Help to Ground Oneself

[trust.plants]

There's a long, complicated story behind all this. But, essentially, being a stupid teenager who was impulsive and blind, I severely abused LSD in the past and now my perception is completely changed. It's hard to settle into, as I'm dealing with other emotional turmoil at the moment.

Mainly, I want advice and discussion.
I often times find I get too carried away with the concepts and things that my experiences with LSD have helped me learn. I'm often on the brink of things that could be "spiritual" or "enlightened", things that are real and true about death/life, and things that are blatantly not true and what most people would call "crazy".
I've seen it happen in people I love and I want to be grounded and connected with this world. I will always have a deep love and respect for psychedelics; they are beautiful tools to help us navigate this plane... when not abused. I know that I've overused them for the time being, however.

Does anyone have any advice to ground oneself? I often find myself talking about weird events that happened on LSD and I'll verbally talk myself out of them, convince myself that it was just an effect of the drug. Sometimes the lines between reality get a little too blurred, and I'd like to see if I can do anything about that. Reality checks, essentially.

 

[GrymReefer]

Honestly, take a deep breathe and just stop over-complicating your vision of the world. Just live. If you consistently sit back trying to decipher the paradox that is life itself then one day you may realize a lot of time has went by, but nothing was ever accomplished. Just my two cents.

You definitely seem to be having a conflict within yourself and/or your environment. Sort this out and try to explain exactly what you are trying to accomplish. You say you want to be grounded? I would assume the "ground" is a verb and from that I'm taking it that you want to feel more in tune with the world around you? Enlighten us with your thoughts in a more detailed manner. We may be able to offer some opinionated advice on our own worldly views, techniques to staying connected and in touch with the changing habitat that surrounds us all.

 

[herbavore]

This may sound simplistic or even trite (I hope not) but have you ever gotten into gardening? Digging in the dirt, nurturing plants, simple tasks like weeding and watering and the more exciting ones like deciding what to plant where and what plants do well together--it's a very engaging world and it's really primal. I can be in a really weird space in my head but when I go out and actually start messing around in the garden I ended up feeling very grounded.

 

[GrymReefer]

^Best advice.

I'm now pondering the thought of gardening myself. Sounds pretty fun to honest.

 

[trust.plants]

I have a friend who recently had a psychotic break on LSD. He had a predisposition for some disorders that I believe have something to with what happened. Since then, he's been struggling more with his paranoia. He is my best friend and him, along with my boyfriend, have tripped with me many, many times. I'm deeply connected to the both of them and when they are suffering, I sense that vibration from them. He assures me he's okay but I can sense his dread and he says really worrisome things sometimes, i.e. "There's someone staring at us through the window", "there's a cop", "there's [friend's] mom", seeing and hearing things that are not there. He is spiritual, as I came to be with my use of these, but extensively. And he was not any kind of spiritual before. Talks about slowing down his heart rate to 20BPM to see how it effects the others in his vibrational radius. He has a very, very hard time distinguishing what's real from what is not on occasion. I have tripped once since all of this, and it was coincidentally one of the highest doses I've taken. I experienced incredible things at first, but the more I thought about my friend (who, again, I am deeply connected to and whose presence I feel often) the more uncomfortable I became. I was with my boyfriend in our house, but was extremely paranoid about being disturbed by the other person living in the house. I had a trip similar to what his "final" trip was, but when the trip was over I was okay and I recognized that it was, truly, just a bad trip.

I guess I'm mostly anxious now because I don't want to become like my friend, though I have no predispositions to worry about that I am aware of. All I do is worry, worry, worry. It's effecting my everyday life and my trips.

By grounding, I do mean connecting and becoming more in tune with this physical world. The more I am connected in every day life, the more comfortable I feel letting go when I am tripping.

 

[trust.plants]

Funny you mention that! I asked around today, out of the blue, for garden pots so I could propagate some of the succulents around my property when I was looking for something to do. Synchronicity is something I have become hyper aware of thanks to my psychedelic experiences.
I've never really gardened in the past but have always loved plants.
Yesterday I went for a 4 hour walk in a beautiful park and I came out feeling much calmer and more at ease. I've been craving outdoors for a few weeks now.
Thank you very much, your advice was wonderful and much appreciate. Not simplistic or trite in the slightest! It's something I'm going to incorporate more into my life.