- green exercise
- Physical activity carried out in natural outdoor settings. It combines the mood benefits of movement with the calming effects of nature, and includes walking, gardening and swimming. What Is Ecotherapy: 5 Ways Nature Supports Recovery
- Grounding
- A technique that brings your attention into your body and the present moment through your senses or physical sensation, interrupting anxious or urgent thoughts. Managing gambling urges outdoors: 6 ways to stay grounded when cravings hit
- grounding techniques
- Physical and sensory exercises that anchor you in the present moment by engaging your five senses with your immediate environment. Outdoors, this means naming what you see, hear, touch, smell and taste to interrupt dissociation and rumination. What to Do After a Relapse: 4 Steps That Ground You Again
- shinrin-yoku
- The Japanese term for forest bathing, meaning to take in the forest atmosphere through your senses. It was introduced as a form of preventative health care in the early nineteen-eighties. What is forest bathing: 6 ways to try it in UK woodland
- therapeutic gardening
- Using growing and tending plants as a deliberate practice to support mental health and recovery, rather than gardening purely for food or decoration. Gardening for mental wellbeing: 5 ways to begin
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