In this informal, motivational video Aaron Doughty discusses how modern overstimulation—from long hours of screen time to constant digital engagement—leads many people to feel scattered and unfocused. He shares his personal journey from relying on Adderall for ADHD to seeking internal, non‑pharmaceutical ways to regain presence. Doughty outlines several grounding techniques that he finds effective: (1) physically connecting with nature by walking barefoot on grass, using trees as a metaphor for non‑resistance and acceptance; (2) engaging in vigorous physical activity such as running to shift focus from the mind to the body; (3) consuming large amounts of water and a daily green vegetable juice (kale, cucumber, spinach, celery) rich in live enzymes, which he says boosts energy and helps him feel centered. He emphasizes that grounding tools are highly individual—what works for him may not work for everyone—and encourages viewers to experiment with nature, movement, and nutrition to discover their own “permission slips” for staying present. The video concludes with a warm invitation for viewers to feel the grounded energy he is projecting, ending on a note of love and encouragement.
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Oh, sorry, didn't see you there. Just drinking my green drink, really grounds me in the moment. So today's video is about being grounded in the moment. How do you go from being overstimulated, which most of us through social conditioning have been, It's very normal to stay and watch television for like 6 or 7 hours a day, or it's very normal to be on the computer for long periods of time. I'm not saying these are bad things, but what I'm saying is it's very normal to do these things. I do a lot of them too. I'm on my computer a lot because I'm constantly working and I'm staring at a computer screen, which is a lot of stimulation, a lot of different ways of kind of veering the focus. So the idea behind being focused in the moment is about understanding that you need to get down to the basics if you want to recalibrate and refocus yourself. So how do I do this? Well, I used to have ADHD. I took Adderall for many years growing up, which kind of makes you into like a zombie in a way, to where you're just really focused on whatever you're doing and kind of quiets you down, balances you out, makes you more normal. But the idea is that it's a crutch because you don't need anything outside of your body to make you feel a certain way. At least that's my belief. Now, once I got rid of Adderall, I had to do a lot of things to get me into the moment, um, or to get me to not feel that way, to feel more focused than using pills or anything other than that. So what I did was, is I found different ways of getting into the moment and that involved having different levels of tools. So one of the tools that I used was being able to be grounded and be centered into the present moment. The way that you do that is by understanding that there are different things that may work for you. For some people, that might involve running, using a lot of physical activity to get them out of their head and into their bodies. But for me, what I did and what I realized is that if I would just get on grass and get barefoot, I was then able to really just center myself into whatever I am focused on or center myself into the moment. Now, the other benefit of being in like a park like this is if you look around right now, you'll notice that there's a lot of trees. Now these trees are very beautiful to look at, but also they represent life. They represent to me non-resistance, because if you look at a tree, if it is a little bit windy, the tree may sway a little bit, but the idea is that it's not resisting. It's not resisting the wind. It may bend a little bit because it's flexible in who it is, but at the same point, it's just allowing itself to be. Now, in the same way, when we get grounded in the moment, we can realize that the things that happen in our life, the things, the situations that happen, we can choose to either look at it, resist what it is, try for it to be something else, or we can allow it to be what it is. But we can even— I mean, we may look at whatever's happening in our life and say, I don't prefer that, but you still need to allow it to be in order to then transmute it to something else. So the idea is that I used nature, I used being grounded as a permission slip, as a tool for me to really embody the present moment. So, uh, it is about finding out what works for you. It may be what I'm doing may help, may work for you, may not, but find out what that is. Find out how to reground yourself. I find that being grounded or, uh, the things that always ground me into the moment are always the most basic things. I drink a lot of water. I drink this green drink right here. I drink like 6 of these a day. It's full of just a whole bunch of different type of vegetables— kale, cucumber, spinach, celery. All of these things have live enzymes. For me, it's something that makes me feel amazing. I've had more energy than I've ever had in my life, but also it helps ground me into the moment because I'm putting live foods into my body. It makes me feel good, and then it's easier for me to really just embody this moment. So the idea is to find out what works for you. It may be that you're able to walk around in nature and enjoy yourself. It may be that that doesn't do it for you. So maybe you need to run. Maybe you need to get yourself into some physical, like, activity in order to get to that state. But the idea is to find out what that is for you. For me, grounding myself has been one of the tools, one of the permission slips I've used to to get to the place to where it's really easy and free-flowing for me to go from being scattered to then where I put my focus to being in the present moment, to looking around and knowing that everything is in perfect order. All right, that's it for today. I hope you guys enjoyed. Hope you guys feel this grounded energy that I'm just like shooting at you right now, or you can just focus on whatever's behind me and you can feel grounded in the moment too. So much love to you guys. You guys have a great day. See you next time.
