Now, going back to the suggestions of taking a walk or having a cuppa, there are ways these can be done in a manner that helps someone to ground themselves. There are also ways that same person can do them that doesn’t help them to ground, at all. As an example, you can walk round a park quite quickly, not taking in any of your surroundings, stuck in your head with all those familiar distressing thoughts and strong emotions and feel no better or even worse for it. You can also walk around the same park with a mindful energy - paying curious attention to the colours, shapes, textures, plants and animals that you see along the way.