How to Ground Yourself After Travelling

In another blog post I wrote about the post-travel blues. A great way to beat that, is by grounding. Keep reading if you want to learn how to ground yourself after travelling and be happy again.

The last months of my latest travels I was volunteering at a yoga retreat, so I learnt a lot about yoga, meditation and all things related. Thus, when I returned from my trip, I thought the best way to adapt was to keep meditating, do yoga and listen to mantras.

Turned out I was completely wrong.

Of course those things are great for you, but it wasn’t helping me to actually ‘land’ in my home country. I was still floating around, as some might call it. I ended up going to a foot reflexologist. At first I proudly told her all the things I was doing to try to keep myself sane, so I was quite surprised when she told me I had to ground instead of float. But it totally made sense! In my head I was still at the yoga retreat in Australia. I was still eating curries every day because it reminded me of the retreat and my time in Southeast Asia.

My body simply didn't know what was going on and where I was.

Walk on bare feet. Preferably on grass, soil or sand so that your skin comes in contact with the earth. This is also known as ‘earthing’ and has tons of benefits like eliminating jetlag. Click here to have a look at this very short video to understand the effect of earthing.
Eat seasonal fruits and vegetables. Mother Nature does a great job at providing us food that best support our bodies during that time of the year, and it will help your body know in what place, time zone and climate it is.
Go back to the place where you were born. This of course only makes sense if the place that you were born is in the same country as you are living in right now. But if it is in the same country, try to go back to your old neighbourhood. See where you grew up, walk around the playgrounds you used to go to, see if your primary school is still there. Relive those memories.
Wear your favourite colour every day. This can be as little as wearing a bracelet or necklace. Make sure that when you look at it, it makes you happy and reminds you of who you are.
Join a nature-related workshop, such as flower arranging. Not only will it bring you in touch with nature, but it will also bring out your creativity and give you some nice decoration for your home! Some other options could be: going to a national park with a tourguide or a food forest workshop.

Now, do you think these tips might help you?

The main things I did was walking bare feet and eating seasonal fruits and veggies. Especially since I was feeling so lazy and these tips seemed the simplest. And it has helped me big time! Have you got any others tips on how to ground yourself after travelling?