**Preferably non-substance/drug

I’ll share a couple:

4 7 8 breathing

ears underwater

music/audio at slower speed (0.6-0.9)

Let’s hear em. I might want to do a series for various conditions or states so stay tuned and lets crowd-source this shit, enough of the “read my new/old 400pg tome for an introduction”. 🤮 Distill

  • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
    41·
    6 months ago

    5-4-3-2-1 grounding exercise

    Identify:

    • 5 things you can see
    • 4 things you can feel
    • 3 things you can hear
    • 2 things you can smell
    • 1 thing you can taste
    • ellabee@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      6 months ago

      if one of these just ramps up the anxiety, skip that sense and do the others. trying to pick 5 things i can see is. …not useful. …in a panic attack. but closing my eyes and doing the others does help. it took a very long time before someone suggested skipping sight to me, so i share the insight whenever this method is suggested.