Grounding and Coping with Anxiety
Hello Anxiety community!
Do you know that feeling of your heart beating faster in response to a stressful situation? Or perhaps, instead, your palms get sweaty when youre confronted with an overwhelming task or event? Having anxiety can be very hard to manage at times. It is important to find different tips and tricks in order to help ourselves ground.
I wanted to share some different grounding techniques with you all so that you can try them out and maybe one of them can work for you. Not one technique works for everyone and what I have found is that it goes by trial and error until you find the one that works best for you.
➤ 5,4,3,2,1 Is a grounding exercise that helps bring us back into the present moment and focus on what is currently around us.
➤Using Affirmations can be another helpful trick in coping and grounding with your anxiety
➤ Meditation is another grounding technique that can be useful to help cope with anxiety
➤ Breathing is another way that you can cope with anxiety for some you may know it as square breathing
➤ Writting down your thoughts can also help to release the tension that anxiety gives you and feel as though you are not holding them in.
➤ Learning what triggers your anxiety can also be helpful in learning how to better manage your anxiety. Have you ever thought to yourself that triggers me to feel anxious? Sometimes taking notes of these feelings can be really helpful and it will allow you to know when it is occuring so that you can label them.
➤ Self soothing with your five senses can also be helpful.
So I ask you this:
What are some ways that you cope with your anxiety? Is it grounding or something else. Feel free to share!
@vickyp @zataarhoney