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Quotes About Grounding

To combat jet lag, when you get to your destination go straight to a park, take your shoes off and walk barefoot. It's something to do with having your feet in contact with the earth - it's supposed to be grounding.
~ Emma Willis
I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else, it can be unhealthy. For me being a Christian has been invaluable: it simply means acting isn't the centre of my life.
~ David Oyelowo
My mother is an amazing vocalist and a lot of my grounding in music has come from her. She was a student of Lakshmi Shankar, my father's sister- in- law.
~ Anoushka Shankar
I enjoyed living in Canada, where my husband comes from, because I was treated like any ordinary person. I became a volunteer at my children's school; I went into the classroom. It was very grounding. I got sick of being famous.
~ Dolores O'Riordan
All professionals who make special use of their breathing as part of their work, such as opera singers, wind instrument players, dancers, actors, and martial artists, know the value of breathing from the belly and of "grounding" or anchoring their awareness in this region.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you're looking at a very long and lonely old age.
~ John Nettles
Czy zwróci?e? kiedy? uwag?, jak przyjemnie chodzi si? boso po piasku, trawie albo ziemi?Nie bierze si? to tylko z ulgi po zdj?ciu sztywnych butów albo zrzuceniu wysokich obcasów. Kiedy dotykasz pod?o?a bosymi stopami, twój organizm otrzymuj? dawk? pot??nych leczniczych elektronów.
~ Qing Li
I love waking up in my home and being with my children and my husband. And I get an enormous amount of satisfaction out of my work. I really love working. I said it: I love working. It really grounds me, and I like helping people.
~ Marne Levine
One has to be able at every moment to place one's hand on the earth like the first human being.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.
~ Bjork
I think the physicality of being an athlete or working out, it grounds you. It centers you.
~ Juliana Harkavy
When you come from a big family, you see that, growing up, you're learning how to share. Your sisters have got your back; you're not alone in this - 'We all support you!' Your family provides that; it gives you a sense of safety, and it's a very grounding feeling.
~ Gisele Bundchen
I have a very normal social group that I really feed off of. They ground me. They're super supportive.
~ Danielle Rose Russell
The words shot through Vivi's bones and blood and muscle, and her body relaxed, so that when her feet touched the ground they met the earth differently, as though they had found roots that reached deep down and anchored to something tender and undamaged.
~ Rebecca Wells
we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.
~ Julia Cameron
But time Ã¢â'¬Â¦ how time first grounds us and then confounds us.
~ Julian Barnes
But time … how time first grounds us and then confounds us. We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them. Time … give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.
~ Julian Barnes
My dad has never actually grounded me. He always tells my mom to do it. He tells her, "Miley was so bad today, you need to ground her.
~ Miley Cyrus
Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.
~ Nelly Furtado
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.
~ Luther Standing Bear
Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
~ Octavia Spencer
I think having good family and friends really helps to ground you.
~ Don Cheadle
Being in a relationship grounds you. You feel a sense of home.
~ Jonathan Knight
There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.
~ Terry Pratchett