Questions about the Grounding Techniques poster

What’s on the Grounding Techniques poster?

15 entries in 4 groups. Educational reference. If anxiety is persistent or disabling, speak to a clinician. 5-4-3-2-1: 5 things you can see, 4 you can touch, 3 you can hear, 2 you can smell, 1…; Physical: Cold water on the wrists or face, Press feet firmly into the floor, Hold so…; Breathing: Longer out than in, 4 in, 6 out, for two minutes, Do not force a deep breath; Cognitive: Count backwards from 100 in sevens, Name the date, place and time, Describ…. Practise when calm. A technique first attempted during panic is much harder to use.

Who is the Grounding Techniques poster for?

Grounding Techniques belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning sleep & mind can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Grounding Techniques poster?

These interrupt a spiral. They are not treatment, and they work best when practised beforehand. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Grounding Techniques belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Grounding Techniques?

Attention, Breathing Techniques and Burnout sit alongside Grounding Techniques in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AttentionBreathing TechniquesBurnout

Is the Grounding Techniques poster free to download and print?

Yes. Grounding Techniques downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Grounding Techniques poster print at?

Grounding Techniques is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Grounding Techniques loses nothing.Printing guide