Emotional First Aid Series: The Butterfly Hug Technique
Emotional First Aid Series: The Butterfly Hug Technique
Feb 6, 2020
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The butterfly 🦋 hug is a self-soothing technique which helps calm our nervous system and release stress from the body. I use this technique almost daily as it’s so effective. The Butterfly Hug was created by psychotherapist and trauma specialist Lucina Artigas, is a simple tool for finding a sense of safety in the body and a calm mind. Cross your arms and gently tap alternating sides of the body, typically the shoulders or upper arms in a rhythmic pattern.👐 By stimulating both sides of the bra
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The butterfly 🦋 hug is a self-soothing technique which helps calm our nervous system and release stress from the body. I use this technique almost daily as it’s so effective. The Butterfly Hug was created by psychotherapist and trauma specialist Lucina Artigas, is a simple tool for finding a sense of safety in the body and a calm mind. Cross your arms and gently tap alternating sides of the body, typically the shoulders or upper arms in a rhythmic pattern.👐 By stimulating both sides of the bra
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Let’s relax together! Meet the Butterfly Hug adapted from emdr practices—a gentle technique you can use anytime, anywhere. This rhythmic tapping helps create bilateral stimulation, which mimics the effects of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy to soothe distress and promote emotional processing. How to Do the Butterfly Hug • Hand Placement: Cross your arms over your chest and place your hands on your collarbones, shoulders, or upper arms (whichever is most comfortable).
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Let’s relax together! Meet the Butterfly Hug adapted from emdr practices—a gentle technique you can use anytime, anywhere. This rhythmic tapping helps create bilateral stimulation, which mimics the effects of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy to soothe distress and promote emotional processing. How to Do the Butterfly Hug • Hand Placement: Cross your arms over your chest and place your hands on your collarbones, shoulders, or upper arms (whichever is most comfortable).
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A butterfly hug is a simple grounding technique where you cross your arms over your chest and gently tap left, right, left, right. Think of it as giving your nervous system a calm little soothing rhythm to follow. Why it helps with everyday stress and distress That alternating tapping sends a safety signal to your brain. It can slow racing thoughts, bring you back into your body, and help settle overwhelm when your stress feels louder than your logic. No equipment, no special setting, no one eve
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A butterfly hug is a simple grounding technique where you cross your arms over your chest and gently tap left, right, left, right. Think of it as giving your nervous system a calm little soothing rhythm to follow. Why it helps with everyday stress and distress That alternating tapping sends a safety signal to your brain. It can slow racing thoughts, bring you back into your body, and help settle overwhelm when your stress feels louder than your logic. No equipment, no special setting, no one eve
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Butterfly Hug! 6-Minute Self-Soothing Meditation For Children Using The Butterfly Hug Technique. | Hajarah D.
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Dr Anastasiya | Burnout Recovery on Instagram: "Butterfly hug tapping is a gentle somatic exercise that helps your nervous system feel safe again. By crossing your arms and tapping side-to-side, you’re giving your body bilateral input - a rhythm that tells your brain “I’m okay.” Simple regulation. 💛 Save this for the days your body feels stuck in stress."
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Bilateral Stimulation for Anxiety and Overwhelm with Butterfly Tapping Your brain has two hemispheres with very distinct and often non integrated functions. When you create rhythmic, alternating stimulation between them, neural integration is facilitated. The nervous system begins to process, integrate, and reorganize the experience. This is called bilateral stimulation. Try any of these three simple ways to practice Bilateral Stimulation. Butterfly hug: Cross your arms over your chest and alter
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Replying to @jackiegamboa4 I hope this helps! Here’s a little more about both techniques ✨ Butterfly taps- also known as the butterfly hug, this technique uses bilateral stimulation to help regulate brain activity and process trauma. This is one of my favorite methods when I need to finish the fight/flight/freeze cycle ❤️ here’s a cool resource with references to read more about how it’s used in a clinical setting: https://emdrfoundation.org/toolkit/butterfly-hug.pdf Havening- a newer technique,
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