Comment on Life of a therapist

• AlexLost@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Counting down bothers you?

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  • felsiq@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Step one has five things, and step five has one thing - I think what they’re reacting to is that the order of the steps being reversed would make everything line up

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    • AlexLost@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Exactly. The order is correct, the items are counting backwards, not forwards. It’s not hard to fathom.

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• Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think it’s in order of narrowing down your focus from the widest (vision, you can see things from miles away) to the narrowest (taste, happens inside your face). I believe this is part of what makes it useful as a grounding exercise.

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• frog@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s suppose to be done in that order so I used an ordered list. I don’t want to bother anyone so I’m going to change it to bullet points.

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  • TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, no, don’t. It wasn’t a serious thing, just pointing out the weird 5 to 1, 1 to 5 thing.

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    • frog@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Okay. I kinda see your point anyway. No worries either way.

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• ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s called the 5-4-3-2-1 technique, and it’s in that order because it easiest to find 5 things you can see, etc. it would be hard to find 5 things you can taste if it was in reverse.

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  • TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Makes sense. Just the:

    1: 5 things 2: 4 things 3: 3 things 4: 2 things 5: 1 thing

    Throws me off a bit.

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    • ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah, that makes sense!

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