Pete Alexander2x TEDx Speaker and best-selling author helping transform burned out workers into engaged colleagues.

Stress Relief Tool - Engage Your Senses

14 Jul 2021 · 1 min

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In this brief instructional video, the speaker presents a quick, sensory‑based method for reducing stress. By deliberately activating one or more of the five senses—sight, smell, sound, touch, and taste—the viewer can instantly calm and re‑energize. For each sense the speaker offers a concrete, easy‑to‑implement suggestion: visualizing a happy place (sight), lighting a scented candle (smell), listening to a short podcast or audiobook such as the host’s 7‑minute "Winning at Business and Life" episode (sound), giving a hug to someone special (touch), and sipping a hot cup of coffee or tea (taste). The overall message encourages viewers to use these simple sensory cues, individually or together, as a rapid stress‑relief tool.

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If you are having a stressful day, the speediest way to stamp out stress is by engaging one or more of your senses—your sense of sight, smell, sound, touch, or taste—to rapidly calm and energize yourself. With that in mind, here is one idea for each of your senses to help you reduce your stress. Your sense of sight. Use visualization techniques where you see yourself in your happy place. Your sense of smell. Light a scented candle. Many different flavors are available. Your sense of sound. Listen to a short podcast or audiobook, such as the 7-minute one I host, the popular Winning at Business and Life podcast. Your sense of touch: give a hug to someone special to you. Your sense of taste: sip a hot cup of coffee or tea. This one engages all of your senses at once. So enjoy a little sensory stimulation and the stress relief that comes with it.