Stress Reset · Day 2
Five senses
Five things you see, four you feel, three you hear, two you smell, one you taste.
- 5 min
- Voice and captions
Spinn Originals play softly under the voice and step back while it speaks. If a workout is playing its soundtrack, that carries on instead.
Read the words
- This is Stress Reset. A quick way back to the present, using your senses.
- Stay sitting or standing, wherever you are. Keep your eyes open to start.
- Take one slow breath in, and a long breath out.
- Look around and find five things you can see. Name each one silently. A wall. A light. A shoe. Take your time.
- Now four things you can feel. Your feet in your shoes. The air on your skin. Your back against a seat or a wall. Your hands.
- Three things you can hear. You can close your eyes for this if it is safe to. Near sounds, far sounds, your own breath.
- Two things you can smell. If nothing stands out, notice the smell of the air, or your sleeve.
- And one thing you can taste. Maybe just the inside of your mouth, or a sip of water if you have one.
- Now let your attention widen and take in the whole space around you.
- Notice your breath, without changing it.
- If your mind has gone back to whatever was stressful, that is understandable. Come back to one thing you can see.
- Then one thing you can feel.
- Then one thing you can hear.
- Run through it once more if you like, a little faster. Five, four, three, two, one.
- Now rest for a few breaths. Let your eyes settle on something steady.
- Feel your feet on the ground.
- When you are ready, carry on with what is next. Your senses are always there to come back to.