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In this vital video, Vida Lowe, a licensed psychotherapist in California, shares the most helpful and effective grounding exercises he teaches his clients and uses personally to manage stress and anxiety. If you find yourself in a state of fight, flight, or freeze, these techniques are essential for regaining control.

What You Will Learn:

This video focuses on powerful somatic techniques designed to shift your body from the anxious sympathetic nervous system state to the calmer parasympathetic nervous system state. The goal is to induce calmness, slowing the heart rate and breathing.

Vida Lowe guides you through a detailed body scan, which is key to learning how to notice when you're anxious in your body. You will explore where you hold tension—whether it's tightening in the tongue or throat, a racing heart, a tense stomach, tight shoulders, or clenched fists.

Key Grounding Technique:

• The Body Scan: Learn how to perform a quick check-in, starting from the top of your body (eyes, jaw, throat) and moving down to the shoulders, chest, stomach, legs, and focusing on noticing how your feet are touching the ground.

• Application: This technique is flexible and can be done multiple times a day (even setting alarms every two hours) while in line, at the grocery store, or at work—you don't even need to take off your shoes.

• Results: By utilizing these exercises, you allow your breathing to become slower and deeper, your heart rate to slow down, and your anxious thoughts start to slow down. This awareness is crucial for getting the body back in order and preventing the sympathetic state from causing general anxiety disorder or other health problems.

Becoming more aware of how we hold stress in our body is the first step toward automatically knowing how to ground ourselves.

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