Drink hot milk.
Massage your neck and scalp.
Practice yoga or other stretching.Breathe deeply.
Change your facial expression.
Other:  
With one thing in the moment:
Focus your entire attention on just what you are doing.
Keep yourself in the moment.
Put your mind in the present.Focus your entire attention on the physical
Listen to a sensory awareness recording (or use Distress Tolerance Handout 9a)
Other:  
With a brief v acation:
Give yourself a brief vacation.
Get in bed; pull the covers up over your head.
Go to the beach or the woods for the day.
Get a magazine and read it with chocolates.
Turn off your phone for a day.Take a blanket to the park and sit on it for a whole afternoon.
Take a 1-hour breather from hard work.
Take a brief vacation from responsibility.
Other:  
With self- encouragement and rethinking the situation:
Cheerlead yourself: “You go, girl!” “You da man!”
“I will make it out of this.”
“I’m doing the best I can.”
Repeat over and over: “I can stand it.”“This too shall pass.”
“I will be OK.”
“It won’t last forever.”
Other: