The Practice of Groundedness

Ease manifests when you are fully in the moment, letting things happen on their own time, neither forcing nor rushing your process.

Start with small chunks of distraction-free time, even twenty minutes, and gradually increase the duration. Psychologists call this process exposure and response prevention, or ERP.

Push, push, push. Go, go, go. Never satisfied. Never enough. Relentless drive and intensity aimed toward whatever is next.

Cacioppo and other experts define loneliness broadly, as a desire for connections that you do not have.

A regular movement practice teaches you that breakthroughs do not happen overnight.

don’t know who you are, but apparently you can make me hurt. You can make me suffer. But I’ll tell you one thing you cannot do. You cannot make me turn away from my own experience.

into a common trap. He was spending a lot of time

Take a few moments after a fully present period to reflect on your experience.

Just pay close attention to how you feel during and after this happens. Odds are you’ll feel good for a bit, but then, as with eating too many chocolates, you may begin to feel lousy.

We need to recognize and see clearly when we veer off the path. And we need to show ourselves the understanding and kindness required to get back on—again and again and again. Until we attempt to apply them, the principles of groundedness are completely intellectual, nice and tidy in our minds. But the real world is messy. Putting into practice the