08/11/2024
🌳 The 5-4-3-2-1 grounding exercise is a mindfulness technique that uses your five senses to help you focus on the present moment and reduce anxiety:
✨ 5: Acknowledge FIVE things you see around you. It could be a pen, a spot on the ceiling, anything in your surroundings.
✨ 4: Acknowledge FOUR things you can hear around you. This could be any external sound, like birds tweeting, the traffic, someone speaking. If you can hear your belly rumbling that counts!
✨ 3: Acknowledge THREE things you feel. It could be your hair, the texture of your clothes or the ground under your feet.
✨ 2: Acknowledge TWO things you can smell. Maybe you are in your office and smell pencil, or someone's coffee. The smell of soap in your bathroom, or nature outside.
✨ 1: Acknowledge ONE thing you can taste. What does the inside of your mouth taste like—toothpaste, coffee, or the sandwich from lunch?
🌳 Notice how you feel different after this exercise.
🔺The Trust Triangle. This is one of my favourite articles that I share with kinesiology clients. The article is written in a business context, but the concepts can be applied to personal relationships, including your relationship with yourself. 💜
🔺The Core Drivers of Trust
So how do you build up stores of this foundational leadership capital?
In our experience, trust has three core drivers: authenticity, logic, and empathy.
🔺 People tend to trust you when they believe they are interacting with the real you (authenticity), when they have faith in your judgment and competence (logic), and when they feel that you care about them (empathy).
🔺When trust is lost, it can almost always be traced back to a breakdown in one of these three drivers.
https://hbr.org/2020/05/begin-with-trust
