Hello. Hope you're well today, whether you're out on a walk, doing the washing up, or just taking five minutes for yourself.

Thank you for spending a bit of time with me today. Now, I want to talk to you about something that seems quite simple, but honestly it can be really powerful.

And it's called the halt method. If you haven't heard of this before,

halt stands for hungry, angry, lonely and tired. And it's one of those little tools that's

easy to overlook as of how straightforward it is, as is so often the case with self-awareness.

The simplest ideas can be the most effective, really. So, HALT, Hungary, Angry, Lonely, Tired. Four states that make us feel a bit off

balance, a bit out of sorts, and if we're not aware of them, they can lead us into situations or

behaviours that don't really serve us. So, first up, hungry. And I do mean literally hungry.

Might sound a bit obvious, but when our blood sugar drops, it affects our mood. That's where we get

the hangary feeling from. That is a

real thing. We get snappy, irritable, even anxious. So if you find yourself getting wound up over

something minor, it is worth asking, when did I last eat something? But also, it's not just about food.

There is an emotional hunger to us too, a craving maybe for something else.

For affection, for recognition, for feeling seen and understood.

If that's not being met, that can nor await us as well.

So it is worth checking in, not just with your stomach,

but also with your heart. And then we've got angry. Now, anger's a tricky one, isn't it? A lot of

people are uncomfortable with it. We're often taught to suppress it or ignore it, but it's just

like any other emotion, like sadness or joy, it is telling us something.

So if you feel angry, ask yourself, what's going on underneath?

Are you feeling hurt?

Frustrated is something feeling unfair?

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