Practicing Grounding Technique for Anxiety Management-3

Patient was instructed today upon practicing the grounding technique for anxiety management as follows: Grounding helps you to realize your surroundings and gain control of the current situation. Practicing grounding techniques can help gaining contact with the current moment. You can practice grounding technique by trying to verbalize the happenings of the day. You can start by describing the time you woke up, the menu on the breakfast you had, the flavor of the coffee [...]

Practicing Grounding Technique for Anxiety Management-2

Patient was instructed today upon practicing the grounding technique for anxiety management as follows: Grounding helps you to realize your surroundings and gain control of the current situation. Practicing grounding techniques can help gaining contact with the current moment. You can practice grounding technique by trying to verbalize the surroundings you are in. You can start by describing the color of the wall in front of you, the greenery of the park you are in, [...]

Practicing Grounding Technique for Anxiety Management-1

Patient was instructed today upon practicing the grounding technique for anxiety management as follows: Grounding helps you to realize your surroundings and gain control of the current situation. Practicing grounding techniques can help prevent losing contact with the current moment. Identify your 5 fingers of the hand with 5 of your close friends or family members and their personal good attributes. For example, you can consider the index finger as a friend or family member, [...]

Grounding Technique for Anxiety Management

Patient was today instructed regarding grounding technique for anxiety management as follows: Grounding is an anxiety management technique, especially useful with patients experiencing flashbacks. Flashback is a current day re-experience of a traumatic event that happened in the past, as a recurrent and intrusive thought, with an intensity, as if it were a real time happening. Experiencing flashback is a presentation of post-traumatic stress disorder, which typically occur during the patient’s waking state. Grounding helps [...]

Practicing Progressive Muscle Relaxation Technique for Anxiety Management

Patient was instructed today upon practicing progressive muscle relaxation technique for anxiety management as follows: Continue to perform deep breathing, by sitting down or lying flat in a comfortable place. Initiate the cycle of tensing and relaxing each muscle group, starting with the forehead. Make sure that you are not straining the muscle during the phase of building tension in the muscle. Tense the muscles in the forehead, by raising the eyebrows, as high as [...]