This is a YouTube video titled "How To Ground Yourself" created in April 2020. It features a conversation between Ask AI Mark and another speaker discussing strategies for maintaining spiritual and mental grounding during times of disrupted routines, such as scheduling spiritual practices to create sustainable daily habits.
For people who aren't disciplined in the structure of their days and their lives and their routines, this can be a very unsettling time because we're all taken out of our normal routine and we don't have anything to replace them. So what can you share with people that could be helpful in this moment where people are used to going out and being in the world and going to their job and coming home and having a kind of a routine that they're used to and all of a sudden it's gone? What can they do? in this time to actually get grounded and connected to what matters.
The first thing I would recommend is take out your Google Calendar or your app calendar or your written calendar, whatever it is that you have that you use and schedule your spiritual practice. That's not something that I've typically loved to do because I've had the freedom throughout my life to be able to tune in when I felt like I needed it, you know, often typically around the same time of day, but it would always change depending on what was going on that day. Right now we can't do that. We have to create a routine that is sustainable. So I would say choose two spiritual practices, or at least one that you can put into your day right now, whether it be a meditation, whether it be listening to a guided meditation or an affirmation meditation, or, you know, just giving people an opportunity to really ground themselves in whatever way. Even if it's going for a walk and listening to a podcast like this, that can be your way of grounding. I don't want to decide for you what that it is. But I'm really strongly recommending that you schedule it in so it's a non-negotiable.
