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Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, I want to talk

about easing into mindfulness with your five senses.

It's so important that we use the body to help us come back into the present moment and to get out of our head. So often the mind

is the problem and so we can really use our body as our way to ground ourselves and come back into what is most important,

the moment, the present moment, and we give ourselves that breath of fresh air. So we're going to use

our five senses to do that. There's lots of different ways to do it, but I thought I'd

cover a couple different ones today. There's a five senses exercise that I would like you to try to

memorize and do when you need to, pulling yourself back into your body.

So this mindfulness exercise is called the five senses exercise.

And the goal is to calm our mind

by using our five senses to focus on our environment instead of our thoughts.

So again, so five, we have five senses, we're going to do five different things.

And here are the steps that you'll need to do to complete this exercise.

I hope you have your journal's handy and you can jot it down or maybe you can have a good memory and you'll just be able to remember them.

You may already be doing this. It's a pretty common exercise, but I've run into a few folks recently who didn't know about this so I thought I would

cover it here on the show. The first is to notice five things that you can see.

We're going to use our sense of sight

to have five things that we can see.

And we're going to be very deliberate about this.

We're going to look around and become aware of where we are at,

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