Not only did participants have fewer trauma-related thoughts, but the training increased their feelings of self-worth. And in some cases it’s good to bring up the memory because you want to learn not to respond to them. But if they’re coming up in a stressful way, maybe not so much,” she said. It’s described as an almost alien feeling — that you’re looking in at yourself from the outside. “Grounding is really just being able to put yourself in the present moment in a way that’s not threatening and that’s calming,” she said.

Source: New York Times September 28, 2018 19:57 UTC