An exert from the "Grounding Tip" topic.... hope it helps.

What Are Grounding Skills?

Grounding Skills are interventions that assist in keeping a person in the present. They help to reorient a person to reality and the immediate here-and-now. Grounding skills are useful in many ways. They are particularly helpful with symptoms of dissociation. They can help a person prevent dissociating. However, they can be used to help re-orient oneself when experiencing intense and overwhelming feelings and intense anxiety. They help to regain one's mental focus. These skills usually occur within two specific modalities:

1.) Sensory Awareness
2.) Cognitive Awareness

1.) Sensory Awareness Grounding Skills:

Keep your eyes open, look around the room, notice your surroundings, notice details.

Hold a pillow, stuffed animal or a bell.

Place a cool cloth on your face, or hold something cool such as a can of soda.

Listen to soothing music.

Put your feet firmly on the ground.

FOCUS on someone's voice or a neutral conversation.

2.) Cognitive Grounding Skills:

Reorient yourself in place and time by asking yourself some or all of these questions:

Where am I?
What is today?
What is the date?
What is the month?
What is the year?
How old am I?
What season is it?
Who is the President?
List as many Grounding skills as you can.

Practice several grounding skills every day.

Construct a list of those which are most helpful and effective.


FULL LINK to the website: http://www.dreamstalker.org/wings/ptsd001.htm

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