Grounding In Times Of Distress

This is a 10-minute guided grounding practice for when you are feeling distress, overwhelm, physical pain or just need to anchor to the present moment. You could also use this to help you unhook from unhelpful thinking.

This practice aims to be trauma-sensitive and does not involve any breath holding or breath extending, it also does not include any focus on internal sensations or emotions. Instead, this practice helps you to focus on your feet, hands, and body as a whole and uses your sense of vision and hearing to help ground you to your present moment.

All of the suggestions in this guided mindfulness practice are just suggestions and I encourage you to honor what feels best for you and maybe explore other ways of grounding that might be more helpful to you.

Music: Fireflies by Ambient Boy

Reviews

Sometimes I am not able to use breathing techniques, it makes my anxiety worse, so I really appreciated this. Thank you.