Other forms: groundings
Grounding is bringing yourself back to the present moment. A grounding technique, feel grounded, grounding exercises.
The standard exercise is naming things you can see, hear and touch, which works by giving attention something concrete to hold. It is used for panic and for dissociation. Grounding also means a basic training in a subject, and in electricity it means an earth connection. Note ground.
1noungroundingBringing yourself back to the present moment.
“Her therapist taught her grounding techniques, like pressing her feet into the floor during a panic attack.”
2nounbasicA basic training in a subject.
“The course gives students a good grounding in grammar before they study literature.”
grounding is a steadying, or a basis.
Middle English
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by surface analysis, ground + -ing. ground comes from Middle English ground. From Middle English ground, from Old English grund, from Proto-West Germanic grundu, from Proto-Germanic grunduz. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond and German Grund. to punish Compare (bring) down to earth, come down to earth.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA