MINDFULNESS GROUNDING EXERCISE AT NEW TIDES COUNSELLING

Combining mindfulness, grounding and breath can be a powerful way to work with anxiety or to regulate difficult emotions or the response of our nervous system following trauma. Use grounding to practice mindfulness or use grounding to bring calm to interrupt a cycle of anxiety or trauma responses.

This grounding exercise can help you stop the cycle or anxiety, panic, trauma responses, or rumination.

Mindfulness and Grounding Exercises

Grounding Exercise

We always have 3 tools at our disposal: the ground holding us up, our breath, and ability to shift our posture and position (to some degree!). Explore grounding using these 3 elements for a few breaths each to shift your attention into your body and away from anxiety, thoughts or trauma responses and find yourself in a more calm, grounded place.

For a printable version of this exercise, or for more grounding and emotion regulation tools, please visit our blog.

Disclaimer: These mindfulness exercises are not intended to be used as a substitute for counselling or therapy. If you are experiencing ongoing or distressing anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation or are in any other form of distress, please seek the support of a Registered Clinical Counsellor or Psychologist.