The crisis-period context
The 7 July 2020 bulletin thanks workers for helping protect health and safety. It explains mental wellbeing through thoughts, feelings and behaviour, and recognises anxiety, confusion, stress, sadness and anger during a crisis. This article presents the bulletin as historical material.
The four-step breathing sequence
The source’s exercise consists of inhaling for four seconds, holding the breath for four seconds, exhaling for four seconds, then holding for four seconds. It instructs readers to repeat the complete sequence five times.
Video resources and acknowledgements
Page 1 supplies CMSC breathing and muscle-relaxation videos through QR codes for Bengali, English, Mandarin and Tamil. Page 2 supplies HealthServe breathing and workout resources through two QR codes. MOM acknowledges the Covid-19 Migrant Support Coalition, Crisis Relief Alliance, HealthServe and Migrant Workers’ Centre. The original attachments preserve the scannable resources.
Official source
Written independently from official MOM source material.