eyes of my roommate when I take out the dish from the oven. Claire, 24 years old.
An afternoon without a laptop
"The first time, it makes me weird. I'm afraid of missing an important phone call. Then I relativize: I'm not a firefighter, and "emergencies" can wait a few hours. Time for a Sunday walk in the country with my sweetheart.
What freedom to completely disconnect! It's much easier to reconnect both, without a screen in the middle.
When we get drunk, we even let ourselves go to some naughty follies sheltered by a bush. And to say that a phone call from my mother could have spoiled everything, as evidenced by the time of her call on our absence. Lou, 28 years old.
Meditative music
"My colleagues are having a fancy break? I resist - I stopped six months ago - and hop: I plug my headphones, I connect to radio-zen.com, and I close my eyes for ten minutes listening to relaxing music. Malia, 28 years old.
A relaxing pillow mist
"I love that of L'Occitane, offered by a friend. I spray on my pillow before sleep, and essential oils release their relaxing power. There is undoubtedly a part of the placebo effect, but this little ritual appeases me and helps me to sleep. Magalie, 22 years old
A massage with hot stones
"On the advice of a friend, I bought a kit at Nature & Découvertes: a hot briefcase with eight basalt pebbles. To heat the rollers, merely connect the case. This is my guy who plays the masseurs. Shiatsu is most popular massage and Japanese are the creators of this incredible massage technique, I don't go to Japan to have it lol, a few japanese massage chairs provide human like massage at home, I just use one of these.
I lie down on my stomach and Max has only to follow the instructions: put the big stones on the back or stomach where I have tension, place the small stones on the face or between the toes, then massage me by making eight with the oval stone. He pushes the game to talk to me with a sexy Brazilian accent: "Mademoiselle, do you feel it act, the heat of the stone?"
I nod: my knots are loosened one by one, gently. I'm so good that Max has to wake me up to claim his share: "My turn!"Gaëlle, 28 years old.
A magic gesture
" Summer on the beach, rocked by the scent of the shore and Monoi, relaxed as ever, I" fixed "a small gesture good luck: my thumb between the index finger and middle finger. The rest of the year, I have to do this again before an interview or a date to let up the wave of serenity. Sylvia, 26 years old.
Think of my mother
"I do not even have to call her to hear her reassuring voice say,"Breath, it's going to be okay. "I'm using this visualization to calm down. She does not know it, but I owed her the success of my first date with the most beautiful guy on Earth last week. »Eloise, 23 years old.
A film tirade
"Alone in front of my mirror, I enter the skin of a character, and I play a scene of plummeting, stung in a film or invented. I know by heart the tirade of Valerie Benguigui in "The Name," when she sends waltz everyone: enjoyable. And super effective to blow off a big blow. When I get back to myself, I feel a lot more zen. "Allison, 27 years old
Sing
"My guy has to endure my vocalizations all day long. But when he sighs, I remind him that it's for the excellent cause: singing, it relaxes. It's the singing teacher who says it. For song, we use abdominal breathing, the same as that used in relaxation.And taking out what you have in your belly in a musical form does a lot of good. »Elodie, 24 years old.
Bach Flowers
"Insomnia, weight gain, addictions, lack of concentration, laziness. Bach flowers soothe all ills! For me, a few drops of Rescue anti-stress under the tongue before an appointment, and I take the hair of the beast. "Colette, 31 years old.
