Explore The 5–4–3–2–1 Coping Technique For Anxiety
Are you out of focus? Try grounding yourself with this easy and innovative practice.
Anxiety can be debilitating. At times I witness the effects on a close family member who becomes overwhelmed, cannot breathe, and loses their ground. We hear the phrase “find your ground” quite a lot. But what does this statement mean, and how can a person recoup themself once again? The 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 technique addresses this challenge.
First, let’s explore the definition. Grounding yourself is the process of balancing your physical, emotional, mental, and energy state and reconnecting them. Therapistaid.com states:
Grounding techniques help control these symptoms by turning attention away from thoughts, memories, or worries, and refocusing on the present moment. In this article, you will learn four powerful grounding techniques for managing the symptoms of trauma.
In Gestalt psychotherapy, we talk a lot about the figure-ground relationship. According to this principle, people tend to segment the visual world into the figure and ground. The figure is the object or person that is…
