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How I stay grounded when traveling #shorts

Name: How I stay grounded when traveling #shorts
Uploaded: 2022-07-24T11:15:03+00:00
Duration: 57 s
Channel: Dr. Nicole Cain
Description: Short YouTube video by Dr. Nicole Cain offering quick tips to stay grounded while traveling. It explains that travel increases stress and can amplify an…

24 Jul 2022 · 1 min

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Short YouTube video by Dr. Nicole Cain offering quick tips to stay grounded while traveling. It explains that travel increases stress and can amplify an Ayurvedic "vata" (air/un-grounded) state, then gives practical grounding techniques (find nature; close your eyes and imagine your feet extending like roots into the soil) and dietary recommendations (warm, vata‑tonifying foods/drinks such as golden milk, curries, and soups) to reduce anxiety.

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Traveling can be incredibly disequilibriating whether you're going across town or even across the country. And there's lots of reasons traveling can be stressful. You don't have things around you that are familiar, and so your brain and your nervous system are constantly surveying your.
Surroundings for danger.
The other reason is in Ayurveda, where they identify that travel can put you more into a vata sort of state. And vata is more air ungroundedness, distractibility, anxiety. And traveling can really amplify your vata. And so here's a couple of tips to help you get back to your grounded self. First is to try to just get away and find nature, whether it's a tree or a rock or something that's away from city life.
And imagine.
Yourself closing your eyes and.
Feeling your feet.
On the ground and.
Imagining your feet are extending like roots.
Deep into the ground and deep into the soil. Focus on vata tonifying food and drink so vata will be brought down and anxiety will be better. If you can focus on things that are warm, like golden milk, you could get those as a hot beverage at a lot of coffee shops. And then also warming foods like curries and soups and things like that can warm your vata and make you less anxious. Happy travels, my love.