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.
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
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.
It… kind of bothers me the order that is in. Is that on purpose?
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.
Oh, no, don’t. It wasn’t a serious thing, just pointing out the weird 5 to 1, 1 to 5 thing.
Okay. I kinda see your point anyway. No worries either way.
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.
Counting down bothers you?
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
Exactly. The order is correct, the items are counting backwards, not forwards. It’s not hard to fathom.
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.
Makes sense. Just the:
1: 5 things
2: 4 things
3: 3 things
4: 2 things
5: 1 thing
Throws me off a bit.
Ah, that makes sense!