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How The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Exercise Can Help You Reset In Minutes
The 5-4-3-2-1 is a practical grounding technique for anxiety. It’s designed to help those coping...
Written by: Pippa Thackeray
Written on: October 28, 2025
Pippa Thackeray
Writer
Pippa is a content writer and qualified Nutritional Therapist (DipNT) creating research-based content with a passion for many areas of wellbeing, including hormonal health, mental health and digestive health.
As a contributor to The Healf Source, she regularly attends seminars and programmes on a plethora of contemporary health issues and modern research insights with a drive to never stop learning. In addition, interviewing experts and specialists across The Four Pillars: EAT, MOVE, MIND, SLEEP.
In her spare time, she is an avid swimmer, mindfulness and yoga lover, occasionally bringing a raw, honest approach to the topics she faces. You may also discover some personal accounts of eye-opening wellbeing experiences amidst the reality of a disorientating, and often conflicting, modern wellbeing space.
- 1. Why grounding works when anxiety spikes
- 2. What is the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique?
- 3. How it helps the brain and body
- 4. 5-4-3-2-1 Step-by-step: Try it now
- 5. When to use this technique
- 6. How to deepen your grounding practice
- 7. A quick script you can screenshot
- 8. When 5-4-3-2-1 can feel difficult
- 9. Variations if senses are tricky
- 10. The bottom line
- 11. The 5-4-3-2-1 method: Common questions
