How do I keep myself grounded?
Well the short answer is I don’t. Sad it is, but at least honest. I don’t know which one is the more sad statement the one i already mentioned or that i’m like the most people regarding this issue. I bet it’s the second. Within our rushing world it’s quite hard to stay grounded after a certain age, and it’s even harder to get grounded again. Grounded people are not a good customer of capitalism, therefor it’s not even a highlighted objective. Except for those who started to awaken.
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Suppose I’m, then how would i keep myself grounded? Well that’s the hard work, not hard daily, but to sustain it for a lifetime it is. I would say its based on a routine, daily -, weekly -, monthly-, yearly routines. And that’s the key, in my opinion it’s more about keeping it rather achieve it, because become grounded just means that you are on the right track, and it’s not the goal line, just the sign what you are doing is the way to live.
And now about the routines, what i think are the keys:
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The daily routines:
- healthy food intake regularly
- drink enough water
- keep your place in order
- go to bed in time, wake up early
- be kind
- be grateful
- in case of need, try to help
The most important thing is to have a healthy body, and since we are what we eat our overall health starts with the food. Fruits and vegetables should be the base of our diet, weather you are eating meat or not! Water is the cleaning tool for our body, try to wash your dishes with fraction you regularly do, the result’ll be different. So the cleaning process, it’s matter if your environment is kept in order, or not and messy, it’s affecting you more than you think.
The weekly routines:
- read
- sport, physical practice
- do what you enjoy to do (your hobbies)
- plan your next week
- talk with your loved ones, care about them
The weekly stuff is about to spend some of your time useful for your brain and body, to sustain to improve, and to live your life the way you want to by planning, not just flowing with the tide. If you care with people are close to you, anytime you need to be taken care, someone ‘ll be there for you!
The monthly routine:
- move out! to the nature, if hiking is not for you, just go for a long walk, but not in the downtown.
- Have your “me” time
- live social life
Within this equation everything have got a role, the environment, the folks around you and yourself. Nature got an unseen power affecting us, so just let it recharge you, well you need to be there to let it work. The demand for being alone or with others are different for everyone, but the needs should be served. Lack will cause desire, unserved desire will move away from your path.
The yearly routine:
- make plans for yourself a few years ahead
- watch over your progress compared to your previous plans
- learn new skills, and improve acquired ones
It’s about the improvement, the hardest to stay steady therefore in my opinion it’s a two-way road, wether you improve or degrade, it’s our choice. Degrading is the easy path, the lazy path…
The most important thing, what should be constant: love yourself! If you do, you’ll care about your health and your body, your environment, people around you, and your future. If you’ve found your peace you’ll enjoy the time spent with others and yourself and about the future you’ll have an optimistic point of view. So how can you start your grounded journey? By acceptance, this is the first step on a hard but worthy path.
The extra routine: yoga ! Be mental (meditation), or physical, Yoga is grounding!
At the middle of this year i lost my track, i became depressed and started lo live my life kind of the opposite as described here. I needed time to heal, and to start thinking like this once again, it was a tough time and careless, but everyone can go through periods like this and get back on the track!
Thanks for reading, and your thoughts are very welcome!
Tell this to my brother. The last time he visited me was more than one year ago. And he rarely even call me on the phone. I visited him this year at least twice, but he do not care to visit me. Not even on my birthday. Not even after I told him on the phone that this felt bad (at least he said sorry), and I said that it would be good, if he could visit me. And we live only approximately 14 km from each other in the countryside. We travel to and from the nearest city with the same bus, just usually not in the same time. But there were few occasions, where we were literally on the same bus. We also randomly met each other in the city a few times.
I’m sorry to read what you’ve wrote about your brother. I would say it’s not me who should tell him this, but you! Not in a lecturing manner, more likely in a form from your perspective, you should call him, care about him, while telling him it’s important for you since you are family. Everything we do are affect our lives, if you care about ppl, the caring ‘ll find you as well. It’s not an instant payback, sometime it let us wait, but eventually it ‘ll happen. There is a chance the payback will come from a different direction than you are waiting from, but i’m sure if you do your part the Universe ‘ll equalize the balance. Best you can do is put away your expectations in the first place, and just be the one who care about his brother. Don’t be mad at him, feel sorry for his ignorance.
Do you really/seriously think that I do not care about my own brother?
I helped him multiple times, even after he betrayed and left me in 2018. I sent him money multiple times for food. I regularly asked him to come back to our house. But he continued his financial rampage. We eventually had to sell our house. He continued to live with strangers, while I am struggling to pay high rent since then. I bought him a mug for his birthday. He (probably not intentionally) destroyed it, while he did not bought anything for me since years. I visited him multiple times, while he visited me only a few times.
He did not came to visit me even on my birthday. Not even later after I called him on the phone and I told him that this felt bad. At least he said sorry. I told him that it would be good if he could visit me in the weekend, but he did not even called me back, let alone came. He called me weeks later (on 2021.11.12, 02:55), in the middle of the night to tell me that he did not received a part of his pension-like income, and asked me if I received it. He did not called me since then. He did not visited me since then either. He call me and come to only when he have some kind of problem.
This is my brother.
Sorry i didn’t want to offend you with this, and i may have expressed it wrongly, but i wanted to say beside you care about him, you should tell him this as a fact that you care about him because you two are family and its important for you despite what he is doing. Based on what you have wrote about him, his value system is faulty, until that’s not changed, he will not either. You can’t do more than keep trying…
I both show (by doing things) and say that I care about him, but for some reason, he does not care about me. Nowadays he does not show it. Not even the slightest sign of it. But of course I keep trying. We are brothers. We grew up together, and both of us have multiple disabilities. We should live together again, no matter what he done in the past.
Thank you for the good discussion.
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Have a nice day. All the best. Greetings from Hungary.
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