Relaxation

Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Progressive muscle relaxation is a relaxation technique that reduces stress and anxiety in your body by having you slowly tense and then relax each muscle. Progressive muscle relaxation can provide an immediate feeling of relaxation, but it’s best to practice frequently.

How to do Progressive Muscle Relaxation

15 Minute Guided Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Progressive Muscle Relaxation Script

Grounding Techniques

Grounding is a technique that helps keep someone in the present instead of dissociating, spacing out or shutting down. These techniques can help reorient a person to the here-and-now and in reality. Grounding skills can be helpful in managing overwhelming feelings or intense anxiety.

Interested in how to use grounding in your everyday life? Then watch this video to learn more!

A simple grounding exercise for managing anxiety and triggering the parasympathetic response. This simple activity can help you feel calm by giving you a practical way to use your 5 senses to remind your brain that you are actually safe.

It's easy to feel anxiety and stress, especially with everything going on in the world today. This video demonstrates the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Grounding Technique to help you work through your stress and anxiety. This proven method will help calm your mind and bring your focus back to the present.

Grounding Skills for Anxiety, Stress and PTSD

Therapy in a Nutshell has developed this free course which teaches you how to turn on your body's natural calming response, the parasympathetic response, and train your mind and body to calm down, relax, and turn on the "rest, digest, and heal" response.