This week, to attain, maintain or regain your sense of wellbeing...
...practice mindfully observing your physical connection to your surroundings. At regular intervals throughout the day, pause and take a minute to notice each of the places your body connects to the environment and what that feels like.
Notice the feeling of your feet on the ground or your back leaning on your chair, the air on your skin, the sun or wind, the sensation of your clothing on your body, and other physical sensations that anchor you to the here and now. Notice that you are connected to the environment around you. Test out shifting your weight on your feet or in your chair, or stretching your body and notice how that feels. Reach out and touch something - a leaf on a tree, or the fabric on a cushion, for example. Notice that you can move your body when you want to, no matter how you are feeling.
Once you are comfortable with this practice, add Observing Physical Connections to your Personal Coping Kete for times of stress and distress, when you need to ground yourself and get present. This is often really useful for dissociation.
