Hungry / needing food
Your body may be asking for food. Try: Try a snack or a small meal before deciding anything else.
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Thirsty
Your body may be asking for a drink. Try: Have some water, then check in again in a few minutes.
group: bodymatched clues: Thirsty / dry mouthmatched clues: Headachematched clues: Have a drinkmatched clues: Tired or sleepy
Tired / low energy
Your body may be low on fuel and needing rest. Try: Rest before deciding anything. A lie down or a quiet break can help.
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Physically uncomfortable
Your body may be saying something feels wrong or uncomfortable right now. Try: Sort the physical thing first: temperature, clothes, position, or the toilet.
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Needs movement
Your body may have energy that has nowhere to go yet. Try: Move on purpose for a few minutes: walk, stretch, or shake out your hands.
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Comfortable / settled
Your body may be saying things feel okay where you are. Try: You don't need to change anything. Let it stay comfortable for a while.
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Energised
Your body may have plenty of energy right now. Try: Use it on something you enjoy, or something you've been meaning to start.
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Needs quiet / lower sensory demand
Your body may be taking in more sound, light or people than it can hold. Try: Somewhere quieter, dimmer or emptier can help, even for a few minutes.
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Decision stuck
Your brain may be trying to work through too many possibilities at once. Try: Make the decision smaller, choose between two things, or work out only the first step.
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Overloaded
There may be more coming in right now than your brain can sort through. Try: Lower the demands: fewer inputs, fewer questions, and one thing at a time.
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Uncertain
You may not have enough information yet to know what you want. Try: Find out one more thing before deciding.
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Shutting down
Thinking, choosing or responding may be getting much harder. Try: Lower the demands, move somewhere quieter, have more time, or stop for now.
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Low capacity
Your brain and body may only have a small amount available right now. Try: Do less than usual. One small step is enough, and it can wait if it needs to.
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Focused
Your brain may be locked onto something in a way that is working well. Try: Keep going while it lasts, and leave a note about where you were up to.
group: capacitymatched clues: I'm really focused on somethingmatched clues: Thinking normallymatched clues: Keep goingmatched clues: I'm enjoying what I'm doingmatched clues: Keep doing what I'm doing
Calm
Your body may be saying things feel manageable right now. Try: Keep doing what is working.
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Ready to keep going
Your brain and body may both be saying there is more in the tank. Try: Carry on, or pick the next small step while it feels doable.
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Happy
Your body and brain may be saying something feels good right now. Try: Keep enjoying it, tell someone, or remember what helped this feel good.
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Excited
Your body may be buzzing about something coming up or happening now. Try: Let the energy move, or tell someone what you're looking forward to.
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Interested
Your brain may be telling you this has your attention. Try: Keep exploring it or save the idea for later.
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Proud
Something you did may matter to you, and your body may be noticing that. Try: Tell or show someone, or write down what you did so you can look back on it.
group: emotionalmatched clues: I finished somethingmatched clues: Smilingmatched clues: Tell someone about itmatched clues: Tell or show someonematched clues: Share something with someonematched clues: Something good happened
Content
Nothing may need changing right now, and that counts as a feeling too. Try: Stay with it for a bit longer.
group: emotionalmatched clues: Comfortablematched clues: Warm / cosymatched clues: Relaxedmatched clues: My brain feels calmmatched clues: Enjoy this for a bit longermatched clues: Keep doing what I'm doingmatched clues: Nothing obvious happened
Connected
Being with or near someone may be part of what feels good right now. Try: Stay close a while longer, or tell them you're glad they're there.
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Safe
Where you are may feel okay to your body right now. Try: Notice what makes this spot feel okay, so you can find it again.
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Anxious
Your body may be bracing for something it is not sure about. Try: Slow your breathing out longer than in, or name the one thing you're waiting on.
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Frustrated
Something may be blocked or harder than you expected. Try: Step away for a few minutes, or make the next step smaller.
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Sad
Your body may be carrying something heavy or a loss of some kind. Try: Let the tears come if they want to, or sit somewhere soft for a while.
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Angry
Your body may be reacting to something that felt unfair or unsafe. Try: Move the energy out safely, or wait a while before responding.
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Scared
Your body may be trying to protect you from something. Try: Get somewhere that feels safer, or bring one trusted person close.
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Disappointed
Something may not have gone the way you hoped. Try: Give yourself a moment before making a new plan. Nothing needs deciding now.
group: emotionalmatched clues: Heavymatched clues: Tearymatched clues: Something changedmatched clues: I was looking forward to somethingmatched clues: Change the planmatched clues: Stop what I'm doing
Lonely
Your body may be asking for connection with someone. Try: Send one short message, or sit somewhere with gentle company around.
group: emotionalmatched clues: Wanting to be close to someonematched clues: Be near someonematched clues: Tearymatched clues: Heavymatched clues: Someone nearby while I do it
Confused
There may not be enough clear information yet for things to make sense. Try: Write down the one thing you're unsure about, or ask one simple question.
group: emotionalmatched clues: Hard to thinkmatched clues: I don't know what I wantmatched clues: I was asked a hard or broad questionmatched clues: I didn't know what was expectedmatched clues: More informationmatched clues: Someone to help me work it out
Unsure
Your body and brain may not be giving a clear signal right now, and that is okay. Try: Rest, have a drink of water, and check in again a little later.
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