Grounding: Tricks for Anxiety!

Feeling overwhelmed due to feelings of anxiety and stress? How do we cope when life feels like its moving too fast and its causing us to panic or to lose control?

In this episode of Therapy 101, Lisa Baker talks about some powerful in the moment techniques you can use to reduce feelings of stress and anxiety. These tricks will help you slow down and take a breath while regaining a sense of control over your emotions.
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[elizabethcabida]

Stop, take a second, take a deep breath. And look around you for:

5 colors you can see
4 things you can feel
3 things you can hear
2 things you can smell
1 thing you can taste

[Tummyachesurvior]

I just had a realization of why it’s so difficult for me to properly ground myself. I used to count the ceiling tiles when I was anxious in school and I was always reprimanded for “being distracted” or “daydreaming.” I was basically conditioned to believe that grounding is wrong by my teachers.

[guywebster]

Lately Ive had really bad anxiety and heart palpitations. Its scary. I notice these grounding techniques do help. So does talking about it. The very act of writing in the comment section for example..

[Med_Adminworker]

Thank you so much. Thank you. I’m coming down right now. You are helping me. Reconnecting with my life and surroundings. Thank you all. Was having panic. Please remind me never to touch marijuana or stress out too much again. Thank you for calming me and bringing me to earth.

[eh]

Your voice and manner of speaking are very calming.
I think you made a very good career choice!

[EricFN-CLUB.]

Thanks for beautiful advise amazing thoughts ❤

[shelbyreece]

Thank you so much. I’ve been dealing with severe anxiety and I haven’t been able to start with a therapist due to long waitlists. I’m grateful to have these techniques to slow myself down.

[nusratjahan]

How do I get rid of that uneasy feeling of impending doom in my pit? It really makes me feel dissociated.

[princyjain]

Can't even able to move my body... Doing a simple task like looking for 5 things is too much.

[styrowrld]

I’ve always had anxiety, but recently it has become extremely severe and it interferes with everything I do. It’s to the point where I have anxiety attacks daily and sometimes it feels like they last the entire day. In case that wasn’t bad enough, I have Tourette’s, which if you didn’t know, get’s worse with any strong emotion, especially anxiety. It feels like a downward spiral because I get anxious, start ticcing more and wonder if people are giving me weird looks and even if I’m not in public it still makes me more anxious, and then because I get more anxious I tic more and get more anxious and so on. A lot of nights I can’t even sleep because I’m ticcing so much. I don’t know what to do

[piffdaddy]

gives me anxiety watching this video ... some people are just not meant to be on camera.