Without being over-bearing or insistent, you can suggest that they tune in to their breathing, slow it down, float on the waves in a little boat, watch the fear or the pain, look for images and colors, use their imagination to “play” with the situation, and then remind themselves that these are just pictures in the mind, like movies; that they can change the movie, the thought, the image, the color, and sometimes feel better quicker and feel more in control.
