Grounding Worksheet (PDF)

Bodily Awareness

Take a few deep breaths and pay attention to how it feels to be relaxed. Write exactly what you feel

Now press and rub your palms together. Feel the warmth and focus on how it feels when you press them against each other. Write down what you feel

Awareness of your surroundings

Focus on where are you, what are the things around you and what they look like

Hold on to something that is reachable for you and feels the texture, and weight and see the color of that particular thing

Pay more focus to what you are currently doing and what can you do to make it even better?

Get up and have a walk around the room or wherever you are and notice what is happening in the surrounding ( is anywhere around? What are people doing? Is there any noise? etc.)

Make a list of activities that you would like to do to keep yourself present in the situation.

1. ________________________________________________________________________

2._________________________________________________________________________

3._________________________________________________________________________

4._________________________________________________________________________

5._________________________________________________________________________

Reference

Bishop S. R., Lau M., Shapiro S., Carlson L., Anderson N. C., Carmody J., et al. (2004). Mindfulness: a proposed operational definition. Clin. Psychol. 11 230–241

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Please note: There may be a more up-to-date and editable version of this worksheet available here which may be more suitable to present to clients if you are a therapist or to use in a classroom as a teacher or guidance counsellor.

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