When panic surges or traumatic triggers induce dissociation—where you feel detached from your body as if floating or trapped in a glass jar—cognitive techniques cannot reach the brain. As Dr. Bessel van der Kolk demonstrated in The Body Keeps the Score (2014) and Deb Dana outlined in Polyvagal exercises (2018), restoring safety requires bottom-up somatic proprioception. The Feet on Floor Grounding Tool provides a sensory sequence: pressing soles into the earth, sensing gravitational weight, wiggling toes, and rooting somatic awareness back into the solid, unyielding floor beneath you.
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