- Username
- emilykay92
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 46w ago
Grounding
What grounding techniques do you all use?
What grounding techniques do you all use?
My favorite technique is to try and focus on your hand, it’s very hard to explain but you try and feel your hand with your mind or feel the presence of your hand. If you get really good at this try doing it with your entire arm, then try both arms, then legs. Eventually you can do it with your entire body.
Breathing, meditation, and self compassion. Breathing just deep belly breaths. Meditation I imagine a rope connected between me and earth. Compassion, I just tell myself “you’re safe, you are doing great, there is nothing to worry about other than living life.”
This is great: -Grounding Techniques: https://www.therapistaid.com/worksheets/grounding-techniques
My therapist gave me this.
Does anyone have any coping skills they really recommend or learned from therapy? I start therapy soon but until then I wanna learn how to manage this on my own.
Is there anyone out there who has tips and tricks or getting out of a spiral or preventing one. Lately I’ve been struggling with not giving in to my compulsions but it’s so hard. Any good advice or tips on anything reducing anxiety or spirals would be so helpful.
What do you all do when u have tried your tools and techniques and the panic has lasted for hours????
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