How to Calm Anxiety or Panic Attacks- "Happy Safe Place" using 5 senses

Feeling anxious of the now and future can be overwhelming.  Feeling the pounding of your heart, worry and severe anxiety is a result of anxiety.

One best technique I've learned to help ease panic attacks and anxiety is called Safe Happy Place.- using your 5 senses, and this can be mix matched with practice.

Step 1- Imagine your favorite happy place, it could be the beach, time with a loved one, nature, being at home, its your happy place, so you can even imagine a new happy place (be creative or find something grounding for you)

Step 2- Using your 5 senses, see 👀, touch 🤚, taste 👅,  hear👂 and smell👃, you will visualize these things in your happy place and its best to be as specific as possible!

Step 3- Put into practice!  See- I imagine a beach 🏝️ (because it reminds me of home and when I'm there I feel at peace).  Next, I'll imagine 5 things I see at the beach: endless blue ocean waves, palm trees swaying, people laughing and jumping into the water, my toes in the sand, and the hot sun beaming on me.

Step 4- Touch 4 things- I can feel the gritty white sand between my toes, I can feel that the sun is hot on my face, I feel beads of sweat, when I dive into the ocean, I feel how cool and crisp the water is, and I can feel the wind breezing through, as the palm trees shake.

Step 5- Taste- 3 things- I can taste the salt air in my mouth, I can taste a cool drink of water as its so hot, and I can taste how refreshing and yet salt the ocean water is as I jumped in.

Step 6- Hear- 2 things- I hear the ocean waves swishing as it hits the edge of sand and laps back up into the sea, and I can hear laughter from the people around me having fun!

Step 7- Smell- 1 thing- I can smell the fresh air mixed in with the saltiness of the ocean and when I breathe in deep, I smell the sunscreen, sand, ocean and everything that reminds me I am safe and at home.

** Try this technique out, and you can mix and match the senses any way you want, it could be 5 things you smell, or 3 things you see- the choice is you! Update me on how this works for you!  Have fun in your Safe Happy Place**