5-4-3-2-1

Mar 15

Look For 5 Things You Can See: Take your time to really *look* and acknowledge what you see around you or out a window.
Become Aware Of 4 Things You Can Touch: Feel the shirt against your back, your glasses or the place your feet touch the floor. Maybe notice the sensation of gravity itself.
Acknowledge 3 Things You Can Hear: Don’t judge, just hear. The gentle hum of your laptop, voices in the next room, the wind. Also, note the space between sounds.
Notice 2 Things You Can Smell: If at first you don’t feel like you can smell anything, consider the subtle fragrance of the air around you, or your own hair or skin.
Bring Awareness to 1 Thing You Can Taste: The lingering suggestion of coffee or toothpaste on your tongue.

Presence -The 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique can help bring anxious mental energy back down, grounding and calming so you can release stress and focus again.
Patterns Disrupted - The brain simply works better when it’s relaxed. The emotional brain routes information to the unconscious and reactive parts of the brain. When calm your amygdala and hippocampus feed sensory information through the “higher” executive brain which leads to calm rational behavior and interrupt unhelpful emotional patterns.

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“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason.”
- Immanuel Kant
(German philosopher, 1724-1804)

Why it Works

5-4-3-2-1

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason.” - Immanuel Kant (German philosopher, 1724-1804)

Why it Works

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason.”
- Immanuel Kant
(German philosopher, 1724-1804)