Ep 250. Channel Your Inner Hippie to Feel Grounded

Not Another Anxiety Show

Kelli Walker

Therapy, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Health, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Anxiety, Claireweekes, Counseling, Brenebrown, Research, Meditation, Panicattacks, Science, Selfhelp, Stress

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Join Kelli as she shares a few easy and accessible exercises to cultivate the ability to remain grounded in the midst of anxiety, anger, stress, etc. While grounding exercises are steeped in evidence-based science, you may need to tap into your inner hippie (you know she/he/they are in there somewhere!).

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0:00.0	Hey, guys, welcome to not another anxiety show. I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and today it's me,
0:18.5	myself, and I.
0:27.5	So let's talk grounding and how practical it is, even though it sounds pretty hippie-dippy.
0:42.3	So grounding is all about reconnecting with our body when stress, trauma, anxiety, overwhelm, self-doubt, worries, etc. Disconnect us from our self and the present moment. Grounding helps us regulate our nervous system and find calm. It also allows us to
0:49.0	cultivate the capacity for feeling secure, solid, and safe in the present moment without getting lost in sensations,
0:57.8	feeling, worries, thoughts, and memories. And with time and repetition, the grounding response
1:05.5	becomes an automatic habitual reaction to feeling triggered, anxious, panicked, and or overwhelmed.
1:14.8	It transforms the present moment and the body into a place of refuge rather than a source of
1:21.5	fear and pain. And, as you may have guessed, engaging in grounding exercises, stimulates, and tones, just like a muscle, the vagus nerve.
1:32.8	So it can do one of its most significant jobs, which is to downregulate and calm the nervous system.
1:39.8	And I'm going to share a fun fact because you have no choice here.
1:42.8	And that fun fact is the
1:45.1	biggest nerve is cranial nerve number 10. So there you go. Just in case you're at a Tuesday trivia
1:52.1	night and it comes up. Okay. So I am going to share two different types and examples of grounding techniques.
2:02.7	If you can, start with what's called a safety and reconnection grounding technique.
2:09.6	An example of that goes something like taking a breath in through your nose and making a long, low, voo sound during the exhale.
2:23.1	Voo is in Victor like this.
2:30.0	Voo. Boo.
2:45.4	Do not be afraid to channel your inner hippie here.
2:52.3	You know, the other day I was thinking how some people get tension headaches. I get tension stomach aches. And the other day I was feeling a tension stomach ache on the way to meet friends
2:58.2	at a local October fest. I mean, I went mostly for the homemade sauerkraut, but I digress.
3:06.5	Anyway, it had been a few days of that nonstop go-going,
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